1/17/2024 0 Comments Beamer ball vineEvery time things have seemed like they have taken a turn for the worse, Beamer’s bunch has responded bigly. In football, just like in life, it’s about responding to adversity rather than avoiding adversity all together (you cannot avoid it). That matters at a program that had one bowl win in its history prior to 2000. So so far, so good when it comes to performances in bowls. Some will also remember a 20-7 loss to UCONN in the 2009 Bowl in Birmingham. Everyone remembers the 28-0 loss to Virginia in Charlotte in 2019. Now, it’s only two seasons and we don’t know if he will avoid this or not, but if you have followed South Carolina football long enough, you know the Gamecocks have had their share of bowl stinkers. Carolina beat UNC, 38-21, in 2021 in Charlotte, then fell 45-38 to Notre Dame in this past season’s Gator Bowl in a game that most thought was one of the best of the bowl season. Perhaps the best thing about South Carolina’s two bowl games under Beamer is that both were exciting contests where the Gamecocks played just as hard as they did during the regular season, despite having their share of opt-outs like most college teams do for bowls these days. Only Muschamp and Spurrier before him took their first two Carolina squads bowling. So what we can learn from this is never count Beamer’s teams out.īeamer is 1-1 in bowl games after two seasons. In 2022, the Gamecocks beat Kentucky, 24-14, in Lexington as a 4-point underdog, but the spread opened at 11.5 before news broke that Wildcats quarterback Will Levis, a potential first-round draft pick, would miss the game because of injury.Ĭarolina also defeated a talented, if underperforming results-wise, Texas A&M squad at home as a 3-point underdog, 30-24, two week after the Aggies were an incomplete pass away from upsetting Alabama in Tuscaloosa. South Carolina defeated Auburn, 21-17, in 2021 as a 7.5-point home dog. Those aren’t the only games Beamer has won as an underdog, though. Last season, Carolina topped Tennessee, 63-38, at home as a 22.5-point underdog and followed that game up with a 31-30 win at Clemson as a 14.5-point underdog the following week. In 2021, the Gamecocks defeated Florida, 40-17, as a 20.5-point underdog at home and beat North Carolina, 38-21, in the Dukes Mayonnaise Bowl as a 12.5-pound underdog at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte. Under Beamer, South Carolina has won four games as a double digit lined underdog. Let’s take a look at what the facts are right now and some of the tangible accomplishments Beamer and this staff have through two seasons at Carolina. Beamer is 15-11 in two years, good enough to tie Will Muschamp, Steve Spurrier and Joe Morrison for the most wins in program history during his first two seasons, but when you examine how that record was constructed over two seasons, there is proof that Beamer’s teams on game day have been relatively solid and have had some of the best moments this program has had in a decade.Īlso, there are tangible results to examine off the field beyond the intangible talk on culture, etc. We’ve also seen recruiting- both in the transfer portal and with high school and junior college players- take a jump numerically.īut take all of that away and just examine the results and there’s more to it than the intangibles that are so often discussed. SCOOP: Big DE visitor arriving this week | VIP: Culture, NIL and the Gamecocks | Tickets are on Sale for Carolina Rise Live! Get yours today He then launched a 23-yard pass rightward to Rogers, who caught it and took one step before winding up in the end zone.When it comes to South Carolina head football coach Shane Beamer, we’ve all heard over and over about the positive energy-fueled culture he’s building, the togetherness of his program and the cohesiveness and consistency he and his staff operate with win or lose. During the Gator Bowl last year, he lined up for a field goal only to catch the snap and stutter step with the ball in his hands. “Beamer Ball” is responsible for one of Kroeger’s favorite memories of his career. We want to make it happen and be the aggressor and constantly attack and give those spaces the ability to score points also just like an offense will as well.” We don’t sit back and try to wait for something to happen on defense or special teams. So, it’s your offense, it’s your defense and it’s your special teams. “To me,” Shane said when “SEC Nation” came to Columbia last year - purposefully caveating the following definition as his own interpretation, “it’s the ability that whatever unit is on the field has the opportunity to score. Shane has brought the strategy to South Carolina with great success. His father, Frank Beamer - College Football Hall of Fame member and longtime Virginia Tech coach - made the concept “Beamer Ball” famous.
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