{"id":393582,"date":"2025-09-24T15:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T15:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/393582\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T15:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T15:41:10","slug":"shane-beamers-plan-to-win-exposes-south-carolina-run-game-weaknesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/393582\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane Beamer\u2019s \u201cPlan to Win\u201d Exposes South Carolina Run Game Weaknesses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shane Beamer<\/a> carries a different, more self-aware persona than most college football coaches. He does do something that is common in the sport. For South Carolina to win games, they follow what he describes as a \u201cPlan to Win.\u201d This plan includes six facets that are seemingly universal.<\/p>\n

1. Run the ball
2. Stop the run
3. Win the turnover battle
4. Win the explosive play battle
5. Play smart football (penalties)
6. Dominate the fourth quarter<\/p>\n

According to Beamer, if they check three of those boxes, they will win the football game. Two of those boxes have gone unchecked all season long. <\/p>\n

South Carolina struggles to run the ball and stop the run. The Gamecocks rank last in rushing yards per game (80.25) and 14th in rushing yards allowed per game (152). Opponents are out-gaining them on the ground 608-321. Their leading rusher, Rahsul Faison<\/a>, has just 140 yards through four games. Last week at Missouri, the Tigers had 185 yards on the ground, compared to -9 by the Gamecocks. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s some serious issues when you rush for negative yards and you haven\u2019t been able to run the ball consistently enough,\u201d Beamer said on Tuesday<\/a>. \u201cI told our coaches that there\u2019s a 4-game body of work that says it\u2019s not good enough. We have to fix it. How do you do that? You continue to build on some of the things that we are doing well. It\u2019s maybe tweaking personnel in some areas, it\u2019s tweaking schemes in some areas, but it\u2019s not a \u2018go in here and blow things up.\u2019\u2026 It\u2019s nowhere near good enough and we have to be better.\u201d <\/p>\n

Beamer Knows McGowan Can Go<\/p>\n

Missouri\u2019s Ahmad Hardy<\/a> is a problem for everyone. The SEC\u2019s leading rusher is arguably the best in college football this season. Hardy nearly transferred to Kentucky this offseason. Instead, Kentucky brought in Dante Dowdell<\/a> and Seth McGowan<\/a>. The latter ranks third in the SEC in rushing yards per game (91.6) and second in rushing touchdowns (6). Beamer didn\u2019t have to run on the tape to know that McGowan will be a challenge for South Carolina. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis freaking running back they got coming in from Kentucky that will be here this weekend, you better wrap his butt up,\u201d said Beamer. \u201cHe and I were together at Oklahoma (in 2020). I know he runs with violence. We better get hats to the ball on this guy, or it\u2019ll be another long night.\u201d <\/p>\n

High-flying passing attacks have not dominated this series. You have to effectively run the football to grind out a close win. Even though the stats are ugly for South Carolina, Beamer believes the Gamecocks are close to checking another box in the Plan to Win. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact that we played like garbage in so many ways (against Missouri), but we were leading going into the fourth quarter, just imagine if we can get all of this other stuff fixed \u2014 everything is fixable \u2014 how good this football team can be.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shane Beamer carries a different, more self-aware persona than most college football coaches. He does do something that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,49,48,11975,45457],"class_list":{"0":"post-393582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-rahsul-faison-19-pottsgrove","12":"tag-seth-mcgowan-20-poteet"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115260036531830198","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}