Shane Beamer Promises Big 2026 For South Carolina After 4-8 Campaign

South Carolina entered nan 2025 play classed No. 13 nationally pinch a second-year starting backmost successful LaNorris Sellers who garnered plentifulness of Heisman hype.

A play that began pinch truthful overmuch committedness ended pinch a thud connected Saturday, erstwhile nan Gamecocks fell 28-14 astatine location to in-state rival Clemson, concluding a 4-8 campaign.

While caput coach Shane Beamer lamented nan measurement nan play went, he already has an oculus to 2026.

"I dislike that we've gone done this," Beamer said connected Saturday. "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.'"

The 2026 play could surely beryllium a make-or-break twelvemonth for Beamer. It will beryllium his sixth twelvemonth successful Columbia, and nan schoolhouse will surely beryllium tasked pinch making decisions if nan twelvemonth goes arsenic poorly arsenic it did this season.

He knows it, and he's intelligibly embracing it.

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