Dabo Swinney Had Classy Words For Shane Beamer After Clemson Beat South Carolina

Dabo Swinney extended immoderate empathy for rival coach Shane Beamer aft Clemson took down South Carolina 28–14 connected Saturday. The crippled marked nan disappointing solution of nan Gamecocks’ season, which saw them decorativeness 4–8.

South Carolina went into nan 2025 play classed No. 13 and coming disconnected a promising 9–4 run a twelvemonth ago. They proved incapable to build disconnected those efforts, alternatively doubling their nonaccomplishment full from 2024 and failing to suffice for a vessel game. Their play culminated pinch a nonaccomplishment to their in-state rivals, only adding to nan sour sensation this twelvemonth has produced.

After nan game, Swinney was seen extending support to Beamer’s family, sharing a hug pinch his wife and son.

“I’ve sewage a batch of respect for Shane and what he’s done here,” Swinney said aft nan game. “My bosom hurts for him and Emily because I’ve been connected nan different broadside of it. But I’m proud of our guys.”

Swinney besides stuck up for Beamer by recalling immoderate of nan ups and downs his ain Clemson teams person undergone during his tenure. “All I tin show you, Shane’s bully shot coach, amended person, and he cares,” Swinney said. “I deliberation these are reactionary games wherever you tin really overreact. I mislaid 5 successful a row, and we were really bully teams. And again, we had 15 turnovers to their three. And that was a bad run. But we were a bully team, and they were a bully team, but you bent in. I’m gladsome that Clemson group didn’t springiness up connected me.”

Beamer addressed his team’s shortcomings arsenic good connected Saturday pursuing their loss. He said earlier this period that adjacent twelvemonth South Carolina will beryllium tuning successful to nan College Football Playoff rankings show to spot wherever they land, and has doubled down that adjacent twelvemonth will beryllium overmuch much successful.

“I dislike that we’ve gone done this,” Beamer said. “I dislike it for nan seniors that don’t travel back. But I tin 1 cardinal percent committedness you this. When we person a hellhole of a play successful 2026 and erstwhile I’m doing this property convention aft nan Clemson crippled adjacent twelvemonth and we vanished a regular play because of nan occurrence that we're going to person adjacent season, I cognize we will. We’re going to look backmost astatine this play and say, ‘It sucked going done it, but because of what we went done successful ’25, it led america to what we conscionable did successful ’26.’”

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