South Carolina Gamecocks trainer Shane Beamer he has another vacancy to fill in his technical committee.
With Des Kitchings now leaving to work in the NFL, the first year coach from South Carolina is looking for a new running back coach. Florida A&M coach Willie Simmons was considered the main candidate for the position, but he chose to remain in the current position.
Now, according to Football Scoop, Virginia’s wide receiver coach Marques Hagans was appointed as the successor to Kitchings. Below are excerpts from Hagans’ profile on virginiasports.com.
Marques Hagans enters his ninth season in Virginia as a full-time technical assistant and his sixth in the Bronco Mendenhall team as a wide receiver coach. Hagans spent the 2011 and 2012 seasons at UVA as a graduate assistant, working with crime.
Hagans was the winner of four cards in the 2002-05 UVA and is currently seventh in UVA passes with 4,877 yards. He finished his career in fifth place, but has already been overtaken by Jameel Seweel and Marc Verica, the two starting defenders who followed him in Charlottesville. Hagans in 5th place of all time in the UVA in the total attack with 5,779 yards and their 2005 season ranked 3rd of all time with 2,802 yards. Only his predecessor, Matt Schaub (2002 and 2003), and current quarterback Matt Johns (2015) had better seasons in the annals of the UVA compared to the total attack.
Hagans is a native of Hampton, Va., And graduated from Hampton High School after spending two years at nearby Bethel High School. As a junior at Hampton, Hagans led the Crabbers to the state championship in AAA Group, Division 5 of the Virginia High School League in 1998. Hampton advanced to the state semifinals in the 1999 Hagans senior season.
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Hagans, who graduated from Virginia in 2005 with a degree in anthropology, was chosen in the fifth round by the Saint Louis Rams in 2006. He played for three other NFL teams, before retiring in 2010: Kansas City, Indianapolis and Washington.
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