Three takeaways from Shane Beamer’s media availability in Charleston
1- 2024 class ready to go
With the majority of South Carolina’s 2024 class enrolling early, this past semester, that left only a handful of commits who weren’t here in the spring. By the end of the end of the month, that will change.
“They’ll all be there. Matthew Fuller literally is texting me right now before I walked up about how eager he is to get to Columbia,” said Shane Beamer. “Michael Smith and Jalewis (Solomon), the’ll all be there Memorial Day is when they come in. A couple days before Memorial Day, actually. So the end of the month they’ll all be here. (Jerome) Simmons will be a little bit later than those guys. And then we’ve got a good group of walk-ons that are joining the program as well. They’ll all be here by the middle of June. We should have everybody in Columbia, scholarship-wise, before June 1. Everybody on the roster, except Simmons, by the middle of June. Simmons will be shortly thereafter. We’re going to try to get them ready to play.”
2- Being proactive
On Wednesday, Shane Beamer paid the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs a visit. But it wasn’t just to reconnect with an old co-worker from his Oklahoma days.
“Part of the reason I went out where I did and met with some of the people I met with, just talking about how in the summertime we can maybe structure it even better to get those guys ready to play even quicker, whether it be summer workouts in June and July or the way we do preseason practice,” said Beamer. “One thing for us is looking at just August and how we structure things that we need to tweak things to be a little bit better coming out of the gate. We didn’t start very good last season, the year before we started out 1-2 losing to Georgia and Arkansas. So looking at, ‘Okay, I like what we do in August, but are there some ways we can tweak it to be even better, maybe a little bit healthier and fresher starting.”
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One thing that has been frustrating for South Carolina coaches, players, and fans alike have been injuries in recent years. While injuries are part of the game, it feels like the Gamecocks see a different positional room get plagued each year. Beamer has mentioned this offseason that they’ve looked at how and why some of these injuries keep happening. While some have been fluky, this shows that the Gamecocks are being proactive in trying to do their best of making sure there isn’t a repeat of injuries this year.
3- Giving back
Last summer, Xavier Legette shared that during the off-season, he trained with former Gamecock and current San Francisco 49ers wide out Deebo Samuel. A few months later, former South Carolina defensive lineman told GamecockCentral during a Mix in a Water Monday segment that Samuel has secretly been doing this for several years now, not doing it for any attention. That training session took place around the week of Fourth of July.
Beamer was asked if he knows if any current Gamecocks have plans to be training with former South Carolina players who are in the NFL.
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“I know we have some guys this month that are going some places together. I don’t know if it’s necessarily with a pro athlete that I’m aware of. But we’ve got some guys, when I met with them at the end of spring and had some exit meetings, they talked about they were going to go to Miami and train together for four days, or they were going to go to Atlanta for three or four days and train together. And they’ll obviously be working with someone and some people. Specifics, I don’t know. We’ve got a lot of guys doing that here in the month of May, which is great. And then in the summertime, they’re pretty structured with it in June and July.”
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