Growing up in western Kentucky during the early 1980s, South Carolina Gamecocks football coach Shane Beamer has a deep appreciation for just how far Mark Stoops has taken the Kentucky Wildcats’ football program during his nine seasons in Lexington.
The son of legendary college football coach Frank Beamer and new South Carolina coach will come face-to-face with Stoops, also a coach’s son, when the Gamecocks host Kentucky at 7:00 pm ET Saturday night on ESPN2.
Stoops’ dad, Ron, was a respected defensive coordinator for many years at Cardinal Mooney High School in Youngstown (OH), while Frank was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2018 after 29 seasons at Virginia Tech.