It also forced South Carolina’s administration – and Beamer – to be creative during the process.įollowing is part one in a multi-installment series giving readers an oral history of the search’s events, as told by Beamer, Miller, and Tanner, with notes and commentary from ’s Chris Clark. The search was conducted against the backdrop of a COVID-19 pandemic that had drastically cut crowd sizes, eliminated recruiting travel, and annihilated operating budgets across college athletics. The proceedings were not without challenges, however.
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The search appeared tidy and was certainly shorter than the 50-day plus affair from back in 2015. spoke exclusively with Beamer, Tanner, Senior Deputy Athletics Director Chance Miller, and other sources familiar with the 2020 head coaching search to piece together how the three-week undertaking landed on the former Gamecocks assistant.
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“The day that it was announced, from my standpoint, it was like full speed ahead trying to put myself into position to be here,” Beamer said. And Shane Beamer now had a chance to go get the job he had wanted from the moment he left Columbia in 2010. Athletics Director Ray Tanner now had a search on his hands. The University of South Carolina now had an opening for a head football coach. South Carolina gave up 59 points in a loss to the Rebels, and Will Muschamp was relieved of his duties the following night. By the time the next game, a road matchup with Ole Miss, rolled around, the writing was on the wall. “There’s only so much you could do.”įollowing the off week, the Gamecocks were non-competitive in a 48-3 home loss to Texas A&M. Certainly, I was keeping up with it and trying to follow what all was going on,” Beamer recounted to. “Just filed it away because I was busy with my own team at Oklahoma. The Gamecocks still had a coach, and his current team had a game to play the next night. His dream job could be opening, but Beamer was careful not to get overly excited. The Charleston native spent four years as an assistant coach under Steve Spurrier, longing for a return to George Rogers Boulevard as head coach. To say the call grabbed Beamer’s attention would be an understatement. Texas A&M was next, then Ole Miss, Missouri, Georgia, and Kentucky. The Gamecocks were sitting at 2-3 and a tough stretch loomed.
Beamer’s source-not anyone from South Carolina’s administration, he says-was calling to pass him a message: do not be shocked if a head coaching change is made in Columbia.
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