Shane Beamer discusses good, bad from South Carolina scrimmage
Shane Beamer and South Carolina are officially one week into preseason camp with plenty of good and plenty to work on.
The Gamecocks wrapped week one with an over two-hour scrimmage with plenty of things to “correct and build on for sure,” Beamer said, in what was also a typical first scrimmage of camp.
“Defensively, I thought we played pretty good stopping drives in the red zone. Offensively we have to do a better job finishing drives in the red zone,” he said.
“We did a pretty good job from a penalty standpoint. But I just talked to our team about that, we had some pretty critical penalties that sustained drives defensively….We had a few of them that kept the offense on the field. We have to get that cleaned up.”
South Carolina started practice last Friday and wrapped practice No. 6 Saturday night at Williams-Brice.
It marks the end of an eventful evaluation period for the Gamecocks’ staff with another big week to go as camp enters its final week.
“I love the demeanor and the way these guys work and strive to get better and take coaching. This week will be big. Classes start Thursday but it’s still, in our minds, the last week of preseason camp. We have another scrimmage coming up next Saturday. This is a big week coming up…It’s a lot of work that has to get done. We have to get a lot of details cleaned up, for sure.”
As camp continues on, Beamer’s concerns heading into the preseason slate of practices is the same: depth.
The Gamecocks are old in a lot of areas in terms of starters, but young behind them. That can be a cause for consternation.
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We have to try and figure out, for me, it’s a lot of the same concerns we had last time we talked in developing depth and trying to figure out who’s going to play,” Beamer said.
One of the biggest areas Beamer mentioned having to clean up came in the red zone, where South Carolina’s defense had the edge Saturday.
Spencer Rattler, he said, zipped the Gamecocks down the field on the first two drives but each ended up as field goals instead of touchdowns.
The Gamecocks, Beamer mentioned, only started installing the bulk of the red zone offense Thursday. That’s still no excuse, though.
“I think we need to be about to execute offensively and defensively down there. Certainly, the defense is going to be a little ahead,” Beamer said.
“The stuff we run we don’t have a ton of work on it. That’s no excuse. We have to execute, and the defense did today. Down there, as always, it comes down to making plays. The field shrinks. We talk to our players about it all the time.”
