In addition to mentioning that you are enjoying a local barbecue while it resembles Columbia, Luke Day quickly learned what South Carolina football means to its fan base and culture coach Shane Beamer is trying to build through his team.
As a guest on the JB and Goldwater program on Monday afternoon, Gamecock’s head strength and conditioning trainer measured his temperature on the program.
“This is a group of people and a fan base that loves South Carolina,” said Day. “They are very proud of their program and should be. So far, my experience and interactions in this city, community and university have been nothing short of special. That’s what the people here deserve, a program to be very proud of, which corresponds to their pride and how they think of South Carolina football. ”
The Gamecocks field training team is now complete. Beamer’s 10 technical assistants are hired and their contracts approved. As Day spends more than a week in the building with his new co-workers, see a group with a desire to be in Columbia.
“I look like a broken record,” said Day. “I see a lot of people whose number one concern is ‘How can we reach young people and how do we train and do it very, very well every day?’ They are not training X’s and O’s or magnets on a white board. They are people who are trying to find their place in the world. We have a tremendous group of people that Coach Beamer has brought together. Make no mistake, this is a business, but it is a human business. It is as good or better a group of people gathered as anywhere I have been. “
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Gamecocks are in the winter exercise program for a whole week. Day also praised the players he was with in the weight room.
“The players here desperately want someone to come here and invest in them as men, as human beings, as football players,” said Day. “‘Let’s go to work, show us.’ They have received much of what we have offered so far. I am not naive. We’re on our honeymoon right now. We will have a discussion on the way home from Disney World. Right now, there is an intention and I want to work well. We have to build on that, but we have a great start. “