Shane Beamer closing in on offensive coordinator hire
Mike Shula is expected to become South Carolina football’s next offensive coordinator, GamecockCentral.com has learned.
The program has a vacancy at the position after Dowell Loggains, who spent the past two seasons in the role in Columbia, left to become the head coach at Appalachian State.
Shula spent the 2024 season on Shane Beamer’s staff with a title of Senior Offensive Assistant and worked closely with the quarterbacks, including standout redshirt freshman LaNorris Sellers.
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On game days, Shula was positioned on the sidelines with Sellers while Loggains called plays from the box.
His promotion into the offensive coordinator role would allow for continuity with Sellers, who is projected to be one of the country’s top quarterbacks heading into the 2025 season.
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The coaching veteran has multiple stints to his credit as an offensive coordinator, most notably with the Carolina Panthers from 2013 until 2017. During that time, he worked with Cam Newton, who won MVP of the NFL in 2015. The Panthers advanced to the Super Bowl during that season. Following that 2015 campaign, he was named the league’s Offensive Coordinator of the Year by PFF.
Shula’s also been the play-caller for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the New York Giants in the NFL and served as the head coach at the University of Alabama from 2003 until 2006.
A former quarterback for the Crimson Tide, Shula began his coaching career with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 1988. He also has stints as an assistant in the NFL with the Miami Dolphins, Chicago Bears, Jacksonville Jaguars, New York Giants, Denver Broncos, and Buffalo Bills.
