Please stop! Please tell me you are smarter than that?
Classic argumentum ad hominem.
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Please stop! Please tell me you are smarter than that?
Guys, this is not a flame, but with all due respect you guys who say you hate Spurrier need to let me know the next time you win 11 games in a season (much less 3 years in a row)
Again, this is not a flame. Before he came to Florida, our history was very similar to yours. If you look at the facilities, financial backing, national profile, wins and losses, etc pre-and post-Spurrier at both schools there is no comparison
If you recall, you had Rex Enright's name painted on your stadium wall as your "winningest coach" with a total of 64 wins. Problem is, he had 69 losses. The difference and expectation levels are night and day
At the end at Carolina, he was simply burned out and tired. Remember, no one has ever coached in the SEC at his age. Bear Bryant died at 69, but looked more like Spurrier's father than someone comparable in age. I think Spurrier's rather youthful looks make us forget his age.
I follow the Gamecocks almost as closely as I do the Gators. Spurrier and Muschamp have made me a Gamecock fan. I root for you guys 11 Saturdays a year.
Both Florida and South Carolina fans should be thankful for Spurrier's time on those campuses. At both places, he laid a foundation and did the "heavy lifting" to set the schools up for relevancy and success into the future.
I think if you dig deeper you'll see that folks are thankful for what he did here. The problem most everyone has with him is the way he left. Old guy or not, he quit in the middle of the year, and before that, he exercised little oversight while his subordinates did not do their jobs - leading to an immediate decline in the program. He promised he wouldn't do that.Guys, this is not a flame, but with all due respect you guys who say you hate Spurrier need to let me know the next time you win 11 games in a season (much less 3 years in a row)
Again, this is not a flame. Before he came to Florida, our history was very similar to yours. If you look at the facilities, financial backing, national profile, wins and losses, etc pre-and post-Spurrier at both schools there is no comparison
If you recall, you had Rex Enright's name painted on your stadium wall as your "winningest coach" with a total of 64 wins. Problem is, he had 69 losses. The difference and expectation levels are night and day
At the end at Carolina, he was simply burned out and tired. Remember, no one has ever coached in the SEC at his age. Bear Bryant died at 69, but looked more like Spurrier's father than someone comparable in age. I think Spurrier's rather youthful looks make us forget his age.
I follow the Gamecocks almost as closely as I do the Gators. Spurrier and Muschamp have made me a Gamecock fan. I root for you guys 11 Saturdays a year.
Both Florida and South Carolina fans should be thankful for Spurrier's time on those campuses. At both places, he laid a foundation and did the "heavy lifting" to set the schools up for relevancy and success into the future.
Very interesting point.Seems he would be more appreciative of South Carolina for giving him an opportunity to rebuild his coaching legacy after failing miserably in the NFL.
It is what it is....Thankful for the success he had here but wish he would show more appreciation for the opportunity the University provided to him and the employment to him and his sons.
all Gamecock fans do not hate Spurrier...only the loud ones...No Gamecock fans hate Spurrier...We are disgusted that he quit working for our program 2 yrs before he resigned....We love what he did for our program in general...But he should have stepped away immediately after the Citrus Bowl win over Wisconsin...He simply did not work for us after that
^ In a nutshell, this right here.You pay a man $4,000,000.00 a year, you expect that his job will be his utmost priority. For Spurrier, the last few years, it wasn't. He even bragged on TV about not working hard and laughed at Saban.
Spurrier gets all the credit in the world from me for getting us to those 3 straight 11 win seasons and beating Clemson 5 years in a row.
He also gets all the credit in the world for torching what he built and leaving us for dead. Screw him for that bs.