There is a new offensive line coach for the South Carolina Gamecocks.
Shane Beamer is set to add Greg Adkins to your team, about two weeks later Will be friend left to accept the job at Auburn. Beamer brought Amigo on board instead of Eric Wolford, which is now in Kentucky.
Marshall’s Adkins has been on the show for three seasons. He has had at least one offensive striker in every conference every season during his time with Thundering Herd. They had two in 2020.
Adkins has experience at SEC East, working in Georgia (1996-2000) and Tennessee (2003-08). Beamer and offensive coordinator Marcus Satterfield were graduate assistants in Tennessee in 2003.
South Carolina’s newest assistant coach also worked in Oklahoma State and the NFL with Buffalo Bills.
Here is the biography of Adkins on the Marshall website …
In 2020, Adkins will enter his third season as coach of Marshall’s offensive line.
In 2019, he mentored the center of the All Conference USA main team, Levi Brown, and runner-up Cain Madden.
During the 2018 campaign, he mentored the first team’s All-Conference USA center, Levi Brown, and led a unit that protected redshirt freshman quarterback Isaiah Green on his way to nine wins and a seventh consecutive bowl victory.
Adkins, a four-year offensive striker and a graduate of Thundering Herd in 1990, previously trained in Marshall for five seasons (defensive line, tight end, offensive line) from 1991-95 and helped guide the program to the national I-AA championship 1992 and three more appearances in the national title game I-AA (1991, ’93, ’95).
The Cross Lanes native and a graduate of Nitro High School returns to Huntington from Charlotte, where he was the 49ers offensive line coach, racing game coordinator and interim offensive coordinator.
Prior to that, he trained offensive lines in the State of Oklahoma (2015-17), Syracuse (2009-12), Tennessee (2003-08), Troy (2001-02) and Georgia (1996-200). He also handled recruiting roles in Syracuse, Tennessee and Troy. In Georgia, he also trained tight end and defensive line and mentored Tennessee’s tight end during his time there.
Adkins, who has more than 25 years of experience as a coach and has played 12 bowl games, also had a stint in the National Football League, serving as the Buffalo Bills’ hard-hitting coach in 2013-14.
The South Carolina Board of Trustees is due to meet on Friday to approve more football coach contracts. Adkins will probably be among them. Stay tuned to TheBigSpur for more coverage of Beamer’s team, which now has all 10 assistants on site.