Shane Beamer on balancing changing roles midseason or staying course
A few weeks ago, Shane Beamer mentioned if he thought changing a coach’s role on the South Carolina staff would benefit the program as a whole, he would do it.
But, after a three-game stretch where South Carolina went 1-2, there hasn’t been any movement or changing of roles.
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Beamer was asked how he balances making a mid-season change compared to letting coaches try to tweak things schematically. He said he evaluates on a week-to-week basis.
“Each week we’re trying to continue to figure out how we can be better this week than what we were last week. And not just blowing everything up. This wasn’t good enough, we need to be better, how are we going to be better this week? That’s any position and any side of the ball. Those are conversations we had on Sunday,” Beamer said.
“We weren’t good though on offense. We weren’t good enough stopping the run on defense, we weren’t good enough at protecting the football. And we weren’t good on third down. How are we going to be better this week also? It’s trying to continue to elevate where we are at the current moment.”
South Carolina is coming off one of its more disappointing performances of the season, a 38-6 blowout loss to Florida in Gainesville.
The Gamecocks scored just six points–all on a fake punt passing touchdown–and mustered just 237 total yards of offense.
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Defensively South Carolina allowed its most rushing yardage since 2015.
It’s led many outside the program to want to see a shakeup on the coaching staff heading into the last game.
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Beamer was also asked how he evaluates things after losses, especially one like Saturday where nothing outside of special teams really went right.
“Each week is different. After every game, you step back and say, OK, what were the issues yesterday and why were they issues?’ Was it we couldn’t hold onto the ball and turned the ball over too much?” he said.
“Maybe we need to spend more time on ball security, which we do a ton of in practice to begin with. Were we making a lot of mental errors and guys weren’t playing with confidence? Maybe we had too much in and their minds were cluttered. That’s not just offense. That’s defense and special teams.”
South Carolina finishes its season against two top-10 opponents. It hosts Tennessee Saturday (7 p.m., ESPN) before traveling to Clemson for a noon kickoff the following week.
