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Shane Beamer will return to Norman to finish out the regular season and the Big 12 Championship Game, but he won't be involved in recruiting any future Oklahoma players.

South Carolina gets that side of Beamer'south talents over the next few weeks.

Beamer on Sunday took over the Southward Carolina task vacated when Will Muschamp was fired. He missed last week'southward game against Baylor, just OU coach Lincoln Riley said Mon during the Big 12 coaches teleconference that Beamer will be dorsum afterwards in the 24-hour interval on Monday.

"Shane will be back here this afternoon," Riley said. "He'll be with us at least through the next couple of games, and then one time we play the next two games, we'll effigy out the rest from in that location."

National Signing Day is Dec. xvi, a week from Wednesday, and then Riley said it wouldn't brand sense for Beamer to stay involved with any OU prospects.

"No, he'll do everything without current squad, merely he won't be involved in recruiting any hereafter players right now," Riley said. "He'll use that time to practice some work, obviously, for South Carolina and recruiting on that front. He'll be a busy guy the next couple weeks."

Beamer, 43, was OU'southward assistant head autobus and coached the tight ends and H-backs in his three years (2018-2020) at OU. He also had a big hand in developing OU'southward special teams, though Riley has eschewed assigning a coordinator title.

Riley said he won't need to "supplant" Beamer as a recruiter considering the current state of affairs doesn't need it.

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"With the fact that we can't travel anywhere — that would exist a factor if we were actually traveling to go encounter these (recruits)," Riley said. "We would activate somebody. But in this example, yous know, we'll utilize the staff that we accept. Everything's gonna be done virtually anyhow, so I don't anticipate much departure."

Beamer was built-in in Charleston, SC, when his dad — Hall of Fame double-decker Frank Beamer — was an assistant at The Citadel. Beamer played for his dad at Virginia Tech, then began his coaching career at Georgia Tech and Tennessee. He coached at Mississippi Country for 3 years, and so spent the next 11 years at Southward Carolina, Virginia Tech and Georgia before coming to OU.

His fourth dimension and experience on the East Declension opened upwards more than than a few doors for the Sooners in recruiting. OU'south 2021 class includes four prospects from that surface area (QB Caleb Williams, WR Jalil Farooq, DB Damond Harmon and DT Kelvin Gilliam). Last year the Sooners landed three (LB Shane Whitter, OL Aaryn Parks, OL Anton Harrison). The 2019 freshman course included two (DT Derek Green and DE Joseph Wete), but Beamer was also involved in landing five-star WR Jadon Haselwood from Georgia.

Clearly, Beamer's East Coast networking and recruiting skills will exist missed.

"Yeah, I retrieve Shane made a lot of sense at the time," Riley said, "and we were already starting to get into the East Declension a footling bit more during kind of our early years here, some of our connections with guys that were already on the staff. So Shane was somebody that, his feel added to that. Obviously the East Coast has been a really strong expanse for us in the last couple years. Yeah, I mean, I'm confident nigh the staff's ability that we have to recruit that area of the land every bit I am, honestly, whatever."

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Riley described some of his hiring thoughts from last year when he hired defensive ends/outside linebackers coach Jamar Cain and running backs coach DeMarco Murray, and how that procedure might apply in hiring Beamer's replacement.

"Every bit with whatever job, we'll try to find the best person that we tin," Riley said, "and there's not always a cookie-cutter definition for these things. You've got to weigh a lot of things. If you have other staff changes — which, I don't anticipate whatever, this is not a precursor to anything — but if you take other staff changes and you're potentially shuffling effectually responsibilities like we did last year when nosotros hired Jamar and DeMarco, it wasn't just as simple as hiring those guys. We shifted some responsibilities around to get in fit, and we'll do the same affair this time.

"Really excited for him. It's a great opportunity. He's really excited near it. It's a special thing for him and his family. It'south a great affair when people in your organization when people get a adventure to move on to new and great opportunities. So, just very, very excited for him, capeesh all he's done."

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