Shane Beamer’s seen the Gamecocks’ recruiting ranking for the 2021 class and isn’t worried about it.

He understood there was a need to bring in players with experience who could help immediately and he and the rest of the staff prioritized the transfer portal, which doesn’t factor into recruiting rankings.

That’s why Beamer, when talking about this year’s haul of players, isn’t troubled by the lower ranking.

“When you put those guys together it’s an impressive group. What those rankings come out to be, I don’t know. I know it’d be higher than what it is now,” Beamer said. “All that matters to me is these guys are solid people who are hungry and excited to be at South Carolina. I can’t wait to see what we’re going to be able to accomplish together.”

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How much higher, if transfers were accounted for, remains to be seen but it would easily be better than where it sits right now at No. 78 by Rivals.

What excites Beamer about the transfer class is it fills a lot of holes in the roster. The Gamecocks needed to build depth at receiver, quarterback, linebacker and defensive back and picked that up in the portal.

The Gamecocks signed a quarterback in Jason Brown, two receivers—EJ Jenkins and Ahmarean Brown—one defensive back in David Spaulding and two linebackers in Debo Williams and Jordan Strachan just in the transfer class.

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“I don’t know about the rankings, but I look at the video and I’m like, ‘Man.’ You look at these guys you’re evaluating them and deciding if you’re going to recruit them. You watch their video and I watched all the video together of all those guys today. It’s impressive the group we’ve put together,” Beamer class. “Every coach stands up here on signing day talking about how we filled our needs and attacked our needs. I feel like we did.”

Because of the influx of transfers in this class, the Gamecocks signed 13 members to its high school or junior college class this cycle, the lowest number in the Rivals era dating back to the class of 2002.

The Gamecocks only signed nine players in the early period followed by four—Bam Scott, TJ Sanders, LaDareyen Craig and Kolbe Fields—in the February window.

The small high school class is in part why the ranking is low, but it went from being out of the top 100 before Beamer took over into the low-70s.

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“Numbers-wise it’s not a huge class when you look at the signees. Rankings wise it’s not where we want to be but what people don’t take into account is the immediate impact transfers we’ve been able to add to the program who are already in the building,” Beamer said.

“We’ve been able to compliment those guys with fantastic players since then. It isn’t where we want to be, but in a unique time frame for us as a staff, we were really excited about what we were able to get done in a short period of time.”