“I’ve got a lot of respect for Coach Smart,” said Beamer, noting the two seasons he spent in Athens may have been the most impactful of his coaching career. It's something we work hard on.'īeamer’s relationship with Smart and his two seasons in Athens were discussed at length during Tuesday’s press conference. “So it wasn't about whether he was onside or not - the movement pre-snap should've negated the play. But in all reality it should've come back anyway because they had people moving before the snap,” Smart said. 'I mean, I was over it after it happened because I just assumed that, you know, they made the call that they saw and they felt confident about. Smart was asked about the play and Beamer’s comment during his post-practice media session Tuesday.

I don’t want to say that cost us the national championship, but that was a significant play in the game.” “Unfortunately, the officiating crew–not an SEC crew–absolutely blew the call. We did, came completely clean, and blocked the punt, just like we had designed it to do,” Beamer said. “We knew that if Alabama was in that protection scheme, we were going to get a free rusher. “Kirby had come up with a plan that when Alabama punts, 'We're confident they're going to do this and when they do this, we're going to do that.'' “You ask anybody in Athens what ‘Tyler Simmons was onside’ means, they know because of the national championship game we had against Alabama,” Beamer recalled. “Y’all are going to take me down a nightmare,” Beamer joked with reporters after the subject came up during his Tuesday press conference to preview Saturday’s game against the top-ranked Bulldogs (3:30 p.m., CBS).īeamer, who served for two seasons as Georgia’s tight ends and special teams coach under Kirby Smart, admits he still feels a certain amount of pain whenever he thinks back to what most believe was a missed call that perhaps cost the Bulldogs the 2017 national championship. Georgia fans apparently aren’t the only ones who cringe when somebody mentions 'Tyler Simmons was onside.'Īlmost six years later, apparently, South Carolina head coach Shane Beamer has flashbacks, too. X2Nvb2tpZXNfd2luPXgnIHN0eWxlPSdkaXNwbGF5Om5vbmU7dmlzaWJpbGl0ĮTpoaWRkZW4nIHdpZHRoPScwJz48L2lmcmFtZT4KPC9ub3NjcmlwdD4KCgo= VE0tTUY2UFhYQycpOwo8元NjcmlwdD4KPG5vc2NyaXB0Pgo8aWZyYW1lIGhlĪWdodD0nMCcgc3JjPSdodHRwczov元d3dy5nb29nbGV0YWdtYW5hZ2VyLmNvīS9ucy5odG1sP2lkPUdUTS1NRjZQWFhDJmFtcDtndG1fYXV0aD1LaEg2aGVDĬG9XSlVIbnFWemRFYTd3JmFtcDtndG1fcHJldmlldz1lbnYtMSZhbXA7Z3Rt ICAgfSkod2luZG93LGRvY3VtZW50LCdzY3JpcHQnLCdkYXRhTGF5ZXInLCdH Zi5wYXJlbnROb2RlLmluc2VydEJlZm9yZShqLGYpOwogICAgICAgIHdpbmRvĭy5fZGlkQXN5bmNJbmplY3RHb29nbGVUYWdNYW5hZ2VyID0gdHJ1ZTsKICAg

JyZndG1fcHJldmlldz0nKydlbnYtMScrJyZndG1fY29va2llc193aW49eCc7 Z3RtX2F1dGg9JysnS2hINmhlQ3BvV0pVSG5xVnpkRWE3dycrCiAgICAgICAg

PHNjcmlwdD4KICAoZnVuY3Rpb24odyxkLHMsbCxpKXsKICAgICAgICBpZiAoĭ2luZG93Ll9kaWRBc3luY0luamVjdEdvb2dsZVRhZ01hbmFnZXIpIHJldHVyījsKICAgICAgICB3W2xdPXdbbF18fFtdO3dbbF0ucHVzaCh7J2d0bS5zdGFyĭCc6CiAgICAgICAgbmV3IERhdGUoKS5nZXRUaW1lKCksZXZlbnQ6J2d0bS5qĬyd9KTt2YXIgZj1kLmdldEVsZW1lbnRzQnlUYWdOYW1lKHMpWzBdLAogICAg

Kirby smart shane beamer