Beamer On Nick Gargiulo: "Everything You Want In An Offensive Lineman"

Shane Beamer and South Carolina's Football team desperately need multiple offensive linemen to step up, and Yale Transfer Nick Gargiulo is doing his part.

The South Carolina Gamecocks will have many new faces in their starting lineup when they take the field for their Spring game on April 15th. This reality will be none more evident than with Lonnie Teasley's offensive line unit, which is replacing 124 career starts between the departures of Eric Douglas, Jovaughn Gwyn, and Dylan Wonnum.

Despite signing some talented offensive line prospects in the 2023 recruiting cycle, Shane Beamer and his staff knew they needed to find a portal offensive lineman that both possessed experience and could make an immediate impact. They found both in transfer lineman Nick Gargiulo, who played at Yale for four seasons, playing in 25 games and being voted as the sole team captain for the Bulldogs last fall, a prestigious honor in Yale's Football program.

So far in Spring practice, Gargiulo has been splitting his time between center and left guard, but either way has, for the time being, seemingly garnered a stranglehold over a starting spot. According to Shane Beamer's comments from his media availability on Tuesday afternoon, this development is because Gargiulo does everything that the offensive line position demands of a football player.

"He's everything you want in an offensive lineman. He's tough, nasty, dependable [and] smart. He plays the game that we want the game to be played like on our team and on our offensive line. We're a better team when he's on the field, and he's got position flexibility. He can [play] some center, he can play some guard, and the more you can do, the better."

While plenty of time remains before the Gamecocks square off against the North Carolina Tar Heels on September 2nd, South Carolina's coaching staff would undoubtedly like to have a decent idea of what their starting group on the offensive line would look like sooner rather than later. The arrival of Nick Gargiulo has brought some stability regarding that aspect.

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