When asked about the importance of accountability, University of South Carolina Head Football Coach Shane Beamer says that it’s “so huge and we just need to be relentless about it. You can’t pick and choose. I think the minute you say something is important and the minute you put something on a wall that something is going to be important in our program…the minute you let that slide and you don’t make it important, it’s over. We’ve been relentless about that in holding guys accountable. It’s why it’s a core value of what this program is going to be about.” Now in his first head coaching role at the young age of 44, Coach Beamer started his football coaching career as a graduate assistant at Georgia Tech and Tennessee before landing position jobs in the Mississippi State, South Carolina, Virginia Tech, Georgia, and Oklahoma football programs. “I’ve been preparing to be a head coach since I got into coaching” according to Coach Beamer, who also noted that he’s been able to rely on solid relationships built over the years with other football coaches such as Kirby Smart, Lincoln Riley, and Frank Beamer as well as basketball coaches like Sherri Coale, Dawn Staley, and Rob Ehsan, among others.