![]() “He has worked under some of the greatest coaches in college football and has taken those lessons to become one of the bright, young minds in the game. ![]() “I believe that Shane Beamer is the perfect fit to be the head football coach at the University of South Carolina,” Tanner said in a statement announcing Beamer’s hiring. Last week, we reported that Oklahoma University assistant coach Shane Beamer was the favorite to replace Muschamp as the Gamecocks’ head coach – and this week the school made it official. Like we said, terminal velocity … and it isn’t just football that is struggling since Tanner became athletics director. The program has endured three more losses under his hand-picked offensive coordinator, Mike Bobo – including a 41-18 blowout defeat at the hands of the Kentucky Wildcats on Saturday. Muschamp’s Gamecocks lost thirteen of their last nineteen games – a stretch that included ten double-digit defeats and seven losses by margins of twenty or more points. He went 17-22 against conference opponents, 3-15 against ranked opponents, 1-2 in bowl games and 0-4 against arch-rival Clemson.Īgainst top SEC East rivals, Muschamp was 1-3 against his alma mater Georgia and 1-4 against his former Florida team. Muschamp was relieved of his duties on Novemafter posting a 28-30 record in four-and-a-half seasons at the helm of the once-proud Gamecock program. ![]() More egregiously, Tanner extended Muschamp’s contract (which included a massive buyout clause) despite middling returns. Tanner, of course, is responsible for bringing Will Muschamp to South Carolina despite the coach’s previous flameout at Florida. Whether Tanner winds up selecting a miracle worker or another dud … there is no way he should have kept his job at South Carolina (let alone been entrusted with the task of righting a program that has achieved terminal velocity under his watch). First of all, we need to reiterate that the University of South Carolina abjectly failed when it allowed eighth-year athletics director Ray Tanner to have anything to do with the search for its new head football coach.
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