Marcus Lattimore: Shane Beamer's recruiting is sending a message in South Carolina
Shane Beamer has the blueprint to what success looks at South Carolina.
It’s a line that’s been said at nauseam since the day he was hire as head coach of the Gamecocks. But it’s the truth.
On the newest episode of the podcast series “BLEAV in South Carolina” with me, Marcus Lattimore, and Nick Klos on the BLEAV Network, Lattimore shared how Beamer’s recruiting, specifically in-state recruiting, is sending a loud and needed message.
“When you go over to Camden and you secure a commitment from a top player from (there), you keep Camden ‘Gamecock,'” said Lattimore about South Carolina landing a commitment from four-star defensive lineman Xzavier McLeod last week. “That’s just what you have to do. Camden has always been Gamecock and it will always be. Coach Beamer understands that. He was born in Charleston. You have to keep that city on lock. That’s a Gamecock city.
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“Now, you go to Spartanburg, SC and you go get Markee Anderson from Dorman now you have people’s attention. Once you’re on (I-)26 and you pass Greenwood. You pass Laurens you pass Spartanburg, now you’re going into Clemson country. That’s just what it is. So when a Markee Anderson commits to South Carolina it sends shockwaves through the Upstate, really. Clemson is paying attention because just historically and geographically that’s always been their area.”
Currently ranked 18th in On3’s consensus recruiting rankings for the class of 2023, USC has landed commitments from three of the top four prospects from the state of South Carolina.
“(Beamer) is building it the right way. He understands what it takes to win at South Carolina. Our state is just too small to recruit just from South Carolina. So you have to go to the neighboring states and get those guys from Florida and Georgia. But when you start to put up a fence around these key (South Carolina) cities where Gamecocks have always come through, you’re creating that effect that happened ten to twelve years ago.”
