Everything Shane Beamer said about South Carolina spring practice on Tuesday
Staley and the awesome season that they had. Obviously, I know it was a disappointing finish, but what a year, and they accomplished so much. I’m so excited for the future. Exciting seeing all the Gamecocks down in Tampa the other day, as well as being down there for the championship game. Just got off the practice field. Sorry, I’m a couple of minutes late. Just finished practice nine, I guess, and loved the way we worked today. Challenged our guys this morning, our first scrimmage of the year on Saturday. So, human nature, you have a scrimmage, had a couple days off, or Sunday off, and then you come back in here and just kind of take a breath and coast and don’t get better today. And that was the opposite of what our guys showed. Thought we had a great day out there today. Very spirited, very intense, very energetic, for sure. Got a lot of situational work in today, introduced two two-minute offense as well. We know that wins and loses games. You can look back at our game last year against Alabama, two-minute situations before the half and in the fourth quarter on offense and defense. You look at Missouri, we scored in a two-minute drill before the half, and then obviously we had a two-minute drill to win the game as well. And then games that we lost where we gave up points before the half on defense, LSU and Ole Miss, and understanding that in this league, every game is close, and it’s a small margin for error. Those two-minute opportunities can be the difference in winning and losing.
“So, got some great situational work today. We’ll be back out on the field on Thursday, back in the stadium Saturday for another scrimmage, and then finish up next week as well. But really like the way we’re working. I like this group. Getting a lot of young guys a lot of work. It’s been fun coaching this group and seeing us just continue to get better through the first what is it is two-thirds, I guess, of spring ball. So excited about the remainder of it as we go forward.
