Shane Beamer details his plan for 'that program in the Upstate'
When Shane Beamer was last on the South Carolina staff, the Gamecocks had a firm grip on the rivalry with Clemson. In the decade since he left, Clemson has flipped the script, and the Tigers are currently on a six-game winning streak in the rivalry.
At his introductory press conference, Beamer, the new head coach, addressed how he would handle what a reporter called, “the Clemson problem.”
“You mentioned that program in the Upstate,” Beamer said, “they’re certainly on a pretty good run right now, but when I was here before, we were on a pretty dang good run ourselves against those guys as well. It’s a big challenge and we’re going to work every single day in recruiting, in this facility to have a team that we can be proud of on the field, and that will result with the way we play on the field. Certainly great respect for those guys, but looking forward to getting in there and competing, I know that for a fact.”
South Carolina, to Beamer’s point, won every game from 2009 to 2014.
The game was called off this season because of the pandemic, something that Clemson coach Dabo Swinney noted at the start of the season.
“It’s kind of crazy to be honest with you to think that we’re going to go all the way to Notre Dame or they’re going to go to Texas or Mississippi or wherever to play but we can’t meet each other,” Swinney said, and noted at the time that it was out of he and Will Muschamp’s hands.
Got that Spurrier jab in by not mentioning the cow tech in the upstate by name.
Coach Shane Beamer gets it! I really enjoyed his first press conference.
Oh he’s gonna get it alright…Clemson is so far ahead of South Carolina it’s not even funny
Wow! You went out on a limb with that statement.
It wasn’t that long ago that South Carolina was on top and Clempson was losing to WVU 70-33.
Beamer might want to get a couple of good recruiting classes in place before he pokes that bear.
Call it a fault, but we’ve wrestled the same bear year after year. Some days the bear eats you and some days you eat the bear. We’ve come to enjoy the taste of bear and we miss it.
But it used to be a black bear now it’s a grizzly
Maybe for you guys. It’s just the same one to us.
That ain’t the same bear you last ate from. Good luck moving forward but you probably shouldn’t expect to dine on bear for the forseeable future.
I’ll stick with my original post. We play them every year except this year. You guys play them maybe once every ten years or so. They will always be the other school to us.
More like an obnoxious troll. They were obnoxious trolls before Dabo, and before Spurrier. They will always be obnoxious trolls. The only thing that changes is how obnoxious, and arrogant they are.
Abbreviation for Program in the upstate: PU.
This is not a plan. The only thing he can try to plan for is to quit getting blown out all the time.