Oklahoma’s game against West Virginia that week was postponed due to COVID-19 issues with the Sooners. It’s great to be home.” Beamer will be introduced to the team with USC AD Ray Tanner at 3:30 /f1tZyj6Z3rīeamer reportedly interviewed for the job the week of Thanksgiving. I asked Beamer how’s it feel to be back in Columbia and he told me, “It’s awesome. Just In: A first look at Shane Beamer arriving at the ops building. Here is his arrival at the South Carolina football facility.
Beamer is in South Carolina and being introduced as the next head coach of the Gamecocks on Sunday. Lincoln Riley was unaware of the happenings after the game, but the report has already come to fruition. Shane Beamer’s absence was not unexpected as he was among the list of coaches who were in protocol, but the news that broke on Saturday night was unexpected.ĭeep into the fourth-quarter of Oklahoma’s game against Baylor, Bruce Feldman dropped the news: Sooners assistant coach Shane Beamer had been hired to be the head coach at South Carolina.
This story was originally published November 16, 2021, 10:06 AM.Oklahoma was missing a single coach from the sidelines on Saturday night after a long week with multiple coaches in COVID-19 protocol. Would Shane Beamer be interested in coming home (and would VT want him)? - Jim Weber November 16, 2021īetter job.South Carolina or Virginia Tech?- Danny Kanell November 16, 2021ĭoes Virginia Tech dare make a call to favorite son Shane Beamer? Nowhere near the pressure of the SEC in Blacksburg.- William Brackin November 16, 2021 So does Coastal Carolina’s Jamey Chadwell. Thoughts on who will replace Justin Fuente at Virginia Tech? Re: Shane Beamer, Virginia Tech vacancy.- Brad Crawford November 16, 2021
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Either go to VT full on, or denounce- flirtation can’t be good.- Scott Eisberg November 16, 2021īefore the rumors begin, I don't believe there's mutual interest from either side. I would think Shane Beamer has to open up his press conference today by saying “I have no interest in the Virginia Tech job” if he wants to truly remain in full good graces at USC. And while this season hasn’t been perfect and there might be a higher ceiling at Virginia Tech given its spot in the Atlantic Coast Conference, it would go against almost 20 years of the younger Beamer’s intent to carve his own path.
Sure, he hadn’t been an offensive or defensive coordinator before, but he’d spent time at some of the nation’s biggest football factories (Georgia and Oklahoma) and was a part of Steve Spurrier’s staff ahead of the 2011 to 2013 glory days at South Carolina.īeamer has inspired what had been a dormant program. He’d worked for two decades to be afforded a chance to run his own program. “This is why these coaches came here is for nights like this and we’re going to have a bunch of more nights like this going forward.”ĭuring his introductory press conference last December, Beamer glowed with excitement. “This is why this has been my dream job and (there’s) nowhere else that I want to be,” Beamer said after South Carolina’s dominant win over Florida two weeks ago.
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