Report: South Carolina 'finalizing a deal' to hire a new defensive coordinator
South Carolina is preparing to enter its first season under head coach Shane Beamer, who was a former Gamecock assistant under Steve Spurrier.
Now, as Beamer tries to put together his first South Carolina coaching staff, he’s reportedly nearing a major hire.
Per Yahoo’s Pete Thamel, the Gamecocks are expected to hire Western Kentucky DC Clayton White to the same position:
Sources: South Carolina is finalizing a deal to hire Western Kentucky DC Clayton White as the program's new defensive coordinator. White is a former assistant at NC State, Stanford and UConn and has been a sought after DC candidate the past two years.
— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) January 9, 2021
White doesn’t have any SEC experience, but he has had a lot of success at Western Kentucky since joining the staff in 2017.
Will Beamer be able to keep White around? The Gamecocks recently lost both OC Mike Bobo and OL coach Will Friend to Auburn.
Can he recruit?
NC is his speciality in recruiting. Briles award nominee 3 of the last 4 years. He runs a 4-2-5 which helped under the HBC. That means the stupid buck is gone and the spur returns.. Beamer has been playing 4d chess no SEC deep state retreads all the new hires come a wide spectrum, can’t wait to see what they do.
He should be able to at least get in the door. He has no SEC experiences but he has southeast experience. I think it is a pretty good hire. It isn’t a homerun but Beamer is not going to be able to hire a homerun until he has some success.
I’m in the camp of sec retreads don’t work could go down the list of sec hcs who were fired and asistantd who moved up in sec programs and failed. By your own definition Nick Saban would not have been hired at LSU because he had zero sec experience. These are young up and comers who are not safe but the difference is there isn’t one of the same old same old coaches. Bama never has to deal with taking risks on hires because you are the football king you get the pick of the litter we don’t same luxury.
It’s interesting how quickly Beamer hired Bobo’s replacement. It makes me think Bobo knew something about his relationship with the new coach that we don’t. I can’t help but wonder if the school pressured Beamer to keep him so they wouldn’t have to pay his buyout.
Bobo is a mercenary like muschump out for themselves. Bobo thought he could pull one over on the Shane Train and Bobo got railroaded and found out what #ChooChooMF really meant.