“A lot of guys don’t get another chance, to start over where they’re really wanted,” Rattler said. South Carolina will serve as a second chance for Rattler. Landing with Coach Beamer at South Carolina was the perfect landing spot for Rattler. You can just feel it here, this community, this city, these fans. “South Carolina had everything I was looking for, and I feel like it’s more impressive if you go to a school that’s coming up and do it there, with great teammates around you, than to go somewhere like Alabama and win games.
“I was blown away, and knowing Coach Beamer from when he was an assistant at Oklahoma and the way he rides with his players, I knew I could trust him,” Rattler told Chris Low of ESPN. Hooking up with former OU assistant turned Gamecocks head coach Shane Beamer, Rattler shared his excitement to go somewhere he could be a part of building something. In a conversation with ESPN’s Chris Low, Rattler spent sometime discussing the things that went on during the 2021 season and his journey to South Carolina. 1 quarterback in the 2019 recruiting class. Rattler would see playing time in the second half against Texas and Texas Tech, but the writing was on the wall for the former No. Williams would come into the game and the rest was history. Rattler stayed the starter but former Sooners head coach Lincoln Riley had a leash on his starter and pulled him after two turnovers in the first half of the Red River Showdown. Rattler became the target of fan frustrations in their win 16-13 win over West Virginia when select fans in the student section began chanting “we want Caleb.” Rattler, along with much of the offense, was inconsistent through the first few weeks of the season. After being benched for the second straight year in the Red River Showdown for Caleb Williams, the transfer portal was the most likely destination for the former starting quarterback. UPDATE: South Carolina made the hiring official, and Beamer got emotional while walking around Williams-Brice Stadium.The end of Spencer Rattler’s time at Oklahoma was expected. And he’s surely learned a thing or two about coaching from his dad. Working with Riley in Oklahoma’s innovative offense has likely taught him some things. He has a lot of experience recruiting, and he’s worked as an assistant coach on both sides of the ball at various positions. So, this is Beamer’s first head coaching job, but he has a lot of history as an assistant at big programs, and is very familiar with the SEC (he even was a graduate assistant at Tennessee and cornerbacks coach/recruiting coordinator at Mississippi State in the early 2000s). He left South Carolina to be an assistant head coach and running backs coach for his father at Virginia Tech in 2011-15 (he also played at Virginia Tech as a wide receiver and long snapper in 1995-99), before going back to the SEC to join Georgia as a tight ends coach and special teams coordinator in 2016-17. The 43-year-old has a history at South Carolina, serving as cornerbacks coach for the Gamecocks in 2007-08, as well as outside linebackers coach and special teams coordinator for the Gamecocks in 2009-10.
0 kommentar(er)
