Notes from Shane Beamer's appearance at Welcome Home Tour in Aiken
South Carolina football head coach Shane Beamer met with media prior to his appearance at the Aiken stop of the 2025 Welcome Home Tour.
Following is a summary of his remarks about the Gamecock football program with his team now in the month of May.
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— Beamer provided an update at the previous tour stop on running back Rahsul Faison, noting that he had not yet been cleared by the NCAA.
That was status quo on Tuesday, with Beamer saying he had not heard anything new on Faison’s waiver request for an additional year of eligibility.
Asked if it was possible that legal action could be pursued, Beamer said that all options were on the table, pending what Faison wants to do. First, Beamer noted, the school would wait to hear from the NCAA one way or the other.
— South Carolina has added to the offensive line room via the transfer portal in landing Nolan Hay from Incarnate Word, but he noted that
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Some college programs, Beamer noted, like to carry 16-18 offensive linemen on scholarship. While stopping short of saying that was South Carolina’s ideal number, Beamer did say the Gamecocks are still lighter there from a numbers standpoint.
He is happy with the position overall, nothing that Cason Henry and Josiah Thompson are still competing with Tree Babalade and Jatavius Shivers at tackle, plus healthy competition at the interior spots.
— LaNorris Sellers has not let any of the offseason NFL mock draft talk go to his head, Beamer said. It may affect other guys, but not Sellers.
Beamer also told a humorous story about the Welcome Home Tour stop in Florence that Sellers attended, saying that he had missed a class and had to get an excuse to turn into his professor.
