Tennessee Vols fans will strongly disagree with recent comments from Shane Beamer
Tennessee Vols fans will almost certainly disagree with some comments that South Carolina head coach Shane Beamer made after the Gamecocks' 17-14 win against the Kentucky Wildcats this past weekend. Beamer praised the atmosphere at Williams-Brice Stadium after the game, telling reporters that it was louder than any road atmosphere he's been in since he […]
Tennessee Vols fans will almost certainly disagree with some comments that South Carolina head coach Shane Beamer made after the Gamecocks' 17-14 win against the Kentucky Wildcats this past weekend.
Beamer praised the atmosphere at Williams-Brice Stadium after the game, telling reporters that it was louder than any road atmosphere he's been in since he took over as the Gamecocks' head coach in late 2020.
"There was a time there in the first quarter, I remember thinking to myself 'this is the loudest I've heard this stadium since I've been the head football coach here' and it was hard to hear on the headphones tonight," said Beamer after South Carolina's win on Saturday night. "Normally you're the home team and you can hear well…it was harder to hear on our headphones tonight as coaches because of the crowd noise….but louder than any venue I've been [in] on the road, since I've been the head coach. We haven't had that issue, hearing on the headphones, but we did tonight."
Interestingly, right after Beamer praised the crowd for loud they were, he took the student section to task for leaving the game early.
"Plenty of people will nitpick me for this game, and rightfully so, if I can nitpick a little bit — Cockpit (SC's student section) we love you, but if you're going to come please stay for the whole game," said Beamer. "To the cockpit, like, I love you guys and that endzone was amazing. But we don't need empty seats in a four quarter dogfight like that in our student section."
Williams-Brice definitely has a great atmosphere. In fact, it's one of the better college football atmospheres in the nation. But it's not louder than Neyland Stadium, which seats over 20,000 more fans. It's not louder than the Swamp, either. Or Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge.
And there are plenty of folks with a lot of experience that would disagree with Beamer's comments about Williams-Brice being louder than any stadium he's played in on the road.
"When that guy (John Chavis) was calling defenses and he had a guy named Phillip Fulmer wearing the headset, I could say it is the loudest stadium I have ever been in….when that one is cooking, it is as loud as there is," said former Florida/Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer last month, for example.
Even a Georgia offensive lineman said earlier this year that it was the loudest stadium in the SEC
Sorry Shane, we know you have to pander to South Carolina fans, but this one is just too much of a stretch.
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