HOUR | Gamecocks down A&M, Panthers lose with controversy, & Rivers to Raleigh? |NWIRE 2 WIRE 11 9 26 HOUR 1

Cole Bryson (0:00)

You call them Lenoris Diesel? They call him La Heisman. He showed out again this weekend, and even in one play, in one instant, on a bomb ankle, Lenoris Sellers, my goodness. Can you say Heisman Trophy winner? I know, I know, I know what you're gonna say. Well, there are other guys that are better, other guys that are impacting the game more, but my goodness gracious. What a win for South Carolina. What a performance. Just individual performance, making plays Diesel when plays had to be made for South Carolina on Saturday. Welcome into Wire2Wire. He's Diesel, I'm Cole Bryson. On an overreaction Monday, and boy, do we have one or two things to overreact to about today, and I mean one or two or 10 things to overreact to. But Diesel, you know, Lenora Sellers, I think he has been called a lot of things, a lot of adjectives, red hot, obviously how he's playing right now. But I believe on Saturday, we, you and I, and the rest of South Carolina can add a new adjective for Lenora Sellers. And I think it's warrior.

I think that is the new adjective from what I saw on Saturday, Diesel. What a true warrior-like performance from QB1.

Diesel (1:24)

Gutsy. Yeah, you're right. I mean, what a performance from him. That run, what did he break off? A 40-something odd yard run. And he comes up limping at the end of it. It's one of those moments where the adrenaline takes over and you simply don't feel it while you're running down the field, I guess.

I hope he wasn't wincing in pain every time he pounded that ankle onto the field. But just a monster run. They didn't expect him to be able to do that. They certainly didn't. They thought they could keep Lenoris in the pocket and defend that way.

Not the case, because he is amazing.

Cole Bryson (2:02)

No, and you know what, man? I mean, I don't know if he did feel at the entire run that you're talking about. Certainly at the end of the run, you said it, you saw the pain that he was in, right?

The limp, the bum ankle there, but my goodness, maybe he did. I just think, look, when you look at this big picture, and I want to ask the question when it comes to South Carolina's realistic chances, Diesel at a college football playoff. The Gamecocks have won four straight, including three big threes over teams that were ranked when the Gamecocks played them. Okay, they were ranked when South Carolina played them. And I think that's what matters. Shane Beamer's team has gone from and 3 in the SEC to 6 and 3 overall, 4 and 3 in the SEC, 21 in the college football playoff rankings last week. And I just think when you look at the coaching job that Shane Beamer's done, that's where I want to start. And I think I will admit I was the first one that thought, oh boy, Shane Beamer's job is in jeopardy when they were and 3 in SEC played Diesel and had lost, what, eight straight conference games. I think you have to look at this as a whole now and think, man, what a job Shane Beamer's done. How? Well, I think there are many different answers to answer how, but I think, guess what?

When he loses, we say it starts at the top. When he wins, I think we have to give him the same amount of credit.

Diesel (3:24)

Sure.

Cole Bryson (3:24)

I think the job that he's done this year, starting with Beamer and his staff, it's incredible. And I will be the first one to say I'm eating crow because I thought there was a good chance he got fired Diesel during the bio week.

Diesel (3:35)

Yeah, I don't understand why the slow starts keep happening. Now, that's certainly on Shane and his staff to figure out. Maybe it's the tremendous changeover they've had at offensive coordinator every single year. Maybe Shane is not getting this team really ready to go for the first couple weeks of SEC play. Maybe he's sort of deficient in figuring out what they need to fix or what they have to get ready for before SEC play.

That's clearly the deficiency. How do we figure out how to make our team a complete football team, a four-quarter football team by the time SEC play starts? Maybe a part of that, Cole, and we've talked about this many times, is the week scheduling out of conference before you get to SEC play. I understand that you want to play games where you're going to get wins because goal eligibility is enormous. You got to get to six wins. That's goal number one.