Steve Spurrier
Steve Spurrier
Stephen Orr Spurrieris a former American football player and coach, having served as the head coach of three college and two professional teams. Spurrier was also noteworthy as a standout college football player, and he spent a decade playing professionally in the National Football League. Spurrier retired from coaching in 2015 and now serves as an ambassador and consultant for the University of Florida's athletic department...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth20 April 1945
CountryUnited States of America
It will be a completely different game plan. We'll have some new ball plays for these guys.
I told him, if you've got the deep third (of the field to cover), you can't break on that throw, even though you're watching the quarterback,
I tried to get the Redskins to hire him as the general manager, ... Shows you how much influence I had.
I truly believe they're not expecting too much right away, ... They know we're building. You don't go out and trade or get free agents. They understand it may take a little time.
What we know about them is they had a tough, struggling year last year, but that year is history.
I do have some young coaches, but I don't really believe that is the biggest problem we have here.
What I've been telling everyone that loves Carolina football is that we are going to put a team out there that, number one, is in good shape. We're going to be fit, we are going to be able to play the whole game and we're not going to poop out.
I don't want to coach too far into my 60s. By then, I'll be playing golf four or five times a week.
We're actually trying to separate them a little bit. They need to be their own person a little bit more,
When we'd win the SEC we'd get back late and Deano would keep it open for us,
We felt like Blake is much better prepared mentally, physically. He's had an excellent summer working out, and it's clear to all of us here that he's our best guy to go out there. So when it's obvious, we've named him the starter. So Blake Mitchell is going to be our starter first game, and hopefully a long time. We'll go from there. Back-ups we don't know yet, we're trying a lot of guys right there. But Blake's earned it and he's our starter.
We're just looking at him over there, see if he can help us there. He'll probably be back at defense the next day or two.
We've got area's where we think the freshmen are going to play. Don't want to name them but we've got to wait until they get here and see how fast they can learn.
We have some building to do. If you're not controlling the line of scrimmage, it's going to be tough. You have to at least break even along the line and obviously we're not doing that.