UTSA Coach Jeff Traylor’s Motivational Ploy Leads to Bizarre Injury

This would be an interesting way to end up on the injury list.

“Don’t eat the cheese,” is one of the most notable phrases in sports, meaning for the teams to not let successes go to their heads.

UTSA coach Jeff Traylor took this phrase literally when trying to motivate the team this week. After the team started on a rough note going 1–3, the Roadrunners have won their last three games to move to 4–3.

Traylor wanted to keep this momentum going without the team getting too cocky, so he placed a mouse trap with cheese on it in every player’s locker. However, Traylor ended up getting his finger caught in one of the traps when he didn’t realize one was on the podium.

“We passed out about 112 of them,” Traylor said, via ESPN. “We unloaded all of them, but one of my smart aleck seniors loaded his back up and put it on the podium where I speak to the kids and I put my hand there.”

Although his pinky was injured in the process of teaching the team a lesson, Traylor walked away laughing.

“It looks like my pinky got smashed by a hammer,” Traylor said. “It would’ve killed a lesser man, but I’m okay.”

UTSA remains undefeated (3–0) in conference play in its first season in the American Athletic Conference.