A lot of good candidates out there, and you’re just trying to figure out what the best thing is, all in your gut. It’s 10 coaches, it’s graduate assistants, it’s analysts, it’s strength coaches, it’s Derrick Moore and player development, and everything else. It’s finding the guys that love football that you can compete against them with. Then also realizing that, you know what, there are some guys that, that’s what they’re after. So, we can do it, you can be a part of the group that does it for the first time, and then also being able to compete against those guys. We had guys like Alshon Jeffery, DJ Swearinger, and all these guys that came. We went there in 2010 and we have even more resources now to be successful than we had then, there’s no reason why we can’t get back. I’m not selling you something we haven’t done. I have that towel up from the SEC Championship game and I tell every recruit: I’ve got that towel up, we’ve been there. There are some guys that no matter what, they’re probably going to Georgia or somewhere with a logo. He used to say in staff meetings all the time, we better be thorough on in-state evaluations because the guys we don’t take are going to go play for South Carolina and Clemson and Auburn and Tennessee.įor me, you battle it. They have a lot of great players they’re not able to take. I learned from Kirby (Smart) that they can only take 25 a year. Just being able to emphasize that as much as we can and get guys here. I guess you don’t think South Carolina’s going to be like that, and it is. So many families, when they come here, they are like ‘I had no idea South Carolina was like this.’ Even some of these guys that we brought in from a transfer standpoint came in like, ‘oh my God.’ I don’t know what people expected. I don’t know how much jumps out right now that we want to change, but a lot of it is realizing even more so now just what an impact getting these guys on campus has, letting them see this facility, getting them on campus. Looking back, now that you’ve gone through a year, you’re looking back and been through a year of it, what are some things we’d do different? Every person is responsible for giving one or two things of how we can be better at recruiting, whether it be junior days, whether it be visits, home games, virtual visits, whatever it may be. That’s one thing we’ve talked about as a staff. On this day, just a few remain: messages – such as “I love you” – from his three children and an offensive play design left up from discussions in the midst of the 2021 season.īEAMER: That’s still kind of a work in progress, trying to dive in and analyze on how we can be better. The floor-to-ceiling windows that look outside can also serve as a type of dry erase board, and there have been times in which the glass has been completely covered with markings. And now, roughly 14 months into his time as South Carolina’s head coach, the space is beginning to accumulate more and more keepsakes from his second stop in Columbia – this one being the stint that Beamer hopes lasts the rest of his career.įrom anywhere in the office, a breathtaking view overlooks Gamecock Park and, a bit further in the distance, Williams-Brice Stadium. Several pages of handwritten notes he used to prep for the press conference that formally introduced him in December 2020 are framed on a wall. There’s a white rally towel from the 2010 SEC title game, when Beamer was an assistant under Steve Spurrier. Shelves behind his desk hold helmets of the teams from his previous coaching stops. Shane Beamer’s sprawling office inside the Cyndi and Kenneth Long Family Football Operations Center is filled with mementos from his 22-year coaching career.
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