Shane Beamer Breaks His Foot in Postgame Temper Tantrum

Shane Beamer loves creating content. No podcast microphone within 300 miles of Columbia is safe. Video spoofs might be his favorite side-gig. Whether he’s wearing sunglasses or spoofing Michael Scott, the South Carolina head coach never shies away from the limelight. The method actor took things a step too far and turned into Michael Scott over the weekend.

In front of a packed house at Williams-Brice Stadium, South Carolina crumbled in the fourth quarter against Florida. The Gamecocks turned a second half deficit into a 10-point lead, but blew it in the final five minutes of the game. Graham Mertz put together not one, but two 75-yard touchdown drives late in the fourth quarter, capping off the comeback with a 21-yard touchdown pass to Ricky Pearsall with 47 seconds left on the clock.

Pain swept across the Palmetto State following the 41-39 loss, right into the foot of Shane Beamer.

Following the meltdown on the football field, Shane Beamer had a meltdown in the locker room. The South Carolina head coach shared that he suffered a broken foot after kicking something out of frustration.

“I broke my foot on Saturday, so I’d rather just get it out there and say it. And not have y’all speculating and then after the game on Saturday at Missouri you ask,” Shane Beamer said. “I called coach [Ray] Tanner, told him, made sure he was OK with it and he died laughing when I told him. So I guess there’s not a lot of empathy from him. It was after the game, and certainly that was a gut-wrenching, emotional loss, and I was frustrated and kicked something that I shouldn’t have kicked.

He added, “I thought I was OK, but the adrenaline of the game wore off, and before anybody starts the narrative like, ‘The head football coach is frustrated and lost his poise,’ and all that. No, I care. I care about these kids, and I was really upset on Saturday night because I didn’t do enough to help them get over the hump and win the football game.”

Beamer was not in crutches or a boot when he shared this news. However, he did request for more bubblewrap to be delivered to the South Carolina football facility.

Shane Beamer showing up to the facility on Sunday. pic.twitter.com/MqZVJ3W2do

— Nick Roush (@RoushKSR) October 17, 2023

Shane Beamer Melts Down at the Podium Too

The South Carolina head coach was still steaming when he spoke to reporters after the loss. As has become the norm during his reign in Columbia, he was quick to blame somebody else for his team’s shortcomings.

“The main problem is we call pressures, and we don’t run them,” Beamer said. “We play man coverage and we didn’t do a good job of keeping leverage. Just in the first half alone, we ran a pressure where the corner came, and for some reason he stopped and we gave up an explosive pass because we didn’t run the pressure.”

I like Shane but Beamer is playing with fire here. pic.twitter.com/Q60FYXBfCx

— Jesse Simonton (@JesseReSimonton) October 15, 2023

A day later, he walked back those comments in a conference call with reporters. It’s not that his players weren’t running the pressures, they just weren’t adjusting quickly enough to what Florida was doing offensively.

It’s reminiscent of how South Carolina opened the season. Following the loss to North Carolina, he took a shot at the chain gang for eating hot dogs at halftime and slowing down his kicking unit. “That was the only disappointing thing about tonight,” even though they successfully recovered the onside kick to open the third quarter.

Beamer’s team is 2-4 and if the season continues to trend in the same direction, we could see even more entertaining antics by the time the Wildcats travel to South Carolina.