South Carolina Gamecocks head coach Shane Beamer added to his catalog of memorable press conference moments on Saturday after his team’s 28-7 win against the Vanderbilt Commodores in Nashville.
Beamer, who has his team at 6-3 thanks to the win over the Commodores, took Vanderbilt to task for not allowing live mascots at FirstBank Stadium.
The fourth-year South Carolina head coach criticized Vanderbilt for that policy during a humorous “rant”.
Beamer also threw some shade at the AP Top 25 voters during his mini-rant.
“The people that do the rankings don’t think we are worth a crap and that’s fine,” said Beamer. “Keep crapping on us, that’s the way we like it as well. Don’t rank us this week. We are good where we are. We just like to lay low and work really, really hard and come out and have fun on Saturdays as well.
“I promised Sir Big Spur I would do this. Disappointed that Sir Big Spur is not here. I think it’s ridiculous that this is the only place apparently in the SEC that does not allow live mascots in the stadium. That is what makes this league special is the fact that LSU can have a freaking tiger at their stadium tonight, but we can’t bring Sir Big Spur. Sir Big Spur came over and gave us a sendoff before we left the facility yesterday. I told him I would say hello to Sir Big Spur in the press conference. Come on Vandy, do better.”