Shane Beamer reflects on the QB depth at South Carolina since 2021, says he’s not worried about Mark Stoops
By Keith Farner
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South Carolina has seen a remarkable change at quarterback since last season, and now the Gamecocks enter this season with Spencer Rattler at the helm, and overall are in a much stronger place than this time last year.
As Shane Beamer said on the SEC coaches media teleconference, it’s more than a tad better situation.
“Yeah, I’d say ‘tad’ is an understatement,” he said. “Last year at this time, we were getting ready to go into a game with a guy who was a graduate assistant. … To have more depth in that room, more experience in that room, Luke Doty’s a year older, Spencer Rattler has played a lot of football … is definitely a much different scenario that in was last year.”
Beamer again was asked about the exchange with Mark Stoops after the Kentucky coach seemingly referred to the South Carolina program and Beamer in a negative light when describing building a program’s culture versus its climate.
“I know the situation you’re referring to,” Beamer said. “Mark said he wasn’t directing that comment at us. I haven’t spent much time thinking about it since that. We worry about ourselves. … We’re not for everybody, but one thing you can’t say about us as a program is that it’s an act. What you see with us is what you get. … We try to promote our program as best we can and have fun. To me, we want to be relevant.”
A former newspaper veteran, Keith Farner is a news manager for Saturday Down South.
