Shane Beamer Clarifies Opening Comments From Post-Florida Press Conference

South Carolina Football coach Shane Beamer came under some fire for some comments he made on Saturday, which he decided to address on Sunday.

No coach ever wants to find themselves in a position where they have to go back and clarify a series of statements or the meaning behind them, but that's the situation Shane Beamer found himself in during his weekly Sunday teleconference call tonight. After being called out by some on social media for seemingly throwing some of his defensive players under the bus for their lack of execution on certain concepts the Gamecocks tried to employ in their loss to Florida on Saturday, Beamer began his teleconference call tonight by clarifying his remarks.

"Going back to last night, a couple things that certainly I wanted to clarify and address. One was I made a comment about not running pressures and I think that came across as, you know, we’re calling something and guys aren’t running them. That’s not necessarily the case," Beamer stated. "We didn’t do a great job of adjusting. Sometimes we did well, [but] we just weren’t consistent enough on adjusting to those pressures or adjusting to [Florida's] formations, and then when we did run the pressures, I didn’t think our mentality in running the pressure was what it needed to be, if that makes sense. When we call a pressure, we need to hit it and we need to go, and it needs to be very evident that we’re bringing extra people," Beamer elaborated.

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Shane then addressed the criticism for seemingly not harboring any of the blame.

"I didn’t think we were great at [adjusting] last night and ultimately that’s on us as coaches, which leads me to the second part. I’m certainly aware that much is being made of some of my comments when I was asked about what I saw on defense and I gave specific examples. Anybody that has covered this program and knows me knows that I have always come into those post-game press conferences after a poor performance and saying, you know, something along the lines of 'I didn’t do a good enough job coaching and ultimately it’s on me and I’m responsible.' That has always been the case and last night was no different," Beamer explained. "My frustrations last night were the fact that we were in position to make those plays and we didn’t make them and ultimately that’s on us as coaches for not having our guys, starting with me as the head football coach, not having our guys in, not just in position to make those plays, but getting it done.

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