Shane Beamer did not dodge the question. After a national report said the heat was rising on his job at South Carolina, the Gamecocks coach said Sunday night that he still feels secure in Columbia.
The timing was not accidental. South Carolina is 2-2 after a 49-18 loss Saturday at No. 8 Alabama, an 0-2 start in SEC play that followed a 4-8 season in 2025.
On3’s Pete Nakos wrote that “pressure is mounting” on Beamer under a new athletic director, Jeremiah Donati, who did not hire him, and that a home loss next Saturday to Kentucky “could be too much for Beamer to rebound from.”…