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
The first key is pass protection -- giving the quarterback enough time. After that, it's getting guys open. The QB has to know where the receivers are going, how the defenses cover them. You need a smart guy who will make smart decisions 95 percent of the time.
A guy said, 'Coach, you know (the letters) USC is in Citrus now also,
And my dad wasn't a workout guy, ... I work out for 45 minutes, usually five, six times a week.
Their athletes look faster, quicker than in the past, ... Certainly, (they're) a well-coached bunch of guys and they all play hard. You don't see guys loafing around and dodging tackles. They play all out. We've got to play our best to beat these guys this week.
You check my track record what we did with guys who got in serious trouble and embarrassed our university.
You can only play so much golf and lay around the beach,
We're not anxious to play L.S.U. again.
Recruiting can be a little deceiving at times. You never know what you've got until you really, really play it out.
I think I've got an outstanding defensive assistant staff that's really going to help us have consistent, strong defenses. And offensively, we have an excellent staff. We've got some younger guys on offense, but that's what I coach and have my entire coaching career.
But at some point, we've got to have disciplined play and have got to coach better. I'm not putting it on the players. We've got to coach them to tackle and block better. It's as simple as that. If we can do those things, we'll have a chance.
Football players are busy (with) study halls and tutoring. Well, anyway, at South Carolina they are. I don't know about all these other schools.
I really believe everything is here for us to be very successful.
Obviously my last two years in the NFL were not much fun at all.
All I can say is that I'm going to try to coach the way I've coached in the past. And if it ends up not being good enough, then so be it.