Clemson football fans should not worry about hiring the new South Carolina coach
Clemson football rival South Carolina hired a coach after Will Muschamp’s resignation just weeks ago.
It was reported last week that the Gamecocks would sign Shane Beamer – the current Oklahoma TE coach and the son of legendary coach Frank Beamer. He gave his introductory press conference on Monday afternoon and South Carolina fans everywhere were back on board.
Although Beamer never had experience as a head coach, he is just a position coach and, in fact, nothing more than a ‘cheerleader’, that was the decision that South Carolina chose to make.
Does that sound familiar?
Imitations are the best form of compliment, but they don’t work. There is only one Clemson football
We all know that the Midlands program has been living sadly in the shadows of Clemson’s football program for some time.
They remember the days when they mocked Dabo Swinney and called him nothing more than an inexperienced cheerleader.
Now, after Muschamp’s failed experiment, Gamecocks are looking for their own Dabo Swinney, but we all know that imitations are nothing like the original copy.
You can try to copy a project and hope for the best, but it will never be like the real thing. It’s as if Gamecocks are trying to become Clemson’s side brand. Oh how times have changed.
Beamer will bring some new energy to this program, but the truth is that he simply won’t be able to compete with Swinney and what the Tigers have built in his state. South Carolina has traditionally been a mediocre program – except for those few years with Steve Spurrier – and this is a mediocre hiring at best.
It will be one that Gamecock fans will have a good facade for, but you know it must be disappointing when you are the first debut in the country and end up going with Beamer – a guy who certainly should have gone further on the list than Billy Napier and Jamey Chadwell, in my opinion.
This may turn out well, but we all know that South Carolina has been the ‘graveyard for coaching careers’ and there is nothing here that tells me that this will be anything other than just another giant flop.