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
We're not a great passing team because our quarterback is not a scrambler and our protection is pretty good, not super, so we have to pick our spots, we just can't fire it 35, 40 times or something bad is going to happen,
We haven't made a lot of big things happen on special teams, but we haven't had a lot of bad things go against us. So we're probably an average special teams group.
I'm not going to feel bad because a few plays here and there, they beat us, ... I'm going to enjoy being 1-0.
It was a good first day. We'd be pretty stupid to be out here in the rain (today) and let this day go by. I just think it's smart to pick the good days instead of the bad ones.
Oh sure, ... As a coach, you always have a little concern about what possibly could go bad and this, that and the other. But at some point, you say, 'Hey, we've done all we can.'
Blake twisted his ankle. I don't know bad it is. He's on crutches. They say there's no fracture and that it's an ankle sprain.
I don't yell at him near as bad as I used to. We yell at them a little bit, and then we pat them on the butt. We also tell them how good they're doing at times, too, so it's not all negative.
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.
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 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.
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.
To play a team like this and get your quarterback hit time after time after time