Spurrier couldn't recruit due to his toxic personality. He had one top-10 recruiting class at SC (6th, in his third year, bracketed between #32 class in year 2 and #34 class in year 4) and averaged about 20th in his tenure there. I saw Bob Stoops in the airport in Orlando when he was DC for Spurrier at UF. He said they would have a recruit locked up and then Spurrier would visit the kid and then they would then have to try to convince the kid not to de-commit. Beamer is a better recruiter than Spurrier, but not near the coach. SC can only hope he will somehow improve.
The prevailing thought going into the season from SC fans I know was that Beamer is "Dabo-light". Beamer's issue is sustaining. He's been recruiting well enough but their overachieving from LY isn't there, so the potential for things to start coming off the rails is there, esp moving into next year where they'll probably need to go into the portal again for a QB b/c don't think they have a high caliber QB on roster? QB is the equalizer in CFB. Ratler saved their season last year when they finally decided to cut him loose starting with Vols game. If we didn't have Hooker the past two years, and Milton was our QB, JH may have had some of the same issues as Beamer at this point.
