Shane Beamer was fine with how people on the outside viewed his football team. Specifically for the people in charge of the rankings, he publicly told them not to rank the Gamecocks this week and instead keep “crapping” on them.

South Carolina football coach Shane Beamer has a grievance about the way his team was portrayed last season in the news media.

Across his first three years at South Carolina, first-time head coach Shane Beamer only led the Gamecocks to a bowl twice and is coming off a 5-7 campaign in 20