Shane Beamer clarifies postgame comments made after Saturday's loss
In the heat of the moment, Shane Beamer was frustrated. He just saw his team blow a 10-point lead in a game he felt they should’ve won.
Now with more time to reflect, Beamer provided clarity to his comments he made after Saturday’s loss to Florida.
“I made a comment about not running pressures. I think it came across as guys aren’t running them — that’s not necessarily the case,” Beamer said. “There were times where Florida gave us a formation that we had to adjust to, whether that meant we got out of the pressure or someone else ran it. We didn’t do a great job of that throughout the night.
“But we did do a great job of adjusting. Sometimes we did well, we just weren’t consistent enough on adjusting to those pressures or their formations.”
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When South Carolina did try to run pressures, Beamer thought the defense’s mentality needed to be better.
“When we call a pressure, we need to hit it. And we need to go and it needs to be very evident that we’re bringing extra people,” Beamer said. “I didn’t think we were great at that last night. And ultimately, that’s on us as coaches.”
Beamer was aware there was a lot made of his response about what he saw on defense. But he reassured that it always starts with coaching.
“I have always come to these postgame press conferences after a poor performance saying something along the lines of, ‘I didn’t do a good enough job coaching. And ultimately, it’s on me, I’m responsible.’ That has always been the case and last night was no different,” he said.
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Beamer’s main frustrations came from being in position to make plays and not being able to do so.
“That’s on us as coaches for not having our guys, starting with me as the head football coach, not having our guys in position to get it done. That was the frustrating thing,” Beamer said.
Beamer added that the defense wasn’t executing like it needed to with its technique and didn’t have enough leverage to make a play.
“We didn’t do a good enough job as coaches of coaching that during the week on that pressure, and that’s pressure that we’ve run a million times around here,” he said.
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While the Gamecocks made a lot of plays, Beamer felt it needed to make one more big play. And if they were able to do that, the outcome might’ve been different.
“We’ve just got to be better, starting with me, without a doubt,” Beamer said. “I mean, there were some great individual efforts yesterday on offense, defense and special teams.”
