Beamer apologizes for in-game Title IX ceremony incident
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It was stupid to do it at that point. He should have known. That comes with the job. His inexperience is showing.
Did he ask Dawn Staley if it was OK to be upset about it? Dawn runs the university now so I suppose Beamer had to ask her permission to make a statement about that matter.
He owes no apology. He didn’t know what was going on. All he knew was the game being interrupted ( for at least a couple of minutes) and during a critical play. Whoever ran the title nine ceremony is the one who should apologize. Never should have happened
We look stupid on TV. Kirby was bitching too but that didn't get any traction. Shows the state of our football program under Tanner. Embarrassing.
To me it seems like there is to much going on during a football game to allow people to conduct an award ceremony during a timeout in the first place
With 100+ people at that. If it was acknowledging 3 or 4 students, that's one thing. But trying to get 100+ onto and off the field in that short time frame was not a good idea.
It is kind of humorous, though, that Title IX acknowledgement was squeezed into a timeout of a men's game.
Somebody should have let Beamer know, seems like another RT failure, Beamer has enough to worry about without having to worry about Title IX ceremonies during a timeout. Ridiculous to even be having these during a football game, sounds like another Staley/RT screwup.
Either way, Beamer shouldn't have to apologize.
No way. He's not an event planner. His time is taken up with preparing for the game. Coaches don't have anything to do with all the acknowledgements and things that go on during games. Nor do they pay attention to them. The last thing I want our head football coach doing is wasting time thinking about that meaningless stuff.
Disagree. Head Coaches know or should know what’s going on in the stadium during games - or as Kirby said, he had control; he could have prevented it. Could you imagine Saban (or Kirby) agreeing to that at any point other than halftime or otherwise not having a system in place where the head guy is ignorant? No way!
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I agree that Tanner is a colossal screw-up and it’s likely Coach Woke pushed him for recognition during a big game where max ppl would be present, but do you think she’d tolerate a delay in one of her games at a critical moment to recognize men? She’d be screaming misogyny or some other nonsense.
It was definitely the shear number of people that caused the problem.
I don't think the incident reflects poorly on Beamer, but on the athletic department as a whole. The whole thing looked like amatuer hour on national tv. This doesn't happen at Bama or UGA or any other well-run athletic department. It was really embarrassing.
You may disagree, but it doesn’t make it so. I can tell you with absolute certainty that coaches don’t get involved and all that kind of nonsense… Honoring the 1984 women’s lacrosse conference championship team and all that junk that goes on during games. Just because this was horribly botched by those who were in charge of it has nothing to do with Beamer.
No, Tanner our brilliant AD should have informed him. Just another bad call by Tanner
Dumb idea to try to get 275 people on and off the field in between quarters.
Screwed up timing by who ever makes those decisions…..should have been @ halftime with extra flexibility.
I guess, like the rest of us, they knew if they waited until halftime, most the Carolina fans would be out of the stadium and heading home by then.
I really don't think he needs to apologize for yelling "Get off the field." Maybe if a bunch more folks had been yelling the same thing, they would have been quicker about it. It was just poor planning all the way around. They should have quickly moved the folks to the sidelines in the vicinity of the endzone and then they could exit at a more deliberate pace without being on the field of play.
Here's what Beamer should have said when asked about this: "Oh, I didn't know what that was all about down there in the end zone." That's it. No apology.
I don't know why they even do those dumb things anyway. Probably 500 people in the stands even pay attention. The Title IX sports should be having a ceremony to thank football for footing the bill for their sports.
I don't know why they even do those dumb things anyway. Probably 500 people in the stands even pay attention. The Title IX sports should be having a ceremony to thank football for footing the bill for their sports.
He's got Dawn's support now, so all is well.
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Dawn Staley expresses support for Shane Beamer after South Carolina football coach apologizes
South Carolina basketball coach Dawn Staley expresses support for football coach Shane Beamer after backlash for yelling at female athletes.
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There were good intentions to honor true female athletes. But, yes, it was bungled horribly. Beamer had nothing to do with it and was probably hollering at the organizers more than the student athletes. Why not just do it at halftime?
If you watched the press conference, he said he didn't have anything to do with it; it was the administration. He does not have the power to stop something like that if the Athletic Department has set it up. He's a football coach, not an athletic director.
Right. It's been a while since I've been to a college football game, but they're always honoring or recognizing someone or some team or some student for something at various points in the game. It's silly to think the football coach has anything to do with that or even knows about it. It's irrelevant for him.
I don’t care what he said. There’s no way I can imagine Saban or any other big time coach not being aware that something like that would happen to the point where it could affect play. It’s too convenient for him to plead ignorance. The highly successful coaches are control freaks.
Dear dumbarse game managers….. A commercial break is not the freaking time to try and honor every single female athlete at South Carolina. Did anyone happen to think there’s a whole damn bunch of them. You knew it wasn’t going to be a quick thing. It’s not like they brought out the women’s volleyball team to honor.