Shane Beamer shares 'non-update' update on Rahsul Faison situation
The final official Welcome Home Tour stop of the 2025 spring has come and gone, and South Carolina still hasn’t heard from the NCAA if running back transfer Rahsul Faison will be eligible to play this season.
“Nope,” Beamer said Monday in Rock Hill when asked if there was anything new. “Nothing, nothing. Saw him in the weight room today. He was in there working hard. And again, hopefully we’ll have some closure on that at some point soon.”
Beamer said last week at a Welcome Home Tour event that he was growing frustrated with the lack of an answer for Faison after the school submitted his appeal for an additional year in January.
A few days later, Faison posted on X/Twitter that he had retained premier NIL lawyer Darren Heitner, who South Carolina men’s basketball’s Stute also hired to help with his appeal for an extra year, which was ultimately granted.
“Yeah, that was nothing that we directed him to do,” Beamer said last week. “That was nothing that we set up for him. I saw it on social media like y’all did. I said, ‘Okay, that’s cool.’ That was really Rahsul, and I think that is just kind of the next step.”
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Faison transferred to South Carolina in January after spending the last two seasons at Utah State, where he rushed for 1,845 yards and 13 touchdowns on 316 carries.
He graduated from high school in 2019 but did not play football in 2019 or 2020, and then played at a junior college in 2021 and 2022.
He hopes for an extra year of eligibility due to the “Pavia” rule and has a strong case.
“Like I said the other night, I understand the NCAA has a lot on their plate,” Beamer said last week. “But there are a lot of things in the balance here, and it is something that we have been trying to get an answer on since January. I think Rahsul felt like it was the next thing to do to try and maybe fast forward this thing along.”
