South Carolina coaches hit the road for spring eval period
Recruiting never really stops and for the first time since Shane Beamer took over as South Carolina’s head football coach, the Gamecocks’ assistants hit the road starting last week for the spring evaluation period.
When Beamer first arrived at South Carolina, recruiting was still amid a Covid-19 shutdown that lasted the first five-plus months of his tenure and through the spring, the time that coaches traditionally visit high schools for an early look at their up-and-coming players.
Soon after the Gamecocks’ wrapped up spring practice with the Garnet and Black spring game this year, their assistants hit the road to drop in on schools across the country as many high schools are getting ready to start their own spring practices.
“It’s really big because we didn’t get it last year or the year before,” Beamer said Wednesday at the Spartanburg County Welcome Home Tour stop. “So for us, it’s the first time our staff has ever been able to get out on the road in the spring evaluation period. So to be able to want to get out into high schools and to meet so many of the great high school coaches in this state and in across the country has been fantastic. To be able to get out and actually put eyes on prospects, a lot of them for the first time, that are young players that we can evaluate is fantastic. And the feedback has been awesome.”
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As the official NCAA recruiting calendar reads: “an authorized off-campus recruiter may use one evaluation to assess the prospective student-athlete’s athletics ability and one evaluation to assess the prospective student-athlete’s academic qualifications during this evaluation period.”
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In real-world terms: an on-field coach, not including the head coach, can drop in on the high school of a prospect twice during the spring evaluation period.
While the coach can’t meet with the prospect directly, he can spend time with the head coach gathering information about the player and watch him practice.
Beamer said that the feedback so far as been extremely positive.
“I just got a text before I got in here tonight from Coach Pete Lembo, our special teams coach, and he’s up in the Northeast (Wednesday),” Beamer said. “And he said, we got the best compliment and he’s like, I’m up here in New England and a coach from another school, a Big Ten program, bumped into Pete on the road and said, ‘Everybody in this area, all they talk about is South Carolina football’ and that was pretty cool hearing from a Big Ten coach, saying that about us. So I think the feedback has been great and it’s Week 2 for our coaches out on the road and we got the whole month of May left but excited about being out there for sure.”
Schools have from April 15-May 31 to use their 168 “evaluation days” with every stop at a school counting towards that tally.
