Shane Beamer reacts to LaNorris Sellers, Mike Shula creating poop tradition

South Carolina quarterback LaNorris Sellers revealed a motivational tactic on Tuesday that coach Shane Beamer might have preferred to keep in house. That being the use of poop to dissuade quarterbacks from making the same mistakes over and over again.

Offensive coordinator Mike Shula apparently has a pretty realistic poop replica that sits on his desk. And when quarterbacks make repeated mistakes on things he deems unacceptable, Shula asks his quarterbacks to retrieve the poop.

They plop it on his desk and Shula has to live with it. The message is quite clear: Don’t crap on the desk.

“I’m well aware,” Beamer said Tuesday when probed by reporters about the new revelation. “There’s certain things that I think need to stay in house, and that was probably one of them. But yes.”

As for the merits of the poop-based system, the proof will be in the pudding. Sellers is considered a potential Heisman Trophy candidate. And with a little more development, he might just be able to lead South Carolina to the College Football Playoff.

To that end, Beamer’s good with the poop as a motivational tactic. Even if he’s so-so about the idea himself.

“Kind of whatever. I hire coaches and trust them to do their jobs and what not,” Beamer said. “I wasn’t really aware of it.”

He became aware of it recently — as did the media thanks to Sellers — when he sat in on a team meeting. He explained.

“I go to the quarterback meetings most days and I was in there last week, we had a couple basketball coaches that were here visiting and I was sitting there with them,” Beamer said. “Something came up and Mike told Cutter (Woods) to go get it. You know what? I didn’t know what was going on and then Cutter came back carrying the piece of you know what. He kind of enlightened us on the backstory going back to when he was with the New York Giants.”

As far as a verdict on the poop? Beamer isn’t ready to deliver one just yet. If it produces results, though…

“Whatever it takes to connect with guys and motivate them, I’ll all for,” Beamer said.