Shane Beamer hires Dowell Loggains as next Gamecock offensive coordinator.

Shane Beamer has his next offensive coordinator. 

The South Carolina head football coach will enter his third year with Dowell Loggains running the offensive side of the ball.

Loggains, 42, takes over for Marcus Satterfield, who took the offensive coordinator job at Nebraska. Loggains spent the last year as tight end coach at Arkansas.

The university's Board of Trustees approved Loggains contract Tuesday during its monthly meeting. It is a three-year deal for $1 million per year, according to David Cloninger.

Dowell Loggains has been approved as South Carolina's offensive coordinator. He has a three-year deal (through 2025) at $1 million per year.

— David Cloninger (@DCPandC) December 13, 2022

Loggains contract at Arkansas was a two-year deal, and topped at $400,000 this year.

Under Satterfield in 2022, South Carolina averaged 31.7 points per game, ranking 45th in the country. The Gamecocks averaged 257.8 passing yards (T-42nd with South Alabama) but was one of the worst rushing offenses, averaging 123 yards per game (T-100th). 

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The move to Loggains won't wow the fanbase. If Twitter is an accurate gauge, this is a borderline revolting move. But why?

First the positives. Loggains as experience as an OC and QB coach, something Beamer said he was looking for in the hire. He runs a more pro-style system, another aspect Beamer is attached to. 

The problems though come in the details. 

While Loggains has NFL coordinator experience, the results aren't confidence building. 

Through four single-season stints with the Titans, Bears, Dolphins and Jets, Loggains offenses always finished in the bottom third of the league in scoring, and all four years where marked with losing records.

In fairness to him, the NFL is a QB driven league, and if you don't have a top flight QB, you likely aren't winning much. 

Who were the QBs Loggains had at his disposal?

Jake Locker and Matt Hasselbeck (Tennessee); Matt Barkley, Jay Cutler and Brian Hoyer (Chicago); Ryan Tannehill and Brock Osweiler (Miami); and Sam Darnold, Luke Falk and Trevor Siemian (New York).

Safe to say none of those guys are heading to Canton and sizing they faded gold jackets. 

Also, those four teams, especially the Jets, haven't been good in a good while. Talent makes or breaks NFL coaches more than anything, and coaches get very little say in how their rosters are filled out.

In short, failure in the NFL isn't a direct correlation to failing in college, see Steve Spurrier and Nick Saban (and to be clear, I'm not comparing Loggains to Spurrier or Saban in acumen).

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But for all the names that were out there, hiring Loggains feels like a reach Beamer.

I understand you want an OC in before the early signing period so he can get on the road recruiting and you can sell something tangible to offensive players. I'd argue with how the transfer portal is now, that shouldn't be as high a necessity anymore. 

Loggains may be the answer and he may take the offense to the next level it needs for the Beamer era to continue advancing upward. Looking ahead, fans should hope it doesn't take players two years to learn his system like it reportedly did with Satterfield.

But fans would feel better if this was an OC with a proven track record of success, rather than just a guy who coached in the NFL, but was on teams that went a combined 23-41.

In short, Beamer has some selling to do and Loggains has some proving to do. 

Nothing can sell a coach more than a good product on the field and in the case of Loggains, points on the scoreboard.