Dakereon Joyner and Juju McDowell will start camp as the top two backs with transfer Mario Anderson and freshman Dontavius Braswell expected to compete for time as well. After witnessing the Gamecocks slowly but surely lose grip of the lead they held for most of the game, an emotional Shane Beamer spoke to the media in attendance afterward and had a lot to say. With the exception of projected starting left tackle Jaylen Nichols, who was injured in the spring game, Beamer said everyone who has been dealing with injury recovery is in good shape though a few will be brought along slowly at the start of practice.īeamer added that the offensive line plans are still in the transformative stage as each lineman has cross trained at multiple positions, so the plan will be to find the top eight linemen and go from there in preparation for North Carolina.īeamer also said he’s not opposed to a running back by committee situation. The Gamecocks will open their season in Charlotte on September 2nd against North Carolina.īeamer said his players are ready to get on the practice field following what he believes was a very successful off-season. This Q&A session came six days after Beamer made the rounds in Nashville at SEC Media Days.īeamer will do one more pre-season press conference in Columbia August 3rd before his team begins fall practice the next day. Talking Season continued Wednesday for USC football coach Shane Beamer as he held a half-hour press conference following his annual Birdies with Beamer media golf outing at Cobblestone Park Golf Club in Blythewood. I’d like, just once in my life, for our opposing fans to be thinking “Man, I haaaate seeing that South Carolina offense trot onto the field.” In fact, I want opposing fans to be wildly queasy when they think about our offense, and maybe even start vomiting uncontrollably.Shane Beamer takes questions from the media Wednesday I’d feel better if I saw the Gamecocks explode into an undiscovered solar system offensively – just once in my life. Scott Davis has followed the South Carolina Gamecocks football program for more than 40 years and provides commentary from a fan perspective. Ultimately, South Carolina’s “three seasons of 3,000 passing yards in the 21st Century” number was largely in line with what its conference peers have been producing.īut enough with the facts. South Carolina football coach Shane Beamer meets with the media today (Joe Macheca/Gamecock Central). Alabama had just three at that point, as did LSU. The most recent statistics I could find for 3,000-yard seasons was back in 2018, and more 3,000-yard seasons have happened since then, but as you’ll find here ( 3,000-yard passers in 2018? Every SEC team’s history and chances), few of South Carolina’s SEC brethren have stockpiled a host of 3,000-yard passing years.Īs of 2018, Auburn had just two 3,000-yard passing years in its storied history. But feelings aren’t facts.Īnd the facts tell us that throwing for 3,000 yards in a single season remains a high hurdle. Even under the allegedly pass-wild Spurrier, the Gamecocks were a fairly balanced offensive unit that never resembled those free-for-all offenses you see in the Big 12. Wins are wins, man.īut if we could choose…well, we’d choose to follow a team that went 12-0 and also eviscerated defenses with a high-octane passing offense that was so fearsome it inspired some ridiculous nickname like “Air Supply” or “Bomb Squad.” What can I tell you? The American people like to watch footballs being thrown and caught with reckless abandon.Īs I’ve written many times, being a fan is a feeling more than it is a rational act, and the truth is, it just hasn’t felt like the South Carolina program has been at the forefront of offensive imagination over the years in terms of its passing attack and quarterback play. We really don’t care if South Carolina goes 12-0 by running up the middle on every down, compiling 150 yards of total offense, and winning every game 10-7, with at least some of those points coming off a recovered fumble. That number seemed surprisingly low to me, particularly when I considered that the Gamecocks were coached by Steve Spurrier for more than a decade, and when I recalled that the likes of Ole Miss’ Chad Kelly, of all people, actually threw for FOUR THOUSAND yards in a single season a few years back. Three thousand wasn’t Mission Impossible, was it?īut as the story reveals, a South Carolina quarterback has only thrown for 3,000 yards just three times since 2000 (for the record, it happened in 2010 with Stephen Garcia, in 2014 with Dylan Thompson and in 2018 with Jake Bentley). Look, 3,000 yards will always be an impressive feat for a college QB, but this isn’t 1973 anymore, and it’s happening more and more in the pass-happy 21st Century. While we’re here, Rattler has already thrown for 3,000 yards once in his career (albeit while wearing an Oklahoma Sooners uniform). The Gamecocks return some offensive weapons this year, added still more in the offseason, and the unit has had a year to figure out offensive coordinator Marcus Satterfield’s complex system.
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