The following was originally published on Oct. 28, 2024.
GamecockCentral.com’s Chris Clark recently sat down with former South Carolina athletics director Eric Hyman for a wide-ranging interview.
Here is a transcript of the hour-long-plus conversation. It has been edited for brevity and clarity.
GC: You recently returned to South Carolina. You were in town for the Ole Miss game. How was that? What did you think of the game, first of all?
HYMAN: Well, you know, I’m a big advocate of Shane Beamer. I met him when he was two years old with his dad, Frank Beamer.
In 2008, I was on the going-to-watch practice, and Gene Warr, who at the time, he may have been the deputy chair, at South Carolina. And so he asked me, he said, who would you choose if you were making the choice to replace Steve Spurrier? And I said, Shane Beamer.
Now, this is 2008. He said ‘why?’
Then I explained to him what I thought of him. Whether that had any traction, I don’t know. I think he had forwarded, when Will Muschamp was let go, forwarded Shane’s name to the powers to be.