![]() “I’ll wait to talk to him first,” Riley said. He was not with the team on Saturday night when Oklahoma beat Baylor and Sooners coach Lincoln Riley declined to confirm reports. The younger Beamer has spent the past three seasons as assistant head coach and tight ends coach at Oklahoma. This is the first head coaching job for Beamer, the son of former Virginia Tech coach Frank Beamer who served on the Gamecocks’ staff from 2007-2010 under former coach Steve Spurrier. The person spoke to the AP on the condition of anonymity because South Carolina has not yet made the hire officials. Muschamp was let go last month with three games remaining in the season. (AP) - Shane Beamer is returning to South Carolina, this time as head football coach.Ī source close to the search told The Associated Press on Saturday night that Beamer will be hired and take over the program run the past five seasons by Will Muschamp. So we continue to make some strides there, make some big plays. The punt return and the kickoff return that gave us momentum, got our team, the crowd everybody energized. "Probably the most dominant side of all was the special teams," Riley said. ![]() Meanwhile, the Sooners never allowed UCLA to return a punt, and the Bruins got just 15 yards on their only kickoff return. ![]() Two plays later, Kyler Murray threw a 10-yard touchdown pass to A.D. In the third quarter, Lamb's big return gave the Sooners possession at the UCLA 11. Three plays later, Rodney Anderson scored from 3 yards out, and the Sooners tied the score. Right after the Bruins scored a touchdown to go up 7-0, Brown returned the kickoff 86 yards to the UCLA 12-yard line. On Saturday, the special teams stunted UCLA's momentum. For the players to have buy-in and the effort and the energy they have makes all of our jobs as coaches a lot easier." It starts with coach Riley and the emphasis he puts on special teams and it goes downhill from there. Bolton, for example, is a starting linebacker. "We certainly want to put pressure on people."īeamer said the coaches have been willing to put some of the team's best athletes on special teams. "We want to be aggressive in the things that we do in the game and attack, and not sit back and be passive," Shane Beamer said. The Sooners have yet another weapon at their disposal when they seek payback from last year's stunning 38-31 home loss to Iowa State. Now, son Shane has the same type of imprint all over Oklahoma's game. įormer Virginia Tech coach Frank Beamer is the originator of "Beamer Ball," a term coined to describe his opportunistic special teams units. In Saturday's game against UCLA, the Sooners did it with the return game - Tre Brown had 121 yards on two kickoff returns and CeeDee Lamb had a 66-yard punt return during a 49-21 win. In the opener, Lee Morris blocked a punt and Curtis Bolton recovered it in the end zone for a touchdown that helped spark a 63-14 victory over Florida Atlantic. Oklahoma brought in Shane Beamer from Georgia in the offseason to help Jay Boulware run special teams, and the move has paid off immediately. ![]() (AP) - As if Iowa State doesn't have enough to worry about with revenge-minded Oklahoma visiting on Saturday, the Cyclones will have to deal with the full force of "Beamer Ball."
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