South Carolina Gamecocks offensive coordinator Mike Shula
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South Carolina is parting ways with offensive coordinator Mike Shula nine games into the 2025 season.
The school officially announced the move on Sunday afternoon. The news — first reported Sunday by 247Sports, On3 and Football Scoop — comes a day after the Gamecocks managed 230 total yards, one of their lowest outputs of the year, in their 30-14 loss to No. 7 Ole Miss.
“University of South Carolina head coach Shane Beamer announced today that he has relieved offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach Mike Shula of his duties, effective immediately,” the school said in a release.
The Gamecocks’ next offensive coordinator will be the fourth under Shane Beamer since he took over as South Carolina coach ahead of the 2021 season.
It wasn’t immediately known who’ll call plays and manage the offense over the team’s final three regular-seaosn games.
Just two weeks ago on Oct. 18, in a home loss to Oklahoma, audible “Fire Shula” chants broke out at Williams-Brice Stadium multiple times, the culmination of a fan base furious over South Carolina’s play-calling and offensive futility.
Through nine games, of which South Carolina is 3-6 overall and 1-6 in SEC games, the Shula-led offense has averaged the fewest points in the SEC, the fewest rushing yards, the fewest first downs, on and on. And even more glaring: South Carolina quarterback LaNorris Sellers has regressed since Shula took over this offense.
Shula began at South Carolina in 2024, working as an offensive assistant under OC Dowell Loggains. When Loggains took the head coaching job at Appalachian State last December, head coach Shane Beamer promoted from within and named Shula the offensive coordinator, citing his familiarity with Sellers.
Less than a year later, Shula becomes just the third assistant coach Beamer has parted ways with since taking over at South Carolina. And it comes a few weeks after Beamer let go of offensive line coach Lonnie Teasley.
After South Carolina’s loss on Saturday, Beamer was asked about the possibility of making further changes.
“I’ll look at it,” he said. “Obviously we’ve gotta get a lot fixed, everybody in that locker room, right now.”
By firing Shula, who was making $1.1 million a year, South Carolina will owe Shula around $2.4 million — which is to be paid out in monthly installments throughout the remainder of his three-year contract (until Dec. 31, 2027).
The contract did include a duty to mitigate clause, which means some of that $2.4 million can be offset by the money Shula makes at his next job.
Marcus Satterfield was Beamer’s original offensive coordinator at USC, but he left the staff after two seasons to join Matt Rhule at Nebraska.
This story was originally published November 2, 2025 at 12:15 PM.
