Shane Beamer speaks to his own job security

The South Carolina football team has fallen far short of expectations this season and as all have noticed throughout college football this season, that's a bad sign for head coaches. There are a dozen head football coaches that have already been fired for failing to meet the goals set.

Fifth-year head coach Shane Beamer has already fired two coaches on his offensive staff - coordinator Mike Shula and line coach Lonnie Teasley - and he's going to be on the hunt for a fourth coordinator on that side of the ball during his tenure in the offseason.

If he gets that chance.

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Beamer was asked on Sunday night in a teleconference with reporters following his team's 30-14 loss to Ole Miss how important it is to get some wins on the board this season before it could be his name on the chopping block.

Here's the entirety of what Beamer said in response:

"What do you think? I think it speaks for itself. This is a bottom line business and right now, we're not good enough. As I told our coaching staff today, it may seem like an eternity ago that we won six games in a row and beat Clemson and thought we were getting in the College Football Playoff, but it wasn't that long ago.

"We're not that far away from being back in that mix. What my focus is right now is putting together a game plan, one, to get better this week during the bye week and two, figuring out a way to go out and compete and perform better against A&M, with a bunch of kids that are playing their butts off right now and playing with great effort and are really hurting."

The Gamecocks (3-6, 1-6) were on the fringes of the College Football Playoff last season and projected to be in that same hunt this year prior to the start of the campaign. It hasn't worked out that way for Beamer and the 2025 edition of his team.

With one SEC game left on the schedule, at No. 3 Texas A&M on Nov. 15, the Gamecocks are staring at a one-win conference season. South Carolina won one SEC game in 2015 and went winless in the back-to-back seasons of 1998 and 1999. Every other year since being introduced into the league in 1992, the Gamecocks have garnered at least two wins.

Beamer said recently after the loss to Oklahoma that he feels extremely supported by athletics director Jeremiah Donati, and that same first-year AD affirmed those comments in an interview with The State newspaper just a couple of days later.

"We're behind him 100 percent, and that's just been my message to him," Donati told The State. "'Keep fighting the good fight every day.' He's a tremendous leader of young men. He's got a great message, great energy. And we need that."

Beamer and the Gamecocks have their second and final bye week of the season. The players have the day off on Sunday and will meet as a team on Monday.

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