For the fourth time since his hire, Shane Beamer will reportedly have to replace an assistant
First it was Mike Bobo, then Will Friend and Tracy Rocker. Now Des Kitchings is on his way out the door at South Carolina.
Like Bobo and Rocker, Kitchings was expected to be a holdover from the Will Muschamp staff, but instead, new coach Shane Beamer will look for another running backs coach, according to a report from FootballScoop.
“Kitchings, a Furman alum who was South Carolina’s running backs coach for most of the past year, is positioned to leave the Gamecocks to join Arthur Smith’s Atlanta Falcons staff, sources on Wednesday told FootballScoop.”
Bobo, Friend and Rocker all left for Auburn, but Rocker has since taken a job with the Philadelphia Eagles.
Kitchings previously coached at N.C. State and Vanderbilt. He got his coaching start at Furman.
A little more than two weeks ago, Beamer address his hiring vision, including what kind of experience he looked for in assistants.
“I could have gone out there and hired 10 name head coaches 24 hours after getting the job at South Carolina and had the staff done with. I didn’t. That’s because I wanted to make sure I had this right and get the right 10 guys in here,” Beamer said. “I want guys that want to be here. I’m not going out there to hire some guy with a fancy name or because he’s coached in the SEC for 20 years. There are plenty of examples of guys like that where it hasn’t worked out for, a lot here recently. I want football coaches. I want great recruiters. I want great people. I want people that are hungry and driven and believe in this place like I do.”
We get our pick of whoever we want, our rb stable is one of the best in the country. #ChooChooMF
Well that sucks.
He was the best thing to emerge from that putrid Muschamp staff.
We haven’t been poached as much as Bama but more poached than clemson.
I like poached. A lot of things are great when poached. LOL
Every year same things from the delusional Chicken fans. All hype, no substance
It’s a miracle that South Carolina has beaten Georgia so many times despite having no substance. It must be a sign from God.
UGA has as many national titles in my lifetime as Carolina…really proud of us both for being straight edge and substance free…
Yea well…I think you only have one more championship than we do. So there.
For the record we have more conference championships than global blue blood notre dame.
Fewer people hate you than hate ND also. So there is that.
Not 100% true. One in my lifetime (1980) and another in ’42 (shared with OSU).
War year championships don’t count because the real men were over seas fighting.
90doog, you crack me up. Grow up and quit drinking the Athens Beer. It’s rotting your brain.
I thought Rocker decided not to go to Florida because “winning” and going to Miami? Or was that ANOTHER of our coaches? So now he’s gone to Phily to replace a FORMER Gamecock? And our current RB coach is going to the Falcons?? Lordy, with all those super duper coaches being poached you’d think we had just won the National Championship!
Rocker went to AU. Well before he didn’t.
Good one.
Eddie Gran would be a great RB coach for someone.
I agree. I’m not sure where though.
I have always liked Rocker. I remember when he played for AU and the NFL. That being said, his behavior has just been bizarre. He has burned his bridges at 2 SEC schools at a minimum, all of them maybe, and maybe even all college teams. It was totally unprofessional, not to mention disloyal.
I’d say three SEC schools.
That sucks. Kitchings is a very good RB coach.