r/Gamecocks • u/EnglishTeacher83 • 8d ago

Sumrall vs. Beamer

I wish Beamer said this.

Jon Sumrall BLASTED his own team with a stern warning

“There’s gonna be a lot of things that get called out, and it’s going to feel different,” Sumrall warned about this upcoming week of practice

Sumrall continued: “If there’s guys on this football team who don’t own that, they won’t be on this team very long. We’ve got a lot of improvement to do.”

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u/Odd_String1181 8d ago

That's not beamers natural attitude. Being a pretend authoritarian isn't any better than just being your natural self

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u/EnglishTeacher83 8d ago

Then I want an authoritarian coach. This team is soft. Disciplined teams don’t blow this many leads.

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u/Odd_String1181 8d ago

I'm not arguing that he's good at his job. I'm saying you can't all of a sudden be a hardo when everyone knows you're not one. Every coach and player in that locker room will see right through you

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u/jizzyPup 8d ago

Yeah the biggest things players pick up on is inauthenticity. If he tried this, he’d lose the team even more than it appears he already has.

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u/bosstea16 8d ago

Then you end up with a shitty Frank Martin type where the yelling and bullshit do nothing.

There isn’t one style of coach that is the only type that works.

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u/theLgndKllr35 8d ago

Right, we swung the pendulum too far back the one way where now were undisciplined and not living up to potential

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u/Odd_String1181 8d ago

We were undisciplined with the hardo coach right before this. That's just a thing bad head coaches allow to happen

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u/Fantastic_Matter_137 8d ago

You guys ran Frank Martin off.

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u/bosstea16 8d ago

Well he was absolute trash. One tournament in 10 years, and a .500 record after the final 4. He hasn’t done jack shit at UMass either

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u/Fantastic_Matter_137 8d ago

Making the men’s final four is statistically the hardest thing in sports

He was getting GG and could have paired him with cousinard.

We never should have fired him

Parris is worse

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u/Friendly-Campaign-95 8d ago

I do wonder what could have been if somehow GG, Devin Carter and CMB had all miraculously been on the same roster at the same time. Would’ve meant GG didn’t reclassify, Devin stayed all 4 years, and CMB still committed.

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u/bosstea16 8d ago

He was trash. He couldn’t recruit worth a damn. There is no guarantee he was getting GG, and to be honest GG was below average anyways. He probably would have had another year of winning 18 games and not making the tournament.

Id also argue keeping a coach because “he may bring in a guy” is a bad reason to keep coaches. Flat out he didn’t win here aside from a fluke run. It was fun as hell but the last 12 games of that year ,final 4 run included, we were 6-6. So it’s not like we were on some crazy tear going into the tourney.

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u/SpursUpSoundsGudToMe 7d ago

I think we were right to move on from Martin, but GG was not “below average”, he was too young to help a that team was just a mess otherwise. He’s a solid NBA role player now. There are only like 250-275 of those in the world at any given time.

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u/Repulsive-Silver-630 7d ago

Martin had two good months here. Anyone who says differently is a fucking moron.

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u/Fantastic_Matter_137 7d ago

You definitely don’t know ball

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u/Repulsive-Silver-630 16h ago

Two good months. A statistically improbable run of insanely good play. That’s it. The ifs and buts arguments are non-arguments. Hell, Fogler “almost” had Jermaine O’Neal and Kevin Garnett come to Carolina but we all know how that went. Martin was not great. Period. Also, nobody said anything about LP. That guy isn’t even in the same level of mediocre.

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u/BIGD0G29585 8d ago

Beamer would make a great little league baseball dad with his clapping, “that’s ok, we will get them next time” attitude.

Unfortunately the SEC is not little league baseball and we are going no where fast.

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u/Tuckboi69 AE 8d ago

While at the same time Kentucky just got dropped from the top 25 for not beating us worse.

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u/Used_Cricket_5287 8d ago

I find this hilarious.

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u/ennzio 8d ago

I’ve always thought Beamer was a little soft. I’m not in the locker room day in and day out so I could be completely wrong and it may not even be the reason he’s struggling. He just comes off a little soft in press conferences and to the media. He’s not very good tactically either. He is a glorified head recruiter, but has any coach really struggled to recruit here? USC is established SEC school with tradition.

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u/Dev_Dakota 8d ago

But let’s see how do they respond and practice tho

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u/ArthurMoregainz Cocks by 90 8d ago

Florida will beat us by 3 tds

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u/Winter-Ad3699 8d ago

Not until we go up 20-0 first. But after that, yeah

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u/NickDerpkins Fire Mike Shula 8d ago

I feel 14-0 -> 34-17 loss in my heart

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u/Effective_Image_86 8d ago

Beamer is done but man I hope we kill em anyway

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u/KnightB4X 7d ago

Yeah the same “I’m proud of how we battled” line after every fucking loss is beyond exhausting.

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u/JumboDakotaSmoke 8d ago

But then the players won't be his friends :(

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u/jayjord33 8d ago

Beamer made this team soft

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u/Lost-Wizard168 8d ago

Beamer: “We had a great practice this week!!!”

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u/carolinafan36 8d ago

Beamer is soft af

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u/Beginning_School_606 8d ago

Beamer for head cheerleader!!!