His special teams units recorded five blocked kicks that season, tying for the SEC lead and tying for the eighth-highest total in the nation. He was nominated for the 2009 Frank Broyles Award, which goes to the assistant coach of the year. At South Carolina, Beamer coordinated the special teams and coached outside linebackers, and in his final two years served as recruiting coordinator.Wilson was a first-round NFL Draft pick by the New York Giants. In his first year as an assistant coach at Virginia Tech, he provided mentorship to David Wilson, who broke the school’s single-season rushing record and was named an AP All-American and ACC Player of the Year.Coleman stepped up late in the season and earned Military Bowl MVP honors, a game in which Beamer served as the acting head coach while his father watched from the press box following throat surgery. His 2014 group suffered through several injuries that hampered production, but tailback J.C. Beamer’s 2013 Virginia Tech running backs didn’t fumble the ball in 350 combined attempts, marking the first time in his father Frank’s head coaching tenure for the feat.Returner Mecole Hardman led the SEC in punt return average (11.8 yards) and ranked second in kickoff return average (25.3 yards). Rodrigo Blankenship made 21 of his 24 field goal attempts (87.5 percent) to lead the SEC in FG percentage, while Cameron Nizalek’s 42.0-yard net punting average was the second-best mark in school history.
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