Okay, I admit the first thing I do when I see a Spurrier story is check for Georgia snark. This interview with Paul Myerberg doesn’t contain any (although he extends his “doing cartwheels” remark over going 7-6 to Arkansas), but there is this gem:
Q: As you get older, do you find the offseason to be easier or harder than it’s been in the past? You have more fun in the offseason than you used to?
A: This one will be a bit more intense. We think we’ve got to get our team playing faster, more physical. Spring practice may be a little bit more … sense of urgency, that’s what the newspaper wrote. Maybe a bit more sense of urgency than maybe last year. We were No. 4 in the country, the highest ranking in school history, coming off our third straight 11-win season. The SEC media guys picked us to win the East (Division) and yet when they picked the preseason all-conference team we had one defensive player make the third-team all-defense. We had a couple on offense make second-team, I think.
So we didn’t have a lot of star players but for some reason, everybody just assumed we were going to win six or so conference games and 10 or 11 regular games. But it didn’t work out that way.
“Everybody just assumed”, eh? I wonder how that got out there.
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Lol. The Old Ball Sack’s pettiness and need to remind everybody how good he is knows no bounds. You would think with age he would gain a little more wisdom or something but it almost seems to get worse as he sees the sun setting on his career and slowly has to come to grips with the fact that he will not lead SC to anything that anybody really cares about.
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Wasn’t it Corso that said something like, “I don’t care if Spurrier coaches there for a hundred years, he won’t win the SEC at South Carolina.”
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Touche, Senator. Well played, sir.
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Embarrassing public come-uppance for Spurrier is like bacon or sun dresses on gameday — no matter how much you take in, you never get tired of it.
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Lemme ask you guys…when Spurrier left Florida was there a buncha PR damage from arrested players gettin away with stuff in Gainesville after he won the National Championship and kicked our asses on a regular basis?
Steve Spurrier may not be everybody’s cup a tea, but he don’t do cold pizza either.
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I don’t like him, but he is a good coach and he owns Richt now. He’s won four of the last five and he’s done it with less talent than we have had. He is a jerk of the highest order, but he can coach a football team and he is not one to put up with poor results from asst coaches.
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Apparently he does well against who ever is coaching UGA and Clemson. But seems to falter in games annually that he should win. Maybe he puts too much emotion into beating GA and Clemson and doesn’t save enough for others.
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Seems like there’s another coach that does well against a couple rivals, but manages to lose a few he shouldn’t every year….hmmmmm
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I will say that team with Lattimore and Jefferies was as talented as GAs. Look at the nfl players on that roster. There D line was damn good, their dbs were good and their LBs were pretty good. The RB and WRs were damned good and a scrappy QB.
Those teams were as good as GAs.
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The guy can flat out coach. He did lead SC to a SECC appearance, something we may never see again. I don’t think we will ever see a coach with better one liners than the ball coach. I don’t like the old SOB but he is good for a laugh and I respect the hell out of coaching ability.
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The guy is probably the best offensive game coach of the past 40 years. Except for his couple of years with Big Game Bob in Gainesville, he really never had a defensive coordinator who could come close to matching his ability with Xs and Os.
We could have had him instead of Goof in ’89 … oh, what might have been …
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Dooley would never have let Spurrier come to Athens. He wasn’t going to let anyone come in that might be as good or better than he was and he was going to make sure he could pull the strings in the football program. Spurrier would not have let Dooley control the program like Goff did.
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Agree in principle but Dooley had nothing to do with the hiring of his replacement. President Knapp did it all pretty much on his own from what I recall and mishandled the whole thing.
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That was the story put out, but I know differently. I know Dick Sheridan’s sister pretty well and when he was being interviewed, Dooley was right in the middle of everything. Sheridan was the guy they wanted, he was doing well at NC State and well respected and had contacts in Georgia and South Carolina. They got down to the final negotiations and “the committee” met with Sheridan and gave him a list of Dooley’s assistants who were protected and had to be retained. Sheridan said he couldn’t abandon his assistants at NC State and wanted to pick his own. The committee said the issue was not negotiable and Sheridan walked away.
She said, make no mistake, Dooley was very involved in the process.
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I had heard the story about the assistants. I thought the reason Sheridan turned it down was that he wanted to coach the bowl game with NC State and Knapp said no. At least that’s what the public story was …
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Actually, the public story was that Knapp and the committee leaked Sheridan’s acceptance of the Georgia job before he had the chance to tell his players at NC State he was leaving. (The public story may even have been true, as far as it went.)
JCDAWG83 is right about Sheridan being Dooley’s pick. But Knapp and the committee botched the hiring process up terribly. It ran so long that when Dooley ended his flirtation with politics and came back as AD, the job hadn’t been filled and he chose between Haffner and Goff.
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I was always told that Sheridan was Knapp’s choice, that there was some prior connection, that Dooley went along with it. But, Hey, its a good story, either way.
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This is all after the Erk hire was pooch-kicked, right?
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Through all of that, SOS was still out there and willing to take the job if you believe what he said in ’96 or ’97. Just a poorly handled decision all around. Then, Dooley dithered in ’94 when he should have given Goff his walking papers.
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Dooley was a horrible AD.
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That’s the funny thing that’s gotten lost in the shuffle of Dooley’s fight with Michael Adams. A large portion of the fan base was disgruntled with Dooley’s management of the athletic department by the mid-90s.
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Yeah… last year he thought they were going to be “pretty good” and now we hear about him not having any star players. All the while taking shots at Arkansas and a Tennessee team that he hasn’t beaten since 2012. What a jackass.
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I gotta do this again: Lemme ask you guys…when Spurrier left Florida was there a buncha PR damage from arrested players gettin away with stuff in Gainesville after he won the National Championship and kicked our asses on a regular basis?
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I sure don’t remember any. Again, I don’t like his smarmy, smirky attitude, but he can coach.
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