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Toilet paper and cooking marshmallows in the dugout: Just don't ask, USC coach says | The State

South Carolina softball coach Beverly Smith wants her players loose. She believes they play better that way, and some of her charges really take it to heart.

Sometimes, a little too much.

That’s how she found herself, in the middle of getting interviewed by SEC Network’s Laura Rutledge on national TV, suddenly surrounded by a set of players who were diligently wrapping both interviewee and interviewer in toilet paper.

A confused Rutledge asked what was going on. A player answered curtly, in a tone showing shewas just focused on the job: Rally toilet paper.

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