Shane Beamer raves about NFL background for new offensive coordinator Dowell Loggains

The South Carolina offense closed the season on an absolute heater, scoring 63 in a blowout win over Tennessee, then 31 in a win over rival Clemson, and lastly 38 vs. Notre Dame in a bowl game, although the team wound up losing that one. Regardless, it was a transcendent final few games for the Gamecock offense, led by OC Marcus Satterfield and QB Spencer Rattler.

Only one of those names is back and it’s the guy under center, as Satterfield has since migrated to middle America to coach the new Nebraska offense alongside Matt Rhule. In his place, head coach Shane Beamer has added longtime NFL assistant Dowell Loggains, who was most recently the tight ends coach at Arkansas, a job he picked up after losing his OC job with the Jets when then-head coach Adam Gase was fired.

He’s an experienced offensive mind at the NFL level who proved at Arkansas he has the recruiting and player development chops to excel at the college level as well. So, at SEC Media Days, when asked about his new offensive coordinator, Shane Beamer had nothing but rave reviews.

Below, you can find his entire explanation on why Dowell Loggains was the perfect hire at OC for the Gamecocks:

Shane Beamer raves about Dowell Loggains’ addition

“Dowell has been fantastic. I’ve known Dowell for a long time. When he was in the NFL, I think I met him at the senior bowl when I was an assistant coach at South Carolina previously. So 2007-08, he was with the Tennessee Titans at the time. Met him at a Senior Bowl practice and we’ve just always kept in touch.

“Wherever he was coaching, I would always just try and go visit just to pick his brain and watch practice. So I went to Miami when he was in Miami. I went to Chicago when he was in Chicago. I went to Nashville when he was here with the Titans.

“So I knew what kind of person he was and how smart he was on the offensive side of the ball. And then the other thing that attracted me to him was… he’s not a guy that’s been in the NFL his entire career and is set on ‘this is how we have to do things because it’s how we do it in the NFL.’ He spent two years in college and also a few months on Penn State’s staff where he saw the college-type offenses and how the college game is different. Just hash marks and the field and whatnot.

“So being able to attack it, being able to marry the NFL background with the college background really attracted me to him, not to mention the kind of person he is. And he’s been better than I even imagined him being as a coach, a recruiter, a person. He’s got an awesome family and couldn’t be more excited about them being in Columbia.”