Everything Shane Beamer said about Oklahoma loss during Sunday teleconference
One day after South Carolina’s 26-7 loss to Oklahoma, head coach Shane Beamer met with the media during his Sunday night teleconference.
Here’s everything he had to say.
Opening statement
“All right. Thanks for joining us. Looking back yesterday, guys who played well, we felt offensively, Jayden Sellers; defensively, Jalon Kilgore, Bryan Thomas, and Desmond Umeozulu, and then special teams-wise, Vicari Swain and Justin Okoronkwo. So proud of those guys in the way they played. Not nearly good enough. Too many self-inflicted mistakes for sure. We don’t see comfort around here and don’t make excuses, and we’re not about to start now, but certainly yesterday was the perfect storm of what didn’t need to happen. And you go into the game three starting offensive linemen out, and then you have three more that go out during the game and don’t finish, and then you lose Dylan Stewart in the first quarter, along with a couple of other defensive ends that got banged up and were able to return. That’s not the ideal scenario with where we were from a health standpoint. So no excuse. Next man up, and we got to continue to get those guys healthy and back to where they’re 100 percent.
“But not a good day to say the least. We all had a hand in it. I know everybody wants to talk about