Shane Beamer Camp: Day 1 Updates (June 4)

Day 1 of the Shane Beamer Camp has arrived as the South Carolina football program will welcome hundreds of prospects to campus throughout their 10 camp days in June.

Saturday’s docket features both a one-day traditional camp, starting at around 10:30 a.m., and a specialist camp put on by Pete Lembo at 3:30 in the afternoon.

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Shane Beamer previews camp season

Camp season is officially here for South Carolina football.

Shane Beamer and the Gamecocks will hold their first of 10 June camp days starting this Saturday with a one-day camp starting at 10:30 a.m. and a specialists camp at 3:30 p.m.

South Carolina will also hold one-day camps on June 5, 9-10, 18 and 20. Additionally, on June 16-17 and 23-24 the Gamecocks will host 7-on-7 passing tournaments along with OL/DL camps each day.

“Recruiting-wise, it should be a great month for us and hopefully there will be some great things happening this month,” Beamer said last week at the Florence Welcome Home Tour stop. “June was really good to us last year in recruiting. By the end of the month, we were on a hot streak where it seemed like somebody was calling to commit every day. And hopefully we have the same success this year. I think we’re in great positions with some people who will be here on some unofficial visits. I know we’re in great positions with some guys that will be here on official visits. It will be a really, really critical month from a recruiting standpoint and football standpoint.”

This time last year, South Carolina was beginning to host prospects on its campus for the first time in nearly 15 months after the COVID-forced in-person recruiting shutdown meaning it was the first time that Beamer’s staff was able to meet prospects in person.

With a full year under their belts now, Beamer believes there will be better familiarity with the 1,000s of prospects who will hit Columbia in the next few weeks.

“Yeah, it’s great. One, the guys you’re bringing to camp, you have a better idea about some of them for sure,” Beamer said. “Maybe, we’ve got four 7-on-7 camps going on, where we’ve got 25 high school teams per day, so we’ve got 100 high school teams that’ll be bringing their entire team here over four days in June. That’s awesome. Guys from West Virginia, teams from teams Virginia, teams from North Carolina, teams from Georgia, Florida, South Carolina. So it may be somebody that we saw last year that we liked, now we get them back on campus and we’re already more familiar with them than what we were last year — that’s a benefit.”

As with anything, having experience can be beneficial as well and Beamer says last year’s hectic June recruiting period was a great learning experience for the entire South Carolina football program.

“And then I think the biggest thing is just us knowing, okay — like everything that we do — we went back through after each camp last year, what would we do differently? Is there anything that we would change? How can we make it better? And now you’re able to look back at those notes and say, ‘Hey, last year we said we maybe shouldn’t think about doing this next year,’ so we’re doing that this year and whatnot. So just being able to do it a second time through, like anything, you can refer back to last year and how to make it better.”

While this summer likely won’t be as hectic as last — when prospects were having to shove the missed 15 months of the recruiting process into 60 days — Beamer challenged his staff to attack this month with the exact same excitement and intensity.

Stick with Gamecock Central for complete coverage of South Carolina’s 10 camp days this month.

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