Gamecocks close to making hire? Shane Beamer's interview with South Carolina reportedly went well
Shane Beamer could be heading back to South Carolina for his first head-coaching gig.
According to David Cloninger of The Post and Courier, Beamer “remains a prime candidate” for the Gamecocks’ job, although there hasn’t been an offer made. However, things may be trending toward the Oklahoma assistant head coach coming to South Carolina, where he was an assistant from 2007-10.
Beamer interviewed for the Gamecocks’ opening on Friday, and Cloninger reported that numerous conversations between him and the South Carolina brass “have gone well.” As for Beamer, he feels “very good” about his chances to secure the job, per Cloninger.
However, sources told Cloninger on Sunday that there has “definitely not” been an offer made to Beamer at this point.
The Gamecocks remain in the interview process, but Cloninger previously reported that athletic director Ray Tanner would like to make a decision by Saturday.
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.
That’s not Beamer’s only experience in the SEC. He 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.
Tanner isn’t sure yet if they will be good drinking buddies, but he has promised Beamer if he has a mediocre start at USC he will get an extension with a giant buyout.
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LMAO, Beamer? You would have been better off keeping Muschamp…actually BoBo is better than both. Great job Ray!
Ehhh I don’t know. It’s critical to get someone who can recruit. If he can’t do that we will continue to suk. I don’t think he’s known for recruiting elite athletes.
Dude, you obviously know nothing about Beamer. He was the recruiting coordinator during spurrier run. He pulled in Latimore, Jeffrey, Shaw, Gilmore, etc
If you think the main reason any of those players came to SC was Beamer you are an Idiot. They wanted to play for Spurrier. There is a good reason why Beamer isn’t being considered for any other HC jobs. He isn’t qualified for a major P5 head coaching job at this time.
Who is? Re-treads like Muschamp, or maybe Harbough or Franklin if they get fired? Roll the dice, DBAP.
Maybe we could hire Sarkisian. Saban hasn’t lost to a former assistant, so that seems to be working for people too…
1.Billy Napier
2. Jamey Chadwell
Heck even Bobby Bentley has more wins as a College head coach than Shane Beamer.
Beamer has not been a head coach before & there’s a bit more to being a successful head coach than being an assistant or a coordinator, assistant head coach.
Jamey Chadwell from Coastal Carolina…he knows the SC recruiting area well and is offensive-savvy. But it’s Ray Tanner making the hire…so who knows ? If you want to win…hire a proven winner.
What I’m about to say makes me physically ill, hiring an unknown football acumen challenged worked for Clemson. If you told me Dumbo and Clemson is where they are now when he was hired id tell you to check into the Bull St Insane Asylum.
Granted Beamer has coached multiple positions on offense and defense plus being an understudy at several successful programs and coaches he has the football smarts maybe not like Saban but more than dumbo.
Yeah, I tend to agree with you.
So Tanner is hoping he’ll luck up like Clemson and hire the next Dabo from the ranks of unproven Assistant Coaches? Good luck with that. Apparently the Brad Scott fiasco is a distant memory
Tanner broke the bank giving Muschamp a huge buyout because he won with Spurriers players in Season 2 now he’s forced to consider unproven Assistant Coaches like Beamer and a HC from the Big South Conference named Jamie to be the HC at a Power 5 school in the SEC. Maybe Tanner is the problem. A great championship winning Baseball Coach and a mediocre AD