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T&L SEC Preview: The State's Ben Portnoy Previews South Carolina

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SuperTalk Mississippi Media

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🗓️ 8 July 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

South Carolina embarks on a new era with Shane Beamer as the man in charge, but are the Gamecocks built to compete in the SEC East this season. Brian Hadad welcomes his former cohort on the MSU beat, Ben Portnoy of The State, to take a look at what Beamer can do in year one. Photo courtesy of AP Photo/Sean Rayford

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A Super Talked Talk Mississippi Media Production.

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All good, I... All right, let's go to the east.

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Let's talk about South Carolina with my handsome young son, Ben Portenoy, covering the

0:11.6

Gamecocks now for the state over there in Columbia.

0:15.0

First off, how are you?

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I'm good man. I'm happy to be back, happy to talking to talking with you,

0:21.0

catching up with you pops.

0:22.0

Your mother is, your mother Jennifer Aniston, she's doing well.

0:27.0

She wanted me to tell you hello.

0:28.0

We enjoyed having you in the Green Room over the College World Series as well.

0:31.0

That was a lot of fun. Getting to talk to you again and providing some great insight for the Bulldog fans who

0:37.2

joined us. But now we're going to talk about South Carolina. I am on the record.

0:40.1

I think this is the worst team in the conference maybe even worse than Vanderbilt this year.

0:44.4

I don't have a lot of faith in Shane Beamer in a minute or less.

0:49.4

Sell me on the why I'm wronger.

0:52.3

I think there's enough pieces here that they can win a couple of games maybe

0:56.6

they shouldn't I think that also the schedule lines up all right I mean you've got

1:00.1

kind of three cupcakes on the schedule and Eastern Illinois, East Carolina and Troy that are

1:06.8

game you should win.

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You've also got Vanderbilt on the schedule and with it being a new team and the new coach there in

1:11.5

Nashville, I think that you probably can get the four

1:13.6

wins you still play an Auburn team within a first year I mean I think on paper

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