He may be quick with a quip, but he’s still a dick.
I guess that made it okay for him to bail. In his mind, at least.
He may be quick with a quip, but he’s still a dick.
Caught up with the HBC himself tonight in Columbia. Coming back to the midlands always reminds him of the way he left… says #Gamecock fans have every right to criticize him for that 2015 season, but "that team had the worst attitude of about any team I ever had." @abc_columbia pic.twitter.com/hMlyk728tw
— Mike Gillespie (@MikeABCColumbia) April 25, 2019
I guess that made it okay for him to bail. In his mind, at least.
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“We remember the Sugar Bowl, I think it my junior year of high school, we let Alabama beat us twice,” Brinson said of a team that also lost to the Crimson Tide in the SEC Championship game. “We’re not letting Alabama beat us twice. In the Sugar Bowl in 2018, they… thought they should have been in the playoffs and lost to Texas.” -- AB-H, 12/27/23
“They can criticize me all they want. I have had enough praise to offset that.”
What a role model and mentor to young men.Thank goodness he is gone.
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Yes, lots of class. All of it low. (Insert groan emoji here)
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Spurrier’s legacy is quitting. He quit at Florida, quit the NFL, then completely walked out on USCe. It’s how you finish that counts, and he always finished by quitting.
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What’s that saying, “Success has many fathers, failure is an orphan”?
I wonder if Spur Dogg ever stopped to consider that a team’s attitude often reflects that of its coach.
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To quote big Julius in Remember the Titans, “Attitude reflect leadership.” I’m not sorry we sent the Head Ball Sack into retirement with a 50 point ass kicking, I’m sorry we didn’t send him into retirement at halftime of his last ass kicking in Athens.
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Nah, based on the way he coached the second half and walked off the filed, I’m pretty sure that did happen (and remember thinking so at the time).
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It was glorious, eh 81? Imagine that had a lot to do with his and his team’s attitude all friggin’ year. The Dawgs certainly righted a wrong of the past such that he can’t brag about it anymore without remembering the same done to him.
Up yours, Steve.
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52.
Dawgs got the last laugh.
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Evil Richt was the best Richt.
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I’ve always taken the position that if a coach builds a program up and takes them to previously unreached heights then they can basically leave however they want. Spurrier did that for Duke, Florida, and Sackerlina. Cock fans can hate him all they want, but the fact is he got them as close to relevance as they’ve ever been (and probably ever will be). Played for an SEC title, had a winning streak against Georgia, and even beat Bama.
But yeah, he’s a dick though.
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The only Cock fans that hate him are all posting under anonymous names on the internet.
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They were a reflection of their coach and the work he was putting in.
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Nepotism contributed to his downfall.
Like a couple head coaches who used to coach in Athens.
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That’s not how you spell asshat Senator.
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First rule of coaching: if your team has a bad attitude, quit and blame them.
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I wonder if SOS gave his team the Lincoln Riley-approved two weeks notice.
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I think he just entered his name in the “I quit” portal.
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If we had Spurrier all those years instead of Richt we would probably have never lost a game. You can say whatever you want but if you can have three eleven win seasons at So. Caro. You can flat coach. I damn sure don’t blame him for leaving Wash. My only surprise is him taking the job to start with. God himself couldn’t work for Snyder, what an egomaniac!!!
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I gave up on my Washington fandom years ago, so I guess it doesn’t really matter now, but I remember being really conflicted about Spurrier’s abrupt departure. On the one hand, I was glad he was gone; on the other hand, I was pissed that he was jetting out and leaving the team such a mess. (Although given what a shitshow they’ve been pretty much the entire time Snyder’s been the owner, who could tell the difference, I guess.) Basically Spurrier thought he could take the NFL by storm by assembling a fantasy team of washed-up Gators, and when that predictably failed, he turned tail and ran.
Good coach at the college level and everything, but I’ve never had any respect for him and never will. Not that I think that’s keeping him up nights.
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Darth Visor does not fail. Others fail him.
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The only praise that i know of being sent his way, was the medical help he got Mrs. Holtz (Lou’s wife)…other than that, hey spurrier,FU… NOW AND FOREVER!!!!!!!
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Spurrier was there for years so he recruited and cultivated those attitudes.
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The 1966 Dawg rush featuring Bill Stanfill burying Spurrier and the ditch lizards is my all time favorite memory of the small ball corch. Second favorite is the 2015 Dawgs hanging half a hundred on his sorry ass!!
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Typical SOS….It was all on the players.
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