Watch: Beamer, "It's great to be home."

[FeatheredCock]

Just In: A first look at Shane Beamer arriving at the @GamecockFB ops building.

I asked Beamer how’s it feel to be back in Columbia and he told me, “It’s awesome. It’s great to be home.” Beamer will be introduced to the team with USC AD Ray Tanner at 3:30 @wachfox pic.twitter.com/f1tZyj6Z3r

— Mike Uva (@Mike_Uva) December 6, 2020



 



New South Carolina head football coach Shane Beamer arrived to Columbia by plane at 2 p.m. and made it to the Long Family Football Operations Center not more than 20 minutes later. Videoed walking from the parking lot to the front door of the two-year-old $50 million home of Gamecocks football, Beamer told WACH FOX sports reporter Mike Uva "It's great to be home."



Little history on new head coach Beamer



After putting the finishing touches on the Gamecocks’ 2011 recruiting class, which included No. 1 overall recruit Jadeveon Clowney, Beamer departed Carolina to become the assistant head coach and running back coach under his father, Frank Beamer, who is the winningest coach in Hokies' history. Beamer was heavily involved in all aspects of running the Hokies program from 2011-15. He led the Virginia Tech program as the acting head coach for the 2014 Military Bowl, a 33-17 win against Cincinnati, while the elder Beamer was sidelined with throat surgery.

In January of 2016, after the elder Beamer retired and Virginia Tech hired Memphis head coach Justin Fuente to replace him, Beamer joined the staff at Georgia as the special teams coordinator and tight ends coach under Kirby Smart. Beamer coordinated special teams for the Bulldogs 2017 team, which won the Southeastern Conference title and advanced to the national championship game of the college football playoff.

 

[FeatheredCock]

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[FeatheredCock]

Beamer has meet with players and assembling new staff. 

 

[Garnetandglad]

Here we go,  again.  I'm especially interested in his strength coach. Injuries have been killer!

 

[Cockyandproud]

Here we go,  again.  I'm especially interested in his strength coach. Injuries have been killer!

I don’t recall any of the coaches he’s worked under having chronic injuries, so hopefully he has the same philosophy. However, I do remember plenty of Gamecock fans complaining during Spurrier’s tenure that we didn’t practice realistically enough, and that led to injuries during games because players hadn’t been “toughened up” during practice. I guess that’s the nature of coaching; whatever you do is wrong, unless you go undefeated and score 100 or more points a game. 

 

[GregoryHouse]

I don’t recall any of the coaches he’s worked under having chronic injuries, so hopefully he has the same philosophy. However, I do remember plenty of Gamecock fans complaining during Spurrier’s tenure that we didn’t practice realistically enough, and that led to injuries during games because players hadn’t been “toughened up” during practice. I guess that’s the nature of coaching; whatever you do is wrong, unless you go undefeated and score 100 or more points a game. 

I remember the fans saying that but hearing the interviews from lawing and some of the players since, that seems like a myth

 

[Ledcock]

I don’t recall any of the coaches he’s worked under having chronic injuries, so hopefully he has the same philosophy. However, I do remember plenty of Gamecock fans complaining during Spurrier’s tenure that we didn’t practice realistically enough, and that led to injuries during games because players hadn’t been “toughened up” during practice. I guess that’s the nature of coaching; whatever you do is wrong, unless you go undefeated and score 100 or more points a game. 

I think Spurrier was trying to find some sort of balance there for practices.  I remember hearing him complain about losing too many guys before the seasons started due to injuries.

 

[cocky0]

So apparently Beamer is here through the announcement tomorrow, but he'll be heading back to OK to finish out the season.

 

[FeatheredCock]

Here we go,  again.  I'm especially interested in his strength coach. Injuries have been killer!

Reading the post. Under Ole ball coach and before never seen anything like I saw  in any other Carolina coach in my memory which goes back a long time. Under Muschamp seemed every year the heart of the team was out. 20 plus. Ido not know why but it did kill the team the past 3 years where they had no players to put on the field. Surly hope this is the end of that error. Got have your good players on the field. Really killed his teams which helped in his demise here and at Florida.