Fergit, hayull.

Ray Goff has a long memory ($$).

When Will Muschamp was hired to replace Steve Spurrier, it brought up two very different emotions for Ray Goff. He was happy his former player was getting another shot to be a head coach in the SEC, but the thought of Spurrier still doesn’t sit well with Goff.

“I was happy for him. He’s a good guy, good person. I’m talking about Will,” Goff said. “I’m not going to say much about Spurrier.”

If you can’t say anything good about someone…

Wednesday morning buffet

It’s a virtual buffet, peeps, so don’t worry about exposure to the virus.

• The Pirate gets a commitment out of a four-star QB from Texas.
• Here’s the transcript from Smart’s conference call yesterday.
• The SEC cancelled its spring meeting in Destin.
• Athlon’s preseason top 25 list has Florida ahead of Georgia.
• Two Rivals pundits think Jamie Newman will be the real deal this season.
• “Using ESPN’s way-too-early preseason Top 25 as a guide, 247Sports national analysts Bud Elliott and Brad Crawford take a stab at which teams are overrated and underrated ahead of the 2020 season.”  Elliott thinks Georgia’s number four ranking is right; Brad Crawford continues to pump the brakes.
• NCAA President Mark Emmert and members of the association’s senior management are taking pay cuts.  I wonder if that will comfort the athletic directors out there irritated about the significant drop in funds being paid out by the NCAA.
• Spurrier, on Finebaum, about spring practice: “Most all coaches would tell you that the staffs that have been there for 2, 3, 4 years or more that it’s not that big a deal not having spring football,” Spurrier said. “Maybe if you had competition at quarterback or some other positions, it would be important, but preseason, if you can get a month in before you play, I certainly think everyone would be capable of playing — maybe not quite their best, but pretty close to playing the best they can. 

“Let me talk about the word quit.”

Steven Orr Spurrier, ladies and gentlemen ($$):

He was thinking a lot, particularly, about Atilla in 2015 when he walked away from South Carolina’s football team midway through the season…

“In my situation, I thought it was like that. In ‘Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun,’ it says, ‘When defeat is inevitable and there’s no way you can win, it’s better to retreat and come back and fight another day.’ Quitting to me has always meant in the middle of a game you have a chance to win and your players or coaches quit on it. That’s quitting. I felt like I was defeated. I needed to retreat, to get out, and maybe somebody (else) could provide a spark that I could not provide for that team. Maybe it was just such that nobody could have helped it much.”

Even as he’s baring his soul, he still can’t bring himself to mention getting waxed by Georgia as a cause for his despair.  Gotta give the man credit for staying on message.

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UPDATE:

He’s still amazed by 38-35 win over UGA in ‘14. “They had Todd Gurley and they ran that naked bootleg down there (1st-goal at 4) and got intentional grounding. Always got an extra little charge out of trying to beat Georgia because they kicked my butt senior year in college.”

— Josh Kendall (@JoshTheAthletic) February 4, 2020

The hot take you’ve been waiting for

No, not this one.  But I digress.

You knew Spurrier would have some snark for one on his former assistants taking a 2-10 team into Neyland Stadium and winning.  And he doesn’t disappoint with this:

Georgia State coach Shawn Ellliott knew his team could exploit Tennessee on both lines of scrimmage. The Panthers believed him, and the result was an upset that didn’t look like one. Elliott’s former boss — an expert at beating Tennessee — was impressed. https://t.co/fe0c5z8TTU pic.twitter.com/ErrTtTwGF0

— Andy Staples (@Andy_Staples) September 2, 2019

The “until” is a super nice touch, I think.

Your Daily Gator emerges victorious.

Sure, I could give you 500 words on Florida’s epic win last night over a team that doesn’t have a functioning offensive tackle, but instead, I’m gonna outsource the job to one Steven Orr Spurrier, who’s forgotten more football than I’ll ever know.

pic.twitter.com/6BBnVOEPNZ

— Mark Ennis (@MarkEnnis) August 25, 2019

That came after Franks’ inexplicable late interception, but there were plenty of other moments worthy of that take.

Oh, and if you wanna get meta for a sec, here’s commentary on Spurrier’s commentary.

Misery in motion pic.twitter.com/iQjzLNpXO4

— Stephen Garcia (@StephenGarcia) August 25, 2019

With bonus commentary on the commentary…

He having flashbacks of you in the meeting room lol

— Tori Gurley (@TGurley81) August 25, 2019

Shut the fuck up tori hahaha. Come on dude

— Stephen Garcia (@StephenGarcia) August 25, 2019

Friday morning buffet

One day ’til college football, and counting.

• One thing Mark Richt hasn’t lost control of:  “I don’t think they are going to win but they are back…”
• Here’s a quick refresher on new rules for 2019.
• Spurrier will say anything to get people to forget how he bailed on South Carolina.
• Georgia hasn’t been the only team that trained in Sanford Stadium this month.
• The launch of the ACC Network has its accompanying corporate gobbledygook.
• Here’s the latest guide on cord-cutting.  Once again, it’s YouTube TV at the top.
• Either the grand poobahs running the CFP are too stupid to recognize bad optics, or simply don’t care.  My vote is for the latter.
• Jacob Eason gets the nod.
• Gus Malzahn’s cliché work is in midseason form.

Say it ain’t so, Stevie.

Man, Spurrier.

Like with many media interviews with Spurrier, at some point during the conversation he talked about his feelings towards Georgia. The 74-year-old Spurrier started off his rhetoric in a modest and respectful tone, perhaps because Herschel was there:

“We couldn’t tell many jokes about Georgia because they were kicking our butts. They beat Florida 15 out of 20 times in the 70s and 80s. So we got a chance to turn it around in the 90s, and so forth.

“A lot of times, those stupid jokes I told – they were just meant for the Gators.”

Lame.  I actually respect him less for backing off the bravado.

Just another day in Paradise

Apparently this is a thing.

Former Virginia Tech head coach Frank Beamer and former Florida and South Carolina head coach Steve Spurrier will coach in the Polynesian Bowl on Jan. 18, 2020, at Honolulu’s Aloha Stadium, the bowl announced on Wednesday.

Beamer will coach Team Makai (Ocean), and Spurrier will coach Team Mauka (Mountain). The game will be broadcast nationally on CBS Sports Network.

Good luck, Mauka.  Your coach sounds like he’s got one foot on the beach already.

“Hawai’i in January to coach in the Polynesian Bowl is about as good as it gets,” Spurrier said in a statement. “I’m looking forward to being part of this amazing experience.”

All I can think of after seeing that quote is this:

That is the look of a man ready to put the hours in.  Don’t forget to pack the golf clubs, Coach.

Steve Spurrier, class act

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.

TFW you run out of Georgia and Tennessee snark

For some reason, Visor Man decided to take a shot at his last place of college employment, where I thought he received better treatment than he dished out.

“I tell you the football gods have been smiling on me the last two (AAF) weeks,” Spurrier said about the Apollos being fortunate to be 3-0. “I think all the crap I had at South Carolina those last two years, they’re coming back. They’re smiling on me a little bit.”

So the football gods were handling recruiting?  That explains a lot.