ESPN insider projects South Carolina's 'leader in the clubhouse' for next head coach
South Carolina’s coaching search may be winding down if the prevailing opinion around the college sports industry is accurate.
ESPN insider Chris Low said on “SEC This Morning” on Tuesday that Oklahoma assistant Shane Beamer is the “leader in the clubhouse for South Carolina….and he should be.” USA Today’s Dan Wolken also backed up Low’s comment with a tweet that said, “This is definitely the current thinking around the industry.”
Beamer has spent the past three seasons at Oklahoma. He was the cornerbacks coach at South Carolina from 2007-08, then served as its linebackers coach/special teams coordinator from 2009-10.
Several of the players Beamer helped recruit at that time have endorsed him as head coach, including former Gamecocks RB Marcus Lattimore and DE Melvin Ingram.
Beamer also in his career across the SEC was a graduate assistant at Tennessee from 2001-03, then was the cornerbacks coach/recruiting coordinator at Mississippi State from 2004-06. Beamer also served as the tight ends coach/special teams coordinator at Georgia from 2016-17.
Beamer, 43, is a native of Charleston, S.C., and is the son of longtime Virginia Tech head coach Frank Beamer.
In 2018, Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley told The Oklahoman that Beamer should be in line to be a head coach in he future.
“He’s got all the characteristics,” Riley said. “I can’t think of a reason in the world why he wouldn’t. I was impressed with the way he recruited. I was impressed with the way his players played. I loved his background, that he had coached so many different positions.”
H’s not even been a head coach…..hmmmmm. Another “experiment” ? Yes his name is Beamer, but his Dad was the great head coach…not him.
Jamey Chadwell is the one.
Maybe the Muschamp buyout and reduced revenue is influencing their decision. Someone who is solid, yet unproven is going to be cheaper than a rising star from a G5 program.
Chadwell’s offense is one of those spread-option offenses. That doesn’t work at all in the SEC. It’s a gimmick offense that belongs in the same divisions as Army and the rest of those triple option offenses. He’d be better off at Vandy if you want to put him in the SEC.
Just depends who he can bring in with him and can he recruit elite athletes? If we can’t rank in the top 4 in recruiting in the SEC we will just continue with more of the same.
I’m surprised that SC would stick with hiring from the defensive side of the ball, but you’re right regardless what side offense or defense, recruiting is the #1 thing that sets coaches apart, not the only thing, but the primary one no doubt.
Top four? Do you think Bama, LSU, A&M, Florida, and Georgia are leaving the SEC?
If you can’t run in the same recruiting circles you’ll never smell an SEC championship. You have to knock one of them off in recruiting.
With Florida down during South Carolina’s run 2010-2013; there was a window to make South Carolina the consistent SEC East challenge against Georgia but Missouri put a wrench in that plan. Spurrier gave up without letting the AD knowing and all that was built came crumbling down between 2014-2015. 2014 was actually a good year offensively but the defense couldn’t stop anyone.
Maybe Riley would join him to South Carolina as OC? LOL
He hasn’t been a head coach or a coordinator? Even under his own dad? Wow. When you have guys like Chadwell, Napier and Sarkisian in the running, the fact that THIS is their leading candidate just speaks further to the stupidity of the South Carolina AD. Oh well, as a Clemson fan I find it hilarious. Keep up the good work Tanner!
Swinney was an OC for one year….same year his HC got fired….
Actually he wasn’t even an OC, he was a WR coach. However, Dabo Swinney is the exception, not the rule. If you don’t agree then feel free to provide some examples of previous coaches who haven’t held any sort of coordinator position and have had success in college as a head coach. I’ll save you the time…there aren’t many if ANY. It’s this kind of thinking that leads to bad hires. More often than not you need to go with a proven winner. Chadwell has Coastal Carolina in the top 15. I’ll say that again…Coastal. Carolina. In. The. Top. 15. Again though, I don’t really care because it’s pretty fun watching Tanner make failed hire after failed hire.
Sam Pittman- Arkansas
Was an Offense Line coach at Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina and Northern Illinois
Urban Meyer went from position coach to HC. Nick Saban went from position coach to HC. They seem to be doing ok. How many former assistants have beaten Saban? It’s still 0 so maybe that doesn’t work. And don’t act like Coastal would be top 15 if this were a normal season, gimme a break.
So you’re justifying your ignorant comment? Keep it classy Clempsonite. ♂️
cuvince85…I actually agree with you 100% & what surprises me is that I am agreeing with a Clemson fan…but you are 100% correct. Chadwell has coached at three(3) SC colleges and knows the recruiting very well. When he coached at Charleston Southern I met him a couple of times & was impressed…very professional. Whoever is hired=the buyout should be One(1) year’s salary…no more.
Dabo understands that he cannot do everything & has a very loyal/quality staff, Venables in particular. The two(2) game-changing hires for Dabo were Chad Morris & Brent Venables & the rest is history. Then the elite recruits arrived. Your defense this year is not up to par with years past, but in the ACC is is good.
We’ll see how loyal Venables is after his son graduates.
Coastal Carolina has played a bunch of nobodies, unless you count the only Power 5 conference “Kansas” team, but seriously? Jamey Chadwell is also under investigation by the NCAA for recruiting and other violations. Not sure why anyone would want to come anywhere near the guy.
A little history lesson do you remember when cock slapped you for 5 years straight, yeah that was beamer who recruited them.
has Oklahoma had the kind of seasons and coaching where coaching models are sure to abound. Look at their scores.
If we set on not going after Freeze, and it appears we are, and I can understand it (even if I disagree with it), Beamer is the obvious next choice.
People keep talking about how he’s never had coordinator experience. But he’s the Assistant HC for a blue blood football program, has coached both sides of the ball in his career, has been a special teams coordinator, and is most respected for his recruiting coordinating. In other words, he’s actually more prepared to coach an entire team than most coordinators are. He also has ties everywhere and has left a slew of people who respect him wherever he’s been. He’s stated a few times that the HC job at USC is his dream job. Pretty much every player that was here while he was here (and he was the recruiting coordinator for the classes that gave us three straight 11-win seasons) have advocated for him getting the job. Oh, yeah, and he’s seen how his legendary father did it for all of those years, too, so it’s not like he’ll be walking in uninformed as to how to do it.
That’s he’s never been an HC is a bit scary, but the last time around, the guys who were out there for us to look at were Herman (a HC), Fuente (a HC), Muschamp (a former HC), RichRod (a HC)…and Smart – the only one to have never been a HC before, and the only one who’s been seen as successful. Just being a HC previously doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll be a successful HC somewhere else.
South Carolina can try someone else again if Beamer doesn’t workout in 3 to 5 years. Good Luck!