Steve Spurrier Story

I hear he likes golf. :lol:

Oh - he also doesn't like bulldogs. :lol:

Will Rogers once said, "I never met a man I didn't like, until I met Steve Spurrier." :laughing1
After everything I've seen this week, it's kinda of nice to share a laugh.
By the way, GO DAWGS!!

Will Rogers once said, "I never met a man I didn't like, until I met Steve Spurrier." :laughing1
After everything I've seen this week, it's kinda of nice to share a laugh.
By the way, GO DAWGS!!

Gatorbait!


I guess one good thing about being a dawg this year is beating SOS. :lol:

Met him at a Citrus Bowl party. Saw him drinking beer, Lou Holtz, however was drinking Scotch. I think Lou had to talk to Steve earlier!

Boy, I just cannot wait any longer for the big UGA vs Boise State rivalry on Saturday. Boise ST and UL Monroe(Sept 17) are UGA's worst enemies. I hope both games will be televised.


Who the heck is UL Monroe? Is that even a school? I bet Coach Dooley scored them that line-up.

Hey Kurt--We'll see.
Football season is coming and oooooohhhhh it's going to be so much fun!!!!!
Love college football.

I was thrilled to see the visor toss near the end of the game last night. It looks like it will be a tough year for Steve-O. His QB looked good - he can coach up a QB. The D has some potential. But wow they couldn't run against UCF! QB will be getting squashed just like at Washington with no protection.

No running game and no defensive line equals six losses in the SEC. Georgia will absolutely destroy USC next weekend.

No running game and no defensive line equals six losses in the SEC. Georgia will absolutely destroy USC next weekend.

I agree - not much room for improvement from the 1st to 2nd game for the cocks. They played pretty good just limited in ability. I was surprised that they seemd to be in worse physical condition than UCF.

Let's hope there's not much improvement from the second to the third game either :lol:

I think SC will be a bruised team (both emotionally and physically) when we play them at Columbia in two weeks.

Went to bed early and didn't get to see the rest of the game, but they looked a little rough against UCF. May be a very long year. He looked happy though before kickoff. In his element. I was glad to see that.

Have collected a few Spurrier stories over the years, but the best one is this: My husband's dad got Steve his first coaching job. Steve was bumming around the golf course in Gainesville one day after his NFL career was over, and my father in law Henry asked him what he was going to do. Somehow they got on the subject of coaching, and Henry called his good friend Doug Dickey and got him a job as an assistant. This was '78 so it must have been when Dickey was AD. Anyway, he was QB coach at UF that year, and then moved on to Georgia Tech in '79 (got fired that year).

It was an inauspicious beginning, as Spurrier was not recognized as a genius (oops, sorry, mastermind) right away, but Spurrier was always keen on crediting Henry with getting him started. My in-laws went to Spurrier's 50th birthday party a decade ago, and Spurrier was very gracious to both of them, which meant a lot because Henry was quite ill.

When Henry died two months later, Spurrier called Mike Bianchi and told him the story, and Bianchi wrote about it for the Gainesville Sun. Whatever you can say about Spurrier, he is a loyal guy, and is capable of being very, very classy.

He's very nice and charming in a non-competitive setting. Great father, teacher, and always runs a clean program. He's a good enough coach where he doesn't need to bend the rules or put up with rule breakers.

If he's beating you he's easy to hate. As he says "If they like you it's probably because they're not losing to you". :lol:

All the jabs, smart-alec comments, and abrasiveness I attribute to him being born and raised in East Tennessee. :razz: And that he hates to lose worse than Bill Gates and Michael Jordan.

All the jabs, smart-alec comments, and abrasiveness I attribute to him being born and raised in East Tennessee. :razz:

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He's very nice and charming in a non-competitive setting. Great father, teacher, and always runs a clean program. He's a good enough coach where he doesn't need to bend the rules or put up with rule breakers.

If he's beating you he's easy to hate. As he says "If they like you it's probably because they're not losing to you". :lol:

All the jabs, smart-alec comments, and abrasiveness I attribute to him being born and raised in East Tennessee. :razz: And that he hates to lose worse than Bill Gates and Michael Jordan.

The best thing that Steve Spurrier did for Tennessee when he graduated from Science Hill High School in Johnson City was to not go back.

We do hope that the Great Pumpkin, as well as the Urbanites, can beat those huge point spreads tomorrow.