Clemson football fans shouldn’t worry about South Carolina’s new coaching hire
South Carolina, the in-state rival of Clemson football, has made its coaching hire following the firing of Will Muschamp just a few weeks ago.
It was reported last week that the Gamecocks were going to hire Shane Beamer– the current Oklahoma TE Coach and son of legendary coach Frank Beamer. He held his introductory press conference Monday afternoon and South Carolina fans everywhere have jumped back on board the bandwagon.
Despite the fact that Beamer has never had any head coaching experience, he is only a position coach and, really, he’s nothing more than a ‘cheerleader,’ that was the decision South Carolina chose to make.
Does that sound familiar?
Imitations are the best form of flattery, but they don’t work out. There’s only one Clemson football
We all know that the program down in the midlands has been depressingly living in the shadows of the Clemson football program for quite some time.
They remember the days where they used to make fun of Dabo Swinney and call him nothing more than a cheerleader with no experience.
Now, after the failed Muschamp experiment, the Gamecocks are looking to find their own Dabo Swinney, but we all know that imitations are nothing like the original copy.
You can try and copy a blueprint and hope for the best, but it will never be anything like the real thing. It’s kind of like the Gamecocks are now trying to becoming the off-brand of Clemson. Oh, how the times have changed.
Beamer will bring some new energy to that program, but the truth is that he simply isn’t going to be able to compete with Swinney and what the Tigers have built in their state. South Carolina has traditionally been a mediocre program- other than those few years with Steve Spurrier- and this is a mediocre hire at best.
It will be one that Gamecock fans will put on a good front for, but you know it’s got to be disappointing when you’re the first opening in the nation and you end up going with Beamer- a guy who certainly should’ve been further down the list than Billy Napier and Jamey Chadwell, in my opinion.
This may end up working out great, but we all know South Carolina has been the ‘graveyard for coaching careers’ and there’s nothing here that tells me this will be anything other than just another giant flop.