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Beamer was born in Mount Airy, North Carolina, [5] and grew up on a farm in Fancy Gap, Virginia. Beamer is a direct descendant of the notorious Allen clan of Carroll County, Virginia. In 1912, during a court trial, his great-uncle, Floyd Allen, fired rounds in a spasm of violence. The courtroom shooting left five people dead, including the ...
Five head coaches have led the Hokies in postseason bowl games: Jimmy Kitts, Jerry Claiborne, Bill Dooley, Frank Beamer and Justin Fuente. Two coaches have won conference championships: Jerry Claiborne, in the Southern Conference in 1963 and Frank Beamer with seven, three in the Big East Conference and four in the ACC.
His father, Frank Beamer — College Football Hall of Fame member and longtime Virginia Tech coach — made the concept “Beamer Ball” famous. Shane has brought the strategy to South Carolina ...
Shane Beamer (born March 31, 1977) is an American college football coach who is currently the head football coach at the University of South Carolina. Beamer has the second most top-ten wins in program history, [ 2 ] and he was named the SEC Coach of the Year in 2024. [ 3 ]
Former head coach Frank Beamer (1987–2015) led Virginia Tech to 23 consecutive bowl games starting in 1993 and the Independence Bowl, posting a record of 11–12. Beamer earned national coach of the year honors several times from various organizations and had the most wins of any active Division I college football coach at the time of his ...
Shane Beamer is now officially the head coach of the South Carolina Gamecocks. It’s the first head coaching job for the former Virginia Tech and Oklahoma assistant, and it’s made his father ...
There was that little Shane Beamer/Mark Stoops dust-up a couple of years ago. You remember. At the 2022 SEC Media Days, South Carolina released a hype video showing Beamer wearing sunglasses and ...
The team's head coach was Frank Beamer. Tech finished the season with an 11-3 record and won its second ACC football championship in its first four years in the league. The team jumped to as high as number 5 in the BCS football rankings and lost 24-21 in the 2008 Orange Bowl.