Shane Beamer names South Carolina permanent captains for 2021 season

The South Carolina Gamecocks head football coach Shane Beamer utilized a unique strategy to prevent an ongoing back and forth before the start of the 2021 season. Throughout the year, the title of team captain can potentially change from one player to another but at the end of the season, teams sometimes name permanent captains to represent the season as a whole. Beamer decided to name permanent captains for the 2021 season.

“Yeah. Permanent team captains, we did. It was JJ (Kingsley) Enagbare, Parker White, Jaylan Foster, Jovaughn Gwyn, and Jabari Ellis. Yeah, so those five. We said vote on four and the vote was so close that we weren’t going to not, you know, put the fifth guy on there, ’cause he had just as many votes as the fourth guy pretty much. So, five permanent captains and they earned it,” said Beamer.

“They were phenomenal. Got one of them back in Gwyn. So appreciate those guys being our permanent captains. To me, there’s no greater honor than to have the respect of your teammates, and what an honor that is for those guys to be the 2021 permanent captains here at the University of South Carolina.”

South Carolina adds NFL vet to staff

The South Carolina Gamecocks and head coach Shane Beamer are looking to the NFL ranks to fill a vacancy in their coaching staff. The Gamecocks have hired Jacksonville Jaguars assistant Sterling Lucas to become their next outside linebackers coach.

Lucas will be taking over for Mike Peterson, who left South Carolina to join Billy Napier’s staff at Florida. While he will be assuming the same roles he had with South Carolina, Peterson will be paid more by the Gators

As for Lucas, he’s spent the last six years in the NFL between the Baltimore Ravens and the Jacksonville Jaguars. He spent the first five years of his NFL tenure with the Ravens working in multiple positions before finally joining the Jaguars staff this year. Former Jacksonville head coach Urban Meyer brought Lucas on to serve as his assistant defensive line coach.

This will be Lucas’ first gig in the college football ranks as a full-on coach. Before he went to the NFL, he was a strength and conditioning graduate assistant for two seasons at North Carolina State, his alma mater. That is where he first worked with current South Carolina defensive coordinator Clayton white.