When you’re drawing comparisons to Superman by other SEC coaches, heroic plays come second nature. At this point, they’re almost expected when South Carolina’s in peril and the Gamecocks need a spark. Not since Cam Newton’s stellar season at Auburn in 2010 has this moniker been mentioned around the league and now, Shane Beamer has his own version of Clark Kent in redshirt freshman LaNorris Sellers.
He doesn’t need a phone booth to sport his cape, however. There were rumblings after spring and during the first few fall practices that Sellers was ascending after showing off substantial personal improvements in his game since serving as Spencer Rattler’s understudy last fall.
None of that was uttered on the record, though. There was good reason to be hesitant. Sellers hadn’t start a game in his career and his previous highlights had come in garbage time against Furman and Vanderbilt…