His 2014 team had 3 losses, 2010 team had 4 losses, 2017 had 4 losses. He might be an improvement over Beamer but he isn't going to really change things. If the goal is a 7-8 win regular season, Mullen might be the guy.
That's why I said Mullen would not necessarily be my top choice. But there's no doubt he would be a big improvement over Beamer, who is no coach.
One other thing: with all our recruiting disadvantages, 7-8 wins a year with occasional better years, is probably the best we can do. I have come to that realization. We will never win the national championship nor the SEC. If we make the 12 -team playoffs, we should celebrate like we did win the national championship. Dan Mullen or a coach like him definitely could get us there. We just have to realize our limitations. It was not easy for me to do so. But having been a Gamecock fan since the 1960s. the evidence is there for me to see. I just finally accepted it.
You mention top assistant at a top program. It will be interesting to see how Jeff Lebby does at Mississippi State. I know one Miss. State family. Husband and wife are both grads of that school. Their 3 boys are either graduates of that school or currently attend. They are "over the moon" with excitement about Lebby. He has been an Offensive Coordinator to Josh Heupel, Lane Kiffin and Brent Venables. He has produced Top 15 and better offenses at various stops. He is 40 with a great offensive background, having worked for offensive gurus Kiffin and Heupel. A coach with an offensive background is the key to winning in todays college football. Mississippi State is not an easy place to win at (which is why I'm impressed with Mullen). We will see how he does.
There are so many promising young coaches in the game, we must’ve stumbled over all of those to get to Beamer.
Beamer was hired based pretty solely on his last name and hope that coaching ability is somehow a genetic trait.
No Tanner succumbed to pressure from ex players. He does not have a clue about football and it shows.
7-8 wins a year would certainly give our program some dignity.
He's supposed to be the expert on baseball, and we still have meandered for years to get to Mainieri.
An AD doesn't necessarily have to know a lot about the sport he is hiring a coach for. That is what a search committee is supposed to do, evaluate and determine which candidates are qualified. Ex players shouldn't have any say whatsoever in who the coach is.
If the AD doesn't do his own due diligence and relies solely on the search committee, does that mean he gets to blame his failures on the search committee.
I could live with that. He's an Air Raid guy....and we've passed on about 6-7 legit, potential HCs with strong AR ties or belief. It is an offense that has worked very well in college the last 25 years....if NCs and Heismans matter to anyone.
Are there a lot of Spurrier and Sabans that want our job?
Yeah, I'd say 80% or greater odds that he's still here next year, regardless of record. Still fun to speculate, tho.
In Hollywood today, they call actors and actresses who get roles because their parent(s) is a famous actor or actress "Nepo Babies". It has been a big controversy there because the kids are just not talented performers. Well, we hired a Nepo Baby as Head Coach. It's a shame that the Board of Trustees, Tanner or both did not take their duties more seriously to hire a quality Head Coach. Did it ever occur to those bozos that no school thought enough of Beamer to make him an OC or DC, much less a Head Coach? Has there ever been a school that has shot itself more in its football foot than South Carolina? smh
You could be right. If that's the case, I'd hate to see how many exercise the use of their tickets to attend the games and, eventually, how many continue buying tickets and remain in the Gamecock Club. Even Gamecocks fans have a threshold of pain.
Do they though? I think one reason we have ever seen any meaningful change is that fans fairly reliably show up to games. Regardless of the product on the field. There’s a whole guilt factor of showing up to support the players even if the team stinks. But all the administration cares about is there butts in the seats, no matter the reason.
I guess if you’re the administration and we can make money easy enough without putting much effort into it, why should we?
I hope so. Football is certainly THE sport. So, maybe people will attend no matter what. I just wonder if we are contending with Vanderbilt for bottom feeder status, will people continue coming out?
I tend to agree. He could win 4 games this year and I get a strong feeling he's back next year. Now he doesn't get bowl eligible next year... he is toast. That said, win 3 games this year and I wouldn't bet either way.
Might be our best realistic option. Pending massive improvement over Game 1, I feel like ODU marks the beginning of the end for Shane Beamer
He's an Aggie (make me vomit) and he told A&M and their money wagon to **** off this past off-season when A&M hired Elko
That's the danger of hiring someone who has never been a Head Coach. He does not have a track record, like Steve Spurrier, to keep going with him. If you keep going with someone who is over his head, you keep digging a bigger and bigger hole for your program, making the successor's job that much more difficult.
