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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 rushi

Year two of the Shane Beamer era is in the books, and it is safe to say the vibe in Columbia is far more positive than it was at the end of the 2020 football season. That mood is thanks in large part to the last two weeks of the season with a blowout win and a 31-30 win over rival Clemson. Both were wins over top 10-ranked teams, a program first.  Coming off a two-win season that saw former coach Will Muschamp fired during the season, Beamer has injected the near dead program with energy on the back of going 16-10 and a two bowl game appearances. The bowl game this year has not been played yet. There are still plenty of kinks to work out, but it is clear Beamer is building the program identity around special teams and defense in an attempt to replicate the reputation and success his father had at Virginia Tech.  LINK: Beamer's first season cause for optimism LINK: Dabo Swinney: "Education isn't important" He also has a major hire coming at offensive coordinator with M

Marcus Satterfield is out as offensive coordinator at South Carolina after two seasons. The stint is set to end with Satterfield set to take the OC job with Nebraska, according to Pete Thamel.  Sources: Nebraska is close to hiring South Carolina OC Marcus Satterfield as the school’s new offensive coordinator. Satterfield worked with Matt Rhule at Temple, Baylor and the Carolina Panthers. South Carolina’s offense scored 94 points in wins over Tennessee and Clemson. — Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) November 28, 2022 The Satterfield era of offense was mixed to put best. While there were high moments, the highest a 63-38 drubbing of Tennessee and a 31-30 showing the following week against Clemson, there were also bafflingly bad performances. The lowmark being a 38-6 loss to a bad Florida team and a 23-10 loss to an equally average Missouri squad. All this was in the last five games of 2022.  Carolina averaged 31.7 points per game this year, but if you eliminate the two outlier, 50-point per

College expansion is back in the news with the news Southern Cal and UCLA are set to join the Big 10 in 2024.  This movie puts every geography buff into a hissy fit with two teams from LA joining a conference comprised almost exclusively with teams from the Great Lakes and RustBelt region of the United States.  In the following days, the quartet of Arizona, Arizona State, Utah and Colorado were in preliminary talks to join the Big 12. Set aside the comedy of Colorado crawling back to the Big 12 after leaving a little over a decade ago, these moves could signal the Pac 12 going the way of the Southwest or Big East conferences.  If these moves all go through, the Pac 12 would be down to the Pac 6 with Oregon, Oregon State, Washington, Washington State, Cal and Stanford, and virtually dead in the water. But I postulate a different future than those 6 remaining schools joining a different conference. Let's get this first major domino out of the way - Hawaii is not an option. They inste

The University of South Carolina has its next men's basketball coach. Athletics director Ray Tanner named Lamont Paris as the 33rd coach in program history, and first African-American head coach. The hiring comes roughly two weeks after Tanner severed ties with Frank Martin, ending a decade-long tenure where Martin went 171-147, but made just one NCAA tournament appearance. He also failed to win a conference title. He was the second-winningest coach in program history, behind Frank McGuire. LINK: Martin out, who is next in Paris, 47, comes to Columbia after spending the last five years leading Chattanooga. The Mocs went 87-72, peaking with a 27-8 mark this year with an NCAA tournament berth. They also won the regular season and Southern Conference tournament championships. Before becoming a head coach, Paris spent 20 years as an assistant spanning Division III, II and I programs, most recently at Wisconsin from 2010-2017.  And the initial reaction to Paris by fans was...cool to put

The University of South Carolina is in the market for a new men's basketball coach with the news of Frank Martin's firing. The move ends a decade where Martin went 171-147, but made just one NCAA tournament appearance and did not win a conference title. He finishes as the third-winningest coach in program history. LINK: Martin out as USC coach Last year Martin kept his job due in large part to outside influence and the school having to pay a massive buyout of former football coach Will Muschamp. The Board of Trustees at the time had concerns paying two massive buyouts. You can read a more in-depth look at that below. LINK: Martin saga leaves USC with egg on its face Martin's contract was reworked to be much friendlier for the school, which was reported in April by WLTX. The big takeaway was if he was fired after April 1, 2022, the buyout wouldn't exceed $3 million. That is on top of his $3.3 million salary from the season. Now, athletic director Ray Tanner has another b