According to a FootballScoop.com report, South Carolina’s first-year football coach Shane Beamer you’re almost done with your team. Beamer, according to the report, has his eye on the veteran offensive line coach Greg Adkins.
Adkins, who graduated from Marshall, has been on the show for three seasons. He had at least one offensive striker at every conference each season during his time with the program and had two in 2020.
Adkins has some experience at the Southeast Conference, working in Georgia from 1996-2000 and Tennessee from 2003-08. Beamer, along with the offensive coordinator Marcus Satterfield, was with Adkins in Tennessee in 2003. He also worked in Oklahoma and Buffalo Bills, among other stops.
In addition to the Adkins report, FootballScoop.com also reported that Ahmad Smith is coming to South Carolina as a defensive analyst. Smith has the new defensive coordinator Clayton White the past three seasons in Western Kentucky. Smith played for Indiana State and worked on the defense of the Hilltoppers.
Here is the Adkins biography of Marshall Athletics: In 2020, Adkins will enter his third season as coach of Marshall’s offensive line.
In 2019, he mentored the All-Conference USA center for the first team Levi Brown and second professor Cain Madden.
During the 2018 campaign, he mentored the All-Conference USA center for the first team Levi Brown and commanded a unit that protected 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.