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
I really am excited about being here, ... I think we're very close to competing at the top level.
Being a bowl team is a wonderful achievement for so many teams, and if you look at the history of the University of South Carolina, a bowl game is pretty good.
But he's the best we've got, and that's who we've got to go with. Just try to get him to go a little quicker.
The kids that play at a higher level, if they are good players at that level, then maybe they would have a little priority over a kid at a smaller level.
Their styles are very similar, ... He's learned a lot, he has a wonderful attitude and has tried to learn as much as he can. For a first-year quarterback in a brand new offense, he had a good night the other night.
I just think we couldn't hit anything. You have a lot of plays ready that you'd like to get to. Shoot, we never got to them.
I remember every game I ever played. I can go back to junior high if you want.
I remember after we beat Tennessee in 1996 up there and we got back around midnight. We went to Nappy's and watched Arizona State beat Nebraska. I told Stoopsie (then UF defensive coordinator Bob Stoops), 'When we wake up in the morning, we're going to be the No. 1 team in the country.'
I haven't heard anything about it. I don't know if he busted (the window) out. I don't know anything about it.
If I went back there, I'd be doing something I'd already done,
I'm not ... those walks schools do, we've never done that. We've basically just bused up next to the locker room.
I'll cross that bridge if it comes to that, ... The thing I've tried to do all this year is not be lingering around, acting like I'm waiting for another guy's job. I don't believe that's the right way to do it. But now that he doesn't have a job, I guess there will be some discussion. We'll see what happens.
If the play goes bad, it was a bad call - even though it might have been a pretty good call. That's just the way it is, and we accept it and move on.
They just kept making third and long and some fourths. We have to get better on that down. It shouldn't be that easy for teams to make that play.