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South Carolina snagged its biggest win since 2019, dominating No. 5 Tennessee 63-38 Saturday to clinch win No. 7 on the year.
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What Shane Beamer said after South Carolina’s win over No. 5 Tennessee
by Michael Sauls
South Carolina secured one of the biggest wins in recent program history on Saturday, beating No. 5 Tennessee 63-38.
With the win, the Gamecocks improve to 7-4 and 4-4 in the SEC.
Here are some the highlights from Beamer’s postgame press conference:
-Beamer started the presser off by making fun of all the media’s predictions and how they were likely all wrong
-“Great night for the university…city…state…everybody”
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-Beamer on the performance: “I’ve been saying it every week, we have good football team and we showed it tonight.”
-“Good football teams have bad nights and bad stretches … last couple games haven’t been pretty”
-Said he told the team stories about the how there were multiple NFL teams who had bad stretches and turned it around and got better.
-“We played bad the last couple weeks but the team came back to work every single week and get better”
-Said he was “so happy” for the seniors, added that Eric Douglas told the team last night that he had a dream where they won and the fans stormed the field.
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-Talked to the team on Tuesday and said that no one else gets to write the script of this team: “Its a new Carolina guys, we get to write the story…I know what that teams about in that locker room”
-Beamer on the offense matchups: “It’s all about competition and the way that the Tennessee plays defense we knew WR/TE would have one on one matchups”
-Despite being down the top two RB’s, they were able to give players on the perimeter opportunities to make plays and “they never stopped it”
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-Joked he wasn’t even sure if his family picked USC to win
-Beamer on Spencer Rattler: “I saw the guy that he is…he was on, you talk about players being in the zone, he was in the zone”
-Added that Satterfield was also in the zone with the way he was calling plays
-Mindset on offense was going in was to attack: “You weren’t gonna win punting on fourth down and not being aggressive”
-Said calls in all three phases weren’t passive
-Losing Nick Emmanwori was a “huge loss” but Peyton Williams, who they were trying to redshirt, stepped up and played great
-Beamer said in Tennessee’s game last week their opponent punted five times on 4th and 5 or less: “told our team that we aren’t punting five times in that situation”
-“We wanted to be aggressive, word we used all week was attack…they’re a hard team to stop, with our depth issues on defense we couldn’t stay on the field.”
