Since taking over as head coach for South Carolina Gamecocks, Shane Beamer studied some situations you might encounter on game days this fall.
Analysis in football is relatively new to the game, especially for a first-year head coach who never had to make the decision to kick or risk in the fourth and final position on his own side of the field. Before Beamer makes these split-second decisions, he wants to learn about the pros and cons of football analysis.
“I think it’s something, as a head coach now, I certainly need to and I have to continue studying and hugging, to a certain extent,” said Beamer, while speaking to ‘3 Man Front’ at 94.5 JOX FM.
“I still am, if you want to call it ‘old school’, that’s fine, but there is also a feeling and intuition about how the games are going. But it is certainly something that I am not just burying my head in the sand and pretending that it cannot have an impact and is not beneficial. “
Beamer has several months before deciding what his approach will be.
“At the moment, I am somewhere in the middle and I want to continue researching this,” he said. “There’s a big analytical study out there that I’ve spent the last few days just studying, going back and looking at the decisions that were made – not the most recent Super Bowl, but in the Super Bowls before, and just looking at how the decisions that were made 10 years old.
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“It was a fascinating study for me to read. Decisions that were made 10 years ago at the Super Bowl. Consider, for example, a team that goes to the court for 1 from its own 47-yard line. Ten years ago, this would probably never happen.
“Now, a lot more is happening, so just see how things have changed and I think you always have to be comfortable with the discomfort and the will to grow. I certainly want to continue to study and research as well. “