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Shane Beamer excited about Dowell Loggains' offense

wesby:Wes Mitchell•02/21/23•

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Three takeaways from Dowell Loggains' media availability
Arkansas tight ends coach Dowell Loggains chats on the field before a game on Sept. 17, 2022. (Wesley Hitt / Getty Images)

South Carolina football coach Shane Beamer joined On3’s JD PicKell earlier this week on The Hard Count with JD PicKell for a wide-ranging interview on a number of topics as the Gamecocks inch closer to the start of spring practice.

Among those topics that Beamer and PicKell went in-depth on was his decision to hire former Arkansas assistant Dowell Loggains as the Gamecocks’ new offensive coordinator.

“I’m excited about Dowell and what he brings to the table,” Beamer said in the interview. “He’s a great person. He’s shown in his short time in college football that he’s a dynamic recruiter. He’s been great. He was a great recruiter at Arkansas and he’s been great in his short time with us already as well.”

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After South Carolina finished the 2022 season on an offensive tear, and returns quarterback Spencer Rattler and wide receiver Juice Wells from the offense that helped beat Tennessee and Clemson, Beamer doesn’t want to reinvent the wheel.

The Gamecocks’ third-year head coach believes South Carolina needs to continue to feature pro-style elements while tweaking some things along the way.

“He was an exciting person for me to bring into the program because of recruiting ability, because of the person he is, but then his background is in the NFL,” Beamer said in the interview. “That’s basically where he’s been his entire career. So being able to take the things that he did in the NFL, which was important for Spencer when he was making his decision to come back, that we were not going to get too far away from a pro-style type offense.”

Pro-style offense but with college mechanics in terms of the logistics of the play-calling? While the ins and outs of South Carolina’s new scheme are still not known — and probably won’t be for some time — the consensus is that the Gamecocks hope to run similar concepts to last year while streamlining their entire operation.

That likely means the potential for more tempo and shorter play-calls.

“The thing that excites me about Dowell is he’s now been at Arkansas for two seasons and that system that they’re running at Arkansas, which is different than most NFL teams, obviously,” Beamer said. “I think Dowell’s been able to take the good and the bad from both of them and really blend it to be a kind of a — I don’t want to say cutting edge — but an offense that blends pro-style elements along with the college up-tempo spread type systems as well.”

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