South Carolina quarterbacks have a brand new approach to be taught from errors this season — and it includes a faux piece of poop. Based on LaNorris Sellers, offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Mike Shula retains the prop in his workplace to make classes from movie periods stick.

“It appears to be like like actual poop,” Sellers mentioned Tuesday. “You’ll be able to sit it in your hand and it appears to be like like poop.”

Sellers defined when a quarterback makes an error that reveals up on movie, Shula will direct the participant to go to his workplace and decide up “the dump off his desk.” The participant then leaves the room, retrieves it and palms it to Shula, who throws it on the desk, saying, “That is what you simply did to me.”

Sellers mentioned he hasn’t needed to do it usually, however did point out reserve quarterbacks Air Noland and Cutter Woods have had extra frequent encounters with the prop as they be taught the system.

“If you do not know it, you are going to make some errors,” Sellars mentioned. “However it occurs fairly a bit.”

The ritual, whereas uncommon, has change into a part of the Gamecocks’ quarterback tradition. Shula, who served as a senior offensive assistant at South Carolina final season, returns to play-calling duties for the primary time since he was within the NFL with the New York Giants in 2019.

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Sellers, coming off a breakout redshirt freshman season, goals to construct on that success underneath Shula’s steerage and place himself as an early contender for the Heisman Trophy in 2025. 

After stepping in because the beginning quarterback final 12 months, Sellers completed the season finishing 65.6% of his passes for two,534 yards and 18 touchdowns with seven interceptions. One of the vital physically-gifted quarterbacks in faculty soccer, Sellers additionally rushed for 674 yards and 7 touchdowns on the bottom.

Shula’s return to play-calling permits him to implement his personal strategy. For Sellers, meaning constructing on final 12 months’s momentum, refining his mechanics underneath a coach with greater than 25 years of NFL expertise and persevering with to ascertain himself as one of many premier quarterbacks within the SEC — all whereas ensuring the teachings, even those involving a faux piece of poop on the desk, really stick.