South Carolina looking to avoid early deficit in hostile Tiger Stadium
During the 2024 season, South Carolina found itself with an early 17-0 lead over the LSU Tigers at home. However, the lead wasn’t enough to stop the Tigers from coming back and winning a controversial game.
As South Carolina heads to Tiger Stadium on Saturday, the Gamecocks are hoping to avoid the same kind of hole LSU fell into a season ago.
“You don’t want to dig yourself out of a hole. Now, (LSU) did it last year. When they came in here, they dug themselves out of, you know, 17-0, I think,” head coach Shane Beamer said Tuesday. “So they did it. We know it’s not going to be easy. It’s going to be a 60-minute game on Saturday night, and they’re going to make plays.”
To avoid falling behind, the Gamecocks must first overcome a sold-out Tiger Stadium. Beamer always makes sure they’re simulating crowd noise during a road-game week, but with LSU’s Death Valley, it’s hard to do that.
“You can’t simulate 100,000 probably heavily intoxicated Louisianans down there, which is going to be awesome. I mean, you want to coach in those environments,” Beamer said. “But I would say the same thing that Coach (Brian) Kelly said about coming into Williams-Brice Stadium last year … You can control the crowd with how you play.”
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South Carolina has found itself falling behind early in all three of its opening Southeastern Conference games. In all three games, the Gamecocks have allowed their opponent to take 7-0 leads.
Beamer said the key to avoiding situations like that compound, should it happen again Saturday, is to continue to get better as the game continues.
“There’s going to be momentum shifts and adversity that we face,” Beamer said. ” … But certainly, when you go on the road, and when you’re going into a hostile environment like we are on Saturday night, you want to get off to a good start and not allow that crowd to get even more into it.”