(Of course, if Smart really wants to bring Fountain back, that wouldn’t preclude him from offering him more money.)Īs for the tight ends coaching title, there is another potential candidate on staff: Jay Johnson, the former Minnesota offensive coordinator who spent 2017 in an advisory role on Georgia’s staff. Scott Fountain, who spent the 2017 season in an advisory role on special teams, already has left to become the special teams coordinator at Mississippi State. The timing is a little less than beneficial for Georgia coach Kirby Smart, at least when it comes to filling the special teams coordinator opening. After a rough first season for Georgia’s special teams, Beamer’s units saw noticeable improvements in 2017.ĮSPN said Beamer would become involved in helping Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley in offensive game-planing. There was no immediate confirmation from UGA, and Beamer could not be immediately reached for comment.īeamer was Georgia’s special teams coordinator and tight ends coach the past two seasons, coming from Virginia Tech. Shane Beamer is leaving UGA for Oklahoma, someone familiar with the program said, confirming a report originally from ESPN. This story was originally published November 16, 2021, 10:06 AM.ATHENS ― Georgia edged out Oklahoma in the Rose Bowl, and now the Sooners are hiring away one of the Bulldogs’ assistant coaches. Would Shane Beamer be interested in coming home (and would VT want him)? - Jim Weber November 16, 2021īetter job.South Carolina or Virginia Tech?- Danny Kanell November 16, 2021ĭoes Virginia Tech dare make a call to favorite son Shane Beamer? Nowhere near the pressure of the SEC in Blacksburg.- William Brackin November 16, 2021 So does Coastal Carolina’s Jamey Chadwell. Thoughts on who will replace Justin Fuente at Virginia Tech? Re: Shane Beamer, Virginia Tech vacancy.- Brad Crawford November 16, 2021 ![]() Either go to VT full on, or denounce- flirtation can’t be good.- Scott Eisberg November 16, 2021īefore the rumors begin, I don't believe there's mutual interest from either side. I would think Shane Beamer has to open up his press conference today by saying “I have no interest in the Virginia Tech job” if he wants to truly remain in full good graces at USC. And while this season hasn’t been perfect and there might be a higher ceiling at Virginia Tech given its spot in the Atlantic Coast Conference, it would go against almost 20 years of the younger Beamer’s intent to carve his own path. ![]() ![]() Sure, he hadn’t been an offensive or defensive coordinator before, but he’d spent time at some of the nation’s biggest football factories (Georgia and Oklahoma) and was a part of Steve Spurrier’s staff ahead of the 2011 to 2013 glory days at South Carolina.īeamer has inspired what had been a dormant program. He’d worked for two decades to be afforded a chance to run his own program. “This is why these coaches came here is for nights like this and we’re going to have a bunch of more nights like this going forward.”ĭuring his introductory press conference last December, Beamer glowed with excitement. “This is why this has been my dream job and (there’s) nowhere else that I want to be,” Beamer said after South Carolina’s dominant win over Florida two weeks ago.
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