Cola G'Cock ... I suppose it's easy to approach 25,000 posts when you repeat yourself at least a dozen times on a thread. We get it, you don't like Coach Spurrier. We get it - you, and a few others (I'd venture less than 10%) ... 'fans' like Atlanta Cock consider SOS a Gator, you always have and always will.
What SOS did wasn't 'quitting' it was done hoping to redirect the team and personally, I think it helped. He stayed a year too long (by request) against his own good judgement, which at least provided his detractors (like you) the opportunity to express your constant and consistent dislike for the guy ... so launch your meaningless tirade.
The facts are indisputable, Spurrier changed SC football in a way no one else ever came close to doing.
Our entire program is better and Gamecock fans are more excited about the future than ever.
I think Coach Muschamp's the guy who can and will get us to the 'next level'. I certainly hope so.
Beating up SOS is old news and silly. He's a terrific ambassador for 'Carolina football - a true legend in the SEC - respected by coaches everywhere, THE guy who changed the face of the SEC - how the game is played, no one's come close to his record of turning around truly and historically inferior football programs ... he did it three different times at three schools who were either down (WAY down - Florida) or out (WAY out - having NEVER been 'winners' - South Carolina ... or having failed to win for 50-years - Duke).
His program's were always clean ... if he 'suffered' any disconnect IMHO it was as much societal as anything - unable to 'connect' with so many of the kinds of players transitioning to college football these days.
The guy's a stone-bargain at $100K ... which by the way ain't some afterthought largess but a part of his contract negotiated several years ago in the midst of the greatest run in SC football history.
When he took the Gamecock job Tommy Bowden was earning 2X's what we paid SOS. When he turned down 'Bama before they hired Saban he turned down 2X's what we were paying him, content to accept a $750K raise instead of leaving for MUCH MORE money - although even with the bump he earned $1 million LESS coaching here than he would have STARTED AT coaching for the 'Tide.
And Spurrier gave BACK ... supporting other 'Carolina sport's coaches, attending their games and with his own money. A few people (a VERY few) have contributed more money to SC football than Spurrier, while no one ever contributed more to its rise in success and prestige.
Steve Spurrier made SC football an entity not to be taken lightly.
Mine's just another 'opinion' - same as yours.
But all those bowl games and all those bowl wins and all those W's against clemson, including FIVE in a row in the decade Coach Spurrier WAS SC football was something I never saw or experienced before in the nearly 50-years since I enrolled at South Carolina.
And any reading of our football history before 1968 says it NEVER happened before Spurrier arrived in 2005, either.
That's just the way it is. I suppose if everyone agreed on who's a great leader nobody would have ever shot Lincoln, Kennedy or Ronald Reagan.
One man's treasure is another guy's trash. It's the way of the world.
Rock on.
