For the first time since SEC Media Days last week, Shane Beamer will meet with the South Carolina media.<\/p>\n
Beamer will address the local media fully really for the first time since spring practice ended and is now a week out from the start of preseason camp.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Gamecocks\u2019 head coach held his annual media golf outing Wednesday afternoon and will have a press conference Wednesday around 2 p.m. He\u2019ll update the status of the team, preview camp and much more.<\/p>\n
[VIP Tickets now available: Gamecock Central Kickoff Party 2023!]<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n GamecockCentral is on hand providing live updates from the Beamer media availability.\u00a0<\/p>\n South Carolina is coming off an 8-4 regular season that ended with a loss in the Gator Bowl to Notre Dame. The Gamecocks, after an inconsistent first 10 weeks of the season, ended the year with a bang with wins over Tennessee and Clemson.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Gamecocks get quarterback Spencer Rattler back for another season, the first time there\u2019s been an incumbent quarterback since Jake Bentley heading into the 2019 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n [Get news from GamecockCentral via email]<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Preseason camp starts next week and will run for a month leading up to the season opener against North Carolina in Charlotte. That game is scheduled for Sept. 1 at 7:30 p.m. ET on ABC.\u00a0<\/p>\n That game will get the red carpet with ESPN\u2019s College GameDay in attendance in the first game of year three under Beamer.<\/p>\n ESPN\u2019s College GameDay Built by The Home Depot will kick off the 2023 college football season on Saturday, Sept. 2, in Charlotte, N.C., before the South Carolina Gamecocks face the North Carolina Tar Heels in the Duke\u2019s Mayo Classic. The three-hour show (9 a.m. ET) will be live from Romare Bearden Park in uptown Charlotte to kick off GameDay\u2019s 37th season and 30th year of road shows, which have become synonymous with college football Saturdays over the past three decades.<\/p>\n One of the premier matchups of Week 1, the \u2018Battle of the Carolinas\u2019 neutral site game between SEC and ACC rivals will be played at Bank of America Stadium in primetime on ABC (7:30 p.m.). The game location is also significant with the ACC offices now headquartered in Charlotte.<\/p>\n This will be College GameDay\u2019s 440th road show all-time \u2013 and the first-ever visit to a South Carolina-North Carolina game. The Gamecock\u2019s last GameDay appearance was 2014, while the Tar Heels appeared in 2010. This is the third trip to uptown Charlotte for College GameDay in recent years. The show also originated from Romare Bearden Park before the 2017 ACC Championship Game and the 2021 Duke\u2019s Mayo Classic when Georgia faced Clemson in a Week 1 top-five showdown.<\/p>\n Rece Davis hosts the three-hour College GameDay joined by analysts Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit, Desmond Howard and Pat McAfee with college football insider Pete Thamel and reporters Jen Lada and Jess Sims.<\/p>\n Tickets to sit in the Gamecock section are available\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Before this first road show of the season, College GameDay will host a two-hour preview show (10 a.m. \u2013 noon) in Week 0 from ESPN\u2019s Bristol, Conn., studios on Saturday, August 26.<\/p>\n In 2022, College GameDay delivered its most-viewed college football regular season, averaging 2.1 million viewers. In all, college football\u2019s most-watched pregame show delivered a 10% increase over the prior year and nine episodes of at least two million viewers.<\/p>\n [Subscribe to GamecockCentral\u2019s YouTube page]<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n ESPN\u2019s Expanded Digital Coverage<\/strong><\/p>\n ESPN\u2019s social and digital pre-pregame show, Countdown to GameDay, will also return for the 2023 season ahead of Week 1\u2019s GameDay in Charlotte with hosts Christine Williamson, Harry Douglas and Harry Lyles Jr. The show is available across Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and the ESPN App at 8:30 a.m. ET weekly.<\/p>\n Additional details and information regarding College GameDay\u2019s Week 1 show, including special guests, will be announced in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n The post Live updates: Shane Beamer media availability (July 26)<\/a> appeared first on On3<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For the first time since SEC Media Days last week, Shane Beamer will meet with…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Follow along for live updates here.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n
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