You’re trying to recruit, you’re trying to learn who your own players are, you’re trying to keep your current players from entering the transfer portal, and you’re trying to hire. That was probably the hardest month I’ve had, which you would expect it to be. You’re putting together the staff, chasing down people, you have people leave, and you’re trying to recruit, too.īEAMER: That was really, really, really hard. GAMECOCKCENTRAL: The staff process after you were hired, it seemed like it was a lot. It’s finding the guys that love football that you can compete against them with. Then also realizing that, you know what, there are some guys that, that’s what they’re after. So, we can do it, you can be a part of the group that does it for the first time, and then also being able to compete against those guys. We had guys like Alshon Jeffery, DJ Swearinger, and all these guys that came. We went there in 2010 and we have even more resources now to be successful than we had then, there’s no reason why we can’t get back. I’m not selling you something we haven’t done. I have that towel up from the SEC Championship game and I tell every recruit: I’ve got that towel up, we’ve been there. There are some guys that no matter what, they’re probably going to Georgia or somewhere with a logo. He used to say in staff meetings all the time, we better be thorough on in-state evaluations because the guys we don’t take are going to go play for South Carolina and Clemson and Auburn and Tennessee.įor me, you battle it. They have a lot of great players they’re not able to take. I learned from Kirby (Smart) that they can only take 25 a year. And then, really, just the opportunity you have here. Not only do you play in the SEC, you play Clemson. Most years, you can bank on three of your opponents being in the top 10 if you take Clemson, Georgia, and (Texas) A&M right away. ![]() For me, it’s you can come here and compete against those guys. I was talking to another head coach the other night on the phone and it was, the best recruiters have the logo on their shirt year in and year out. GAMECOCKCENTRAL: How much do you run into ‘The Logo’ on the recruiting trail, and how do you beat that?īEAMER: Quite a bit. For the out of state guys it’s basically an extra unofficial visit. Maybe not every single night like last year, but at least once or twice a week being able to get those guys on because it is pretty impressive what we do. GAMECOCKCENTRAL: Spencer Rattler told us that he was blown away on the virtual visit.īEAMER: We had a staff meeting and that’s what we literally just talked about was, for the out of state guys, we need to continue doing the virtual visits. Just being able to emphasize that as much as we can and get guys here. I guess you don’t think South Carolina’s going to be like that, and it is. So many families, when they come here, they are like ‘I had no idea South Carolina was like this.’ Even some of these guys that we brought in from a transfer standpoint came in like, ‘oh my God.’ I don’t know what people expected. I don’t know how much jumps out right now that we want to change, but a lot of it is realizing even more so now just what an impact getting these guys on campus has, letting them see this facility, getting them on campus. Looking back, now that you’ve gone through a year, you’re looking back and been through a year of it, what are some things we’d do different? Every person is responsible for giving one or two things of how we can be better at recruiting, whether it be junior days, whether it be visits, home games, virtual visits, whatever it may be. That’s one thing we’ve talked about as a staff. “He does it.GAMECOCKCENTRAL: In terms of recruiting, what’s your assessment on where it is, what you like, and what you and your staff can get better at?īEAMER: That’s still kind of a work in progress, trying to dive in and analyze on how we can be better. “He’s not one of those coaches who talks it,” added Cam Smith in the ESPN story. We didn’t have that before Coach Beamer got here, and that’s why we’re ready to take that next step,” said tight end Jaheim Bell. Everybody in the building is more positive. More than one Gamecock football star player added additional context in an interview with ’s Chris Low during the summer. He showed us what it was like to win because we had never seen it before.” ![]() When that went away and he got us to start caring about each other, we started winning more games. “It was never what can we do better? What can we do to grow as a team? It was always a me mentality. How I can get to the league? What can I do to better myself?” Gamecock football defensive tackle Zacch Pickens said at SEC Media Days. ![]() “Before coach Beamer got here, (the locker room) was all about me. That includes members of his own team, many of which have gone on record publicly about the difference they have noticed in one year under Beamer.
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