Shane Beamer wants his team to look well-coached, play physical during South Carolina's spring game

Moments before South Carolina kicked off its spring game and showed off the early iteration of its 2023 football team, head coach Shane Beamer spoke about his expectations for the evening. All told, there’s not a whole lot that needs to happen for him to be happy.

Namely, if his team competes and plays with physicality without making mental errors, he can go home happy. Staying healthy, of course, remains a goal — especially so in an intra-squad scrimmage.

“Clean football, coming out of it healthy like every coach says. But, clean, look like a well-coached team. Seeing — I just told them in the locker room — that we look like what our standard is: Playing physical, competing our butts off, that’s what I want to see,” Beamer said to SEC Network’s Roman Harper.

And Beamer, who doesn’t shy away from sharing how he feels, offered that he was really just excited to see his team play some football.

“I’m just excited to watch our guys compete. That’s one thing about this team, is they compete. We’ve got some really good young players and competitive juices are flowing. Should be a lot of fun,” Beamer said.

A few days prior to the South Carolina spring game, Beamer assessed where the offense stood.

“We have thrown a lot at them so to speak. A lot of it is not, a lot of the passing game concepts are things they know from last year. If you’re new here — if you are Trey Knox or Josh Simon or Eddie Lewis — you don’t know it. It is new for you,” the South Carolina head coach said. “I think just the multiplicities, formations and motions and things like that, we have thrown a lot at them.

“Offensively, our players need to do a great job to learn conceptually. … You can therefore do more things, be dependable and be used in different ways. We’ve thrown a lot at them, but it’s been good teaching, good learning and I like where we are now.”

Knox and Lewis, two wide receivers and Simon a tight end, are three of the biggest offensive wins for the Gamecocks during the early transfer portal window. Simon will be tasked with playing a larger role for the Gamecocks this season after tight ends Jaheim Bell and Austin Stogner transferred out of the program. Knox and Lewis should fit in nicely in Beamer’s schemes, whether that be on offense or special teams.