Video Very good listen today enjoy. LOCK ON GAMECOCKS: Have The Offensive Inconsistencies Affected Recruiting? | South Carolina vs Vanderbilt Preview

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LOCK ON GAMECOCKS: Have The Offensive Inconsistencies Affected Recruiting? | South Carolina vs Vanderbilt Preview
Nov. 04, 2022

On today's show, Andrew does an interview with SI's John Garcia Jr. on the latest regarding the South Carolina football recruiting front, and gives a preview on the matchup between Shane Beamer's South Carolina Gamecocks and Clark Lea's Vanderbilt Commodores. In the interview with John Garcia Jr., Andrew inquires if there's been any potential movement with 2023 hybrid defender and Auburn commit Terrance Love since the firing of Auburn head coach Bryan Harsin, if the ineffectiveness of Marcus Satterfield's offense is negatively affecting the Gamecocks on the recruiting trail, and if there's a way for South Carolina to get back in the recruitment of 2024 WR and recently minted Tennessee commitment Mazeo Bennett. With his game preview, Andrew looks at two key matchups, Vanderbilt wide receiver Will Sheppard versus Gamecock cornerbacks Cam Smith and Darius Rush due to the priority Sheppard garners in the Commodores' offense, and how South Carolina handles all of the external circumstances coming a off a tough loss to Missouri, with the potential to play in a gloomy and weird road environment without star running back MarShawn Lloyd. Lastly, he predicts who'll win the game and gives his reasoning behind it! Have The Offensive Inconsistencies Affected Recruiting? | South Carolina vs Vanderbilt Preview | South Carolina Gamecocks Podcast https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCulA...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piwrxc5b1WU&list=PLCJw9HdT-aay6By5WR7-Pkr6kdQmOhXnb&index=1&t=120s
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It's been another typical South Carolina Gamecock football season - actually we've seen this before with other Gamecocks sports too: predict for a modest/mediocre type results for the season in pre-season; have some unexpected moments of success (Kentucky, Texas A&M) that perhaps we didn't account for, which gets us raising our expectations in mid-season; then experiencing unexpected failures (loss vs Missouri when they were one of the games we felt safe to predict as a win in pre-season), and now it's all dismal gloom and doom during the last half of the season, when we are STILL on track to have the same type of season we expected to have, before the season began, LOL.

But I still think Beamer is running on the same sort of message to prospects that he used when he was recruiting coordinator under Spurrier: "come to South Carolina and be part of a program shift to the positive; be the first to establish a new brand of program at a school that isn't used to such, and carve your name in SEC history stone, while having more opportunities to play and star in than you would at other SEC programs". The mild successes can be shown to prospects as proof of what Beamer and his coaches are telling them - that we're almost there, but need 2-3 of those elite prospects to get it moving to where we get back to the kinds of teams we had from 2010-2013. A big obstacle to Beamer is that he is NOT Steve Spurrier, who brought some name-brand legitimacy as a proven head coach. There are still big questions as to can his staff get the program there, even WITH those top prospects.

Big positives is that Spurrier wasn't much of a big recruiter himself, while Beamer has the energy and positive vibe that sells the program, plus he WAS the guy who was most responsible for building those teams under Spurrier, so he brings a bit of credibility himself to say that he knows what he is talking about, and it isn't just used-car salesman coach's speak. If the program can also have some moderate to good success under him as head coach (back-to-back bowl seasons and a chance at back-to-back winning seasons), that can help prove his capabilities as the man in the captain's chair. Even Spurrier was putting out multiple 7-win seasons at USC until the recruiting started picking up. Shane has a very good chance with a win at Vanderbilt this Saturday for a second 7-win season in as many head-coaching seasons at USC, so he hasn't been too far off from the Evil Genius at this stage.....