"After my first season here, I'm not going to abandon my philosophy," Annan said. Instead, his focus was to take it one day at a time and instill his style of play in his team. Despite the record, Annan was not focused on results. In his first season with the Gamecocks, the team finished 5-9-2 overall. "At the end of the day, you can work at any level you want to, but it's about the people you work with and it's about the people that you're surrounded with." "When I came to visit, I really felt at home and comfortable," Annan said. Beamer ended his first season with a victory in the Duke's Mayo Bowl as well as securing the First-Year Coach of the Year, presented by Gamecock football legend Steve Spurrier.īefore Annan took over in April 2021, Mark Berson had been the head men's soccer coach for 40 seasons after he established the program in 1978.Īnnan said he hopes to be well-liked among players and staff like Berson was. In Beamer’s first season, the Gamecocks improved from 2-8 to 6-6 and became eligible for a bowl game for the first time in three seasons. “Today is an absolute dream come true - not just to be a head football coach in the Southeastern Conference, but to be the head coach at the University of South Carolina.” “It’s an absolute honor to be the head football coach here at the University of South Carolina,” Beamer said in his introductory press conference in December 2020.
He was previously an assistant head coach for offense at the University of Oklahoma and left in late 2020 to pursue the opportunity in Columbia. Soon after Muschamp’s departure in 2020, the torch was passed to Beamer, making him the 36th head football coach at USC. He holds the record for the most wins (22) in the first three seasons by a coach in school history. The four new faces in garnet and black are head football coach Shane Beamer, head men’s soccer coach Tony Annan, head swim and dive coach Jeff Poppell and head men's basketball coach Lamont Paris.įormer head football coach Will Muschamp was with the Gamecocks for five years, earning a 26-25 record. In the past four years, the South Carolina Athletics Department and USC students have seen many coaching changes. College sports are known for having a revolving door of coaches.
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