South Carolina's historic collapse should signal end of Shane Beamer's tenure

Second-half magic

Whatever head coach Mike Elko said to his team at halftime certainly worked, as his team came out firing in the second half.

Texas A&M scored 28 unanswered points in just under 20 minutes of game time to come all the way back and narrowly escape with a 31-30 win to improve to 10-0 for the first time since 1992.

According to the broadcast, teams trailing by 27-plus points in SEC play before 2004 were 0-286. That has now obviously changed as the Aggies pulled off one of the best comebacks wins in the history of the SEC.

Shane Beamer should be done

A loss as bad as South Carolina's was on Saturday should signal the end of Shane Beamer's tenure as head coach. There is a fine line between a hard-fought 31-30 loss and a 31-30 loss that saw your team allow 28 straight unanswered points.

Through 40 SEC games, Beamer is 16-24, giving him a lower winning percentage than former head coach Will Muschamp (17-22) who was fired after four-and-a-half seasons as the South Carolina head coach.

South Carolina's 1-7 SEC record this season was its worst under Beamer and its worst since the 2015 season, the same year legendary head coach Steve Spurrier resigned.

With a wild coaching cycle, Gamecocks athletic director Jeremiah Donati may decide to wait another year before making a coaching move, but fans would certainly understand if a move were made after Saturday's collapse.