South Carolina coach Shane Beamer said Tuesday that he broke his foot after the Florida loss this weekend when he “kicked something (he) shouldn’t have.”
“I was frustrated,” Beamer said. “I thought I was okay, but the adrenaline of the game wore off.”
Beamer said South Carolina athletic director Ray Tanner laughed when he told him about the incident.
The Gamecocks led the Gators by 10 points with five minutes to play on Friday, but Florida led back-to-back touchdown drives, including one buoyed by a huge fourth-down conversion. The Gators scored the game-winning touchdown with less than a minute remaining on the clock.
Beamer said he was frustrated he didn’t do enough to get his team over the hump.
The news of the broken foot comes just days after Beamer’s impassioned postgame press conference when he strongly critiqued his team’s defensive execution down the stretch.
South Carolina fell to 2-4 on the season with the loss. The Gamecocks travel to No. 20 Missouri on Saturday.