“They believe, they have confidence, we’re a really good SEC football team and we have a lot of players on this team that Georgia wanted on their team, and Georgia has a lot of players we wanted,” Beamer said. RELATED: Betting lines for SEC games, Georgia a huge road favoriteīeamer’s Gamecocks don’t figure to be up to the level of Georgia on Saturday - the Bulldogs are 26-point favorites.īut like Smart at Georgia, Beamer concedes nothing and is all in on his players and program. “They have an excellent staff at South Carolina, and (he’s) created an environment of competition for their program to compete at a high level.”
“He’s created a lot of energy through his program through enthusiasm,” said Smart, who had known Beamer for years before hiring him. Smart knows all about Beamer’s success, and despite the border-state rivalry, he went out of his way to note how his former assistant is blazing his own trail. So now it’s Beamer calling the shots for his own program, managing a veteran coaching staff and coaching up elite talent like Oklahoma transfer Spencer Rattler. 'McFadden, Peyton Hillis and Felix Jones, yeah I think they each ran for 500 yards a piece,' Beamer said. Arkansas ran for 542 yards as a team that day, and Darren McFadden accounted for 321 of them. RELATED: The Kirby Bowl: Sam Pittman’s Hogs top Shane Beamer’s Gamecocks Beamer was a part of the South Carolina coaching staff when the Gamecocks lost to the Hogs 48-36 in Fayetteville. “But when you talk about all the places I’ve been as a coach, and coaches I’ve taken things from as far as this organization, a lot of it came from my time with Kirby.” “There are a lot of things we do here that I took directly from my time at Georgia, and there are things we don’t do,” Beamer said.
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“That was a really, really beneficial two years to be with him.”īeamer had a front-row seat to see Smart tweak and install a process similar to Nick Saban’s at Alabama, where Smart was part of four national title teams and worked nine years as an assistant. “Kirby Smart made me a better football coach,” Beamer said. RELATED: How SEC teams stack up in league power rankings Beamer was on Smart’s original UGA staff in 20 and saw how Smart went about building the foundation for a program that has become so dynamic that it could lose record-15 players to the NFL draft and be ranked No.
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