October 7, 2015 · 9:38 AM

Sad Steve Spurrier is sad.

If this season really is the beginning of the end for the OBC, all I can say is, man, what a way to go out.

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55 responses to “Sad Steve Spurrier is sad.”

  1. Kevin
    October 7, 2015 at 9:47 AM

    I feel not once of pity for that SOB. What goes around comes around. He can lose every game from here on out for all I care. I hope Cocks keep him around, because there is nothing better than a Spurrier post-game presser after a loss.

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    • ClydeBoogie
      October 7, 2015 at 10:05 AM

      They better hide the booze cause ol ball sack sounds like he needs a drink. That would be just great, a drunk spurrier for the rest of the season man get the popcorn.I can hear him now “Yeah, we ain’t shit …..we don’t wanna be shit….and we ain’t never gonna be shit ever again i guess”

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    • Twistification
      October 7, 2015 at 11:05 AM

      I wish “what goes around comes around” applied to Meyer. I would of loved to see him try and turn around that dumpster fire he left at UF. At least the ol’ Ball sack isn’t faking a heart attack and is taking his medicine.

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      • ClydeBoogie
        October 7, 2015 at 2:32 PM

        Maybe he was on meds Twist, you got Hernandez AND Brandon Spikes on the same team. That’s just like having Freddie Krueger and Jason in the same town trying to keep them from killing somebody. Erv probably was taking the hell outta some pills cause i’m sure they threatened to whip his ass a time or two…..or four…or ten or twenty-five.

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  2. Reverend Whitewall
    October 7, 2015 at 9:49 AM

    I really wonder if Spurrier is losing touch with the game in general. I mean, with that stunt he pulled in the offseason about the “enemies”, and mocking other teams for doing cartwheels for going 7-6, he clearly thought he was gonna have a pretty good team this year. My question is………how could he have possibly thought that? He’s seen what a competitive roster looks like, and his current roster looks nothing like that. Maybe it’s just pure ego, he figures if he’s got 22 warm bodies that he can match wits with anybody.

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    • PatinDC
      October 7, 2015 at 11:27 AM

      ” he figures if he’s got 22 warm bodies that he can match wits with anybody.”

      I think you nailed it here. As many folks have pointed out on this blog, he has been lazy in his recruiting because he can make it up with “smarts”

      I hope he loses all the rest of his games this year.

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  3. JCDAWG83
    October 7, 2015 at 9:59 AM

    I delight in the chickens and the OBS misery. I hope he stays around, stealing millions from them for years and the program continues to crumble. The insufferable chicken fans have built him up to the point they have North Korean style banner of him in their stadium. It is like some sort of cult of personality in chicken city. They can’t fire a coach they worship and have built into a mythical figure. If they fired Spurrier, the most successful football coach in SC history, who in their right mind would take the job?

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    • Reverend Whitewall
      October 7, 2015 at 10:13 AM

      I’d be really surprised if he pulled a Bowden and hung around too long. I mean, look at his tenure with the Redskins, it wasn’t working, and he left willingly, and if I remember right, didn’t even ask for the rest of his contract that was guaranteed. Said he didn’t get the job done, so he didn’t deserve the money. If it gets bad enough there, they won’t have to fire him, he’ll go on his own.

      There’s a lot to hate about Spurrier as far as being smug and so forth. But the man has principles. Has never had any implications of cheating, oversigning, mistreating players, anything like that during his career. He was the first coach to publicly advocate for getting the players some extra money, said they could even take it out of his salary at the time. He came out against the confederate flag being flown at the capitol long before it recently became a hot button issue (not trying to stir the political pot here, just pointing out Spurrier’s principles). Yes he can be a bit petulant, smug, etc at times, but he’s also the first to say after a loss that “We got beat by a better team. Got outplayed, got outcoached”.

      LOL, I didn’t intend this to be an ode to Spurrier when I started writing it. Just saying that I don’t think he’ll selfishly hang on in Columbia to the point that they have to decide to fire him. Just don’t think that’s in his DNA.

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      • Jeff Sanchez
        October 7, 2015 at 10:24 AM

        Two words: Stephen Garcia

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        • Reverend Whitewall
          October 7, 2015 at 10:30 AM

          Haha, yes, the most suspended player to never miss a game.

          And yet……if that’s the worst thing on Spurrier’s resume – that doesn’t really refute much of what I said above. I can’t remember all the things he was “suspended” for, but the one I mainly remember was keying a professor’s car. The rest that I can think of were attitude related. Still nothing that I would classify as compromising principles to allow him to play. And ultimately he DID kick him off the team entirely.

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          • AlphaDawg
            October 7, 2015 at 10:40 AM

            He kicked him off the team after letting him play the 1st five games of his senior year, he was horrible for those 5 games throwing 4 TDs verse 9 INTS. But yeah, he did eventually kick him of the team.

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            • lamontsanford
              October 7, 2015 at 11:08 AM

              I thought he finally got kicked off the team for showing up hammered drunk to an athletic department function. Was Garcia USC’s Quincy Carter?

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              • AthensHomerDawg
                October 7, 2015 at 12:34 PM

                I don’t think Quicey was in the same league as Mr. Garcia. 😉
                Garcia–who is known to party like a rock star–was involved in a massive, all-night bender in his hotel room the night before the bowl game. In fact, Garcia’s alleged party became so raucous that the S.C. Highway Patrol – which provided security for the team during its stay in Atlanta – was called to investigate.
                Upon entering Garcia’s hotel room, they are said to have discovered the quarterback in a highly-intoxicated state in the company of five different young women–two of whom were completely naked.

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            • Reverend Whitewall
              October 7, 2015 at 11:25 AM

              What you are saying is factually correct, I just don’t understand what it has to do with my original comment. 🙂

              Looked at on a case by case basis, nothing Garcia did was just EGREGIOUSLY bad to the point that you could say Spurrier compromised principles. Eventually the totality of it got him kicked off the team. I get that you believe he wouldn’t have been kicked off at that point if he had been lighting it up, but neither of us knows for sure either way. And I still say if the Garcia stuff is the worst thing anyone can hold against Spurrier as far as principles go, then that moreso proves my point than disproves it.

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              • Athens Townie
                October 7, 2015 at 1:52 PM

                Your points about Spurrier above are totally valid. He is petulant and I hate losing to him. But he’s one of the classier acts in college football, albeit in his very own way.

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      • Chi-town Dawg
        October 7, 2015 at 10:25 AM

        I agree with Rev. SOS has way too big of an ego to hang around and suffer through many more humiliating losses and losing seasons. I personally think the Cocks will finish with 5 wins at best this year and he’ll retire. The talent level on that team is terrible and it continues to get worse as the rumors persist about his retirement and whether or not he’ll even be around for a recruit’s tenure at USC Jr. He even sounds like a beaten, worn down old man in his press conferences. When he does show signs of life, he comes across as one of those crazy old relatives showing early signs of Alzheimer’s disease. The offensive genus is relegated to running the option play and looking lost for answers to turn things around. I’m loving it, but can’t see SOS hanging around much longer. Enjoy it while we can!

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      • eethomaswfnc
        October 8, 2015 at 7:01 AM

        He left the Redskins because he decided very quickly that he hated the NFL and its lifestyle for a coach (no golf in the offseason). Anyone who goes to work for that asshat, Daniel Snyder, should have their head examined, but SOS didn’t know that at the time.

        I think he retires as well just because it seems he isn’t having fun anymore. He probably knows he isn’t going to win a championship in Columbia now, and recruiting as an AARP member isn’t easy. His defense officially sucks now, and he doesn’t have a QB. He can’t load up on quality JUCO players like Snyder does at K-State. It’s probably good for him to head to Florida, play a lot of golf, and be adored by Jort Nation wherever he goes.

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  4. Dog in Fla
    October 7, 2015 at 10:01 AM

    Rainy days and Mondays and Tuesdays always get HBC down

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  5. Argondawg
    October 7, 2015 at 10:10 AM

    I think Spurrier has always been supremely confident in his own abilities to build a winner no matter what. The game has not necessarily passed him by. I still think he is a great game day coach but connecting with 18 year old kids when you are 70 is just to damn hard. Recruiting has never been his forte. He usually gets the most out of what he has which will probably be 4-8 or 5-7 this year. If he goes another year it will be that much deeper that Carolina sinks.

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  6. Scorpio Jones, III
    October 7, 2015 at 10:15 AM

    I wonder what Spurrier thinks when he hears about 50,000 Georgia fans leaving their team on the field cause its just not fun anymore.

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  7. Debby Balcer
    October 7, 2015 at 10:16 AM

    This weekend’s game us going to be impossible to properly prepare with the flooding in Columbia. They don’t even know where they will play. It seems symbolic of their season so far.

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  8. AlphaDawg
    October 7, 2015 at 10:35 AM

    Fournette will have his 4th straight 200 yrd game this week, pushing him to well over 1000 yrds rushing in only 5 games.

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  9. Macallanlover
    October 7, 2015 at 10:45 AM

    It is the exit strategy that is most intriguing in this. I am sure Steve wanted to out having accomplished his goal of resurrecting SC and having at least one SEC title. It has to be obvious to him that will not happen, even if he wanted to stay 2-3 more years. He is man with many accomplishments and a ton of pride. I know it is hard for him too accept the inevitable fail, but am confident he wants to move on. The SC power brokers also know the changing of the guard has to be made, but they are reluctant to force the issue. The dilemma is inaction by both parties and the talent slipping back to pre-2005 levels with no momentum, and they aren’t far from that now. Spurrier will need to initiate these discussions, and may already have begun that process. He isn’t the only athlete/coach to wait too long, the crash is always ugly.

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    • Dog in Fla
      October 7, 2015 at 11:18 AM

      Excellent point. His exit strategy was determined by his entrance strategy. Had he waited 32 or 41 days, he could have been at LSU, which would have been better for his legacy

      Nov. 23, 2004: Steve accepts South Carolina job
      Dec. 25, 2004: Nick accepts Miami job
      Jan. 2, 2005: Les accepts LSU job

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      • Macallanlover
        October 7, 2015 at 10:20 PM

        He would have been very tough to beat in Red Stick, always difficult when he has the talent and LSU has athletes. Even with the best QB, DE, and RB I have ever seen in Columbia he couldn’t get it done. And he had to make sacrifices to his standards at SC that undermined his program, he didn’t have to do that at FU.

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        • eethomaswfnc
          October 8, 2015 at 7:04 AM

          He would have been downright scary with LSU-quality athletes. Good in-state high school talent with no recruiting competition and personal connections to Florida. The Bayou Bengals could have been a terror even if Little Nicky had come back to Alabama.

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  10. PTC DAWG
    October 7, 2015 at 11:13 AM

    Has “Sides” chimed in? He was crowing about all the talent in Cola..

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  11. Gurkha Dawg
    October 7, 2015 at 11:58 AM

    Hire Spurrier as OC at UGA tomorrow and we will average 45 pts a game the rest of the year and win the NC with ease. Not saying that I like the old bastard but the guy can coach some offensive football.

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    • CannonDawg
      October 7, 2015 at 1:21 PM

      Seeing Steve Spurrier on a GA sideline in a shirt and visor with the “G” on it would convince me that the definition of infinity I once heard is “not that everything can happen, but that everything will happen given enough time.”

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    • AusDawg85
      October 7, 2015 at 2:49 PM

      Let’s make this idea “realistic” for our realists. Let Richt go on mission for 2 years, hire Spurrier for $10mm guaranteed and then we’ll have our Natty and keep Richt when the OBC retires gracefully. Errbody happy!

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  12. Herschel Talker
    October 7, 2015 at 3:34 PM

    His tears are delicious

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  13. Russ
    October 7, 2015 at 5:57 PM

    Okay, I’m just going to leave this here. Hatin’ Ass Spurrier.

    http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2015/10/6/9462587/hatin-ass-spurrier

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