Shane Beamer calls out narrative surrounding South Carolina entering game against Alabama

South Carolina has had their ups and downs, as every team does, this season. Still, Shane Beamer doesn’t appreciate how down that some have been on his team, especially over the last week or so.

Beamer received a question about what it says about the Gamecocks that they followed their 27-3 loss to Ole Miss with a near upset in a 27-25 loss at Alabama. To him, it was a reminder that no game or outcome is connected to the previous one or the one that’s next.

“It says that every week is different,” Beamer said postgame on Saturday.

With that, Beamer got to his overall point about how the story regarding his team has shifted so much already. They went from the respect of a big road win over Kentucky to disregard after a loss to LSU and then even more so following that blowout at home to the Rebels.

Now, after yesterday’s effort in Tuscaloosa, South Carolina hopes that they’ve edited those headlines.

“People can put lines as what they want, talk about us how they want to talk about us. It’s amazing to me. From Kentucky, the way we performed, you know, the perception of our team was really, really high. Then we had a crappy performance last Saturday. All of a sudden, the narrative is we ain’t worth a crap,” said Beamer. “That’s not the case. We had a bad game last week. We played bad, we performed back, we coached bad against Ole Miss. It doesn’t mean we were a bad team.”

Again, the performance against the Crimson Tide was an expected one from those at South Carolina. It just ended in their third loss, though, which is all Beamer and the Gamecocks really care about now.

“We expected to win this game. Nobody was, like, coming in here at halftime and doing cartwheels because we were in a tight game with Alabama. We expected that because we have a good football team,” said Beamer. “Life in this conference is really, really hard and there’s really good teams that you play week in, week out.”

“We have a good team that competes their asses off…That’s what we did today,” said Beamer. “Came up a little bit short. Says we had a bad day last week that we regrouped from because we’ve got a bunch of fighters in that room that love to compete and love to work. I hurt for them. That’s what I told them in the locker room is I hurt for them because we’re sick of this feeling. They work too hard during the week to come in here on Saturdays and feel like that in that locker room across that wall right there.”

At 3-3, South Carolina is at .500 with a so-so outlook about their season through this point. They’ll now continue to try to change that, both their record and the opinion of them, with their final game of the month next week against Oklahoma.