COLUMBIA, S.C. (January 16, 2014) – The University of South Carolina Board of Trustees has approved raises and one-year contract extensions for head football coach Steve Spurrier and all nine of his assistant coaches, it was announced today.
Coach Spurrier’s contract extension keeps the Head Ball Coach in charge of the Gamecock football program through the 2018 season. Additionally, Coach Spurrier had a clause added to his contract that upon his retirement as head football coach, he would be offered employment by the University as a Special Assistant to the President and the Athletics Director provided he maintains his residence in Columbia and either the current President or the current Athletics Director continue to be employed by the University in their same capacities.
“Our sustained success has put our football program on a level that few others in the country have accomplished,” said Athletics Director Ray Tanner. “We are coming off our third-consecutive 11-win season, which represents the greatest era of success in Carolina football history. In addition, our student-athletes are achieving at the highest level – on the field, in the classroom and in the community. With three-straight Top-10 finishes, South Carolina is as good as any program in the country. The contract raises and extensions for Coach Spurrier and his staff are a reflection of that success and are well-deserved.”
With the exception of defensive coordinator Lorenzo Ward, all of the assistant coaches, including Deke Adams, Kirk Botkin, Grady Brown, Shawn Elliott, G.A. Mangus, Joe Robinson, Everette Sands and Steve Spurrier Jr., have had their contacts extended through the 2015 season. Coach Ward’s three-year deal now extends through 2016.
My staff and I thoroughly enjoy coaching under the direction of President Pastides and Athletics Director Tanner,” said Coach Spurrier. “We appreciate the attitude of our Board of Trustees in keeping our salaries competitive with the rest of the SEC. We all hope to coach here many more years and we still have some goals that have not been accomplished yet.
“We thank our fans for the outstanding support that we always receive,” continued the Head Ball Coach. “A special thanks to all the fans that followed our team to Orlando for the big win over Wisconsin that enabled us to finish a school-record No. 4 in the nation.”
The Gamecocks finished the 2013 campaign with an 11-2 record and ranked fourth in both the Associated Press and the USA Today/ESPN Coaches’ polls. It marked the highest postseason ranking in school history. The Gamecocks posted three wins over teams that finished in the Top-10 (Missouri, Clemson and UCF), five wins over Top-25 squads (Missouri, Clemson, UCF, Wisconsin, Vanderbilt) and six wins over teams that won bowl games (Missouri, Clemson, UCF, Vanderbilt, Mississippi State and North Carolina). The 2013 senior class posted the most wins (42) in a four-year period in school history. The season culminated with a 34-24 win over Wisconsin in the Capital One Bowl.
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And: (to make matters worse in the Upstate) I just read this on SDS: The Vandy job: “Clemson OC Chad Morris is very much in the picture and very interested.”….
Uh Oh….If Morris leaves, no matter who stays at Clemson, they will be in trouble…
What an ACC coach considering an SEC School. How interesting?
I agree. most of em are scared of the SEC. I doubt Dabo wants any part as a coach in the SEC. If Morris really has confidence in his skills, he’ll take the job.
If he can coach at the highest level…he’ll keep it…
Show me one coach offered an SEC who says he’s turning it down because he’s scared of the conference. It’s looking like the SEC has peaked, or other conferences are rising to the same level as the SEC.
Some coaches pursue a particular job more than another. If you know you may not be that good, you’ll try for an ACC job over an SEC job…
Looks like Chad Morris believes he can coach well enough at Vandy…he’s GONE, I’m hearing..and that’s REAL bad for Clemson and Dabo…
You truly are an idiot aren’t you…
I’m a Happy Genius, as long as I wax your @$$ on a daily basis. That is my goal.
Looks like you heard wrong, huh?
Idiot.
“It’s looking like the SEC has peaked”
How is that so? 3 teams in the final top 5, 4 in the top 7, 5 in in the top 15, 6 in the top 20, and 7 in the top 25. What could you possibly be basing this statement on? I am sure you are reading it through orange tented glassed, but damn man, even with that tint you cant make a stupid statement like that.
It’s worked before. Steve Spurrier has been quite successful at it, so why not Chad Morris? If he receives the offer, Morris should take it before his self-absorbed, shyster boss tries to talk him out of it.
Who has who in their heads? An article about USC coaches goes right to the Clemson coach bashing. For a group of fans that say that Clemson sucks so bad, you sure seem worried about what their coaches do.
I just love piling on you. I LOVE seeing you under SC. It’s SO Fun…And i love talking about it…
Its doubtful you are able to do much else but talk. Roll your wheel chair back to the corner and mumble some more at the TV, old timer.
Or, if you are Will Folks sockpuppet to entice people to even read the comments..go make up some more crap about screwing Haley.
So I wonder if the other faculty and staff at Dirtpecker U. will receive huge raises as well? $700,000 I believe would hire 10 faculty members or 15-20 staff members.
Except the athletic department makes USC a profit so it’s not really costing USC anything to give Spurrier a raise.
Not only that: it’s smart to give Spurrier and staff a raise. USC is getting a bargain w/ Spurrier, even in an economy that has been horrible since Nov. 2008.
When you look at the cost of tuition, that keeps climbing…and the number of days faculty work…I think it would be time to ask for salary cuts for the staffs in Big University…
Faculty teaches Obama theology…yet since he got elected, incomes in America have declined every year. I think academia should get docked for providing a product that is returning at a declining rate…don’t you agree???
I don’t think sports should be involved in academia, especially since half of the football team can’t even read…
If you F*#kin liberals did not have myths…you’d have NOTHING…
Many athletes are likely smarter than the Dumb@$$#$ w/ Prof. titles in front of their names. …I’m sure you voted for Obama, and that makes you look like a clueless idiot, no matter how many degrees you have…
I have three, but who’s counting?
Some can count to 20 if they take off their shoes!
Maybe if their tutor, note taker, and test reader help them.
But Squishy proved yesterday he can count to 20, in dollars that is. “$1,$2,$3,….$20, OK former Clemson football player, now I can blow you”
Yeah, but your dad’s my favorite… he pays me with his EBT card.
nice try squishy, I think that man lied to you. He couldn’t be my pops. Didn’t know you were so “low rent” you had to take EBT cards. I heard your street name is “Bitch with dem Luscious Lips” You got it in the showers of that d2 team you “played” for. now go get another towel JV
You prove my point…
So using your logic, for example, Clowney is smarter than Pastides.
How the F would you know what the faculty teaches? You’ve never darkened a doorstep there, much less any other college.
I believe you can go to Dirtpecker.edu and see faculty and the courses they teach.
Must tough to swallow that Dirtpecker U is so much higher ranked than USC.
What about the staff that work year round?
Again: When the whole country is taking a hit on income…yet the cost of college is going up…there is something WRONG.
Liberals hate private-sector earners getting paid, and they want government to control it. I say lets control the money college officials get, especially when the product they produce, because of their leftwing political hate, is deficient…
When those staff generate hundreds of millions of dollars of economic activity per year, I’m sure USC will be happy to provide them with a raise.
Who runs the university? The faculty who are mostly on nine month contracts? The adjunct faculty who are there teaching courses for $3000/course? Does the university not generate millions of dollars each year for the Columbia economy?
USC and Ft. Jackson close and Columbia will dry up and blow away except for the months the hundred or so legislators are in town.
I wonder why you don’t ask the same when Clemson gives their staff raises. Oh that’s right. USC didn’t want you, and you are still butthurt over it, so you feel you need to talk trash about them when ever you can. Get over it JV, they didn’t want you. Now go find another Clemson player to give you $20 for that pretty mouth of yours.
No, I didn’t ask about Clemson because the article wasn’t about Clemson. BTW – the same thing happens at Clemson and every other university around the country.
Wow JV, you actually just said something in a manner not to just bash USC. And here you claim you don’t care.
What? That college athletics have gotten out of control and no longer really a part of higher education? Division I football, basketball, baseball and hockey need to be viewed as farm clubs associated with a university. Treat it as a farm club/minor league where athletes are paid and don’t have to go to class. If they want a college degree they can apply and pay tuition just like every other student. No different than the Columbia Inferno or Blowfish.
As others have stated, the money is coming from the athletic department a separate entity than the university. So the only thing standing in the way is the NCAA.
Spurrier has got it made: a nice raise & extension, plus he gets to live, rent free, inside your head and that of your orange brothers.
Not to mention that he can continue to provide jobs for his kids who likely otherwise would be living in a cardboard box.
Right, good one, his kids. Keep up that keen commentary. You’re not grasping at straws at all. Going through life with orange blinders on, it’s tough to see.
So Jr. and Scooter got those positions on merit? What would Jr. do if is dad quit tomorrow? Would Scooter with little to no athletic talent have been on the team or as a graduate assistant if his name were anything but Spurrier?
And all he has to do is beat Clemson every year. USC has their own version of Tommy Bowden.
win a championship. then we’ll talk.
we beat you in the peach bowl.
Didn’t they win 2 national baseball championships in a row recently?
Morris is gone Sportstalk is reporting…LMAO…Dabo is in trouble…
Well, so much for Cornkoot’s “sources”…
I think you IMMEDIATELY have to wonder why Morris cannot get out of H#!!=-hole U…and why does he want out so badly???…
Could it be…No Tajh, No Sammy…No domination in the All Cupcake Conference…
He’ll owe Clemson 5.2 million if he did, Dumbass.
You might better do your homework….Dumb@$$…Clue to the Clueless: It’s a HC job he got rejected for…
seriously Tango from one Gamecock to another, tone it down dude.
oooohhhh…The speech police. What are you going to do, you ignorant F*#k, go tell Dabo ???…So he can start another insult tirade, and look stupid again???
PS: How many game will you win (maybe 6) if Chad Morris gets hired away…in the All Cupcake???…or if he stays w/ no Tajh or Sammy…he may lose in the All Cupcake, and his career is virtually over….either way: I get to LMAO….
Hey dumbass, I’m a Gamecock fan. The truth is you really do make us look bad. I honestly think you are a moron and wish you were a tater so that I don’t have to be thought of in the same category as you. If I were a Clemson fan, I would love to let you ramble on so that I could post what you say on a site much like the “people of Walmart”, So before someone actually makes a site “commentsoftango.com” please please please shut the F up.
Hmmm…You’re spending all your time bashing a Gamecock, exclaiming, praying for all to believe, you are a Gamecock fan, and you’re making yourself look like a dumb@$$ @$$hole in defense of Clemson…
That makes a lot of sense….LMAO…
Clue: Gamecocks had fans like you in the Brad Scott days. You are the epitome of how a loser looks at life if you are a Gamecock fan. Clemson fans love idiots like you…because when they used to slap the $#!* out of you’d you’d cower, and suck them off. Thank goodness Spurrier’s ridded the program of your kind.
“Spurrier’s ridded the program of your kind.”
I’m a Silver Spur Donor. Does your dumbass donate money? Do you even have tickets to the games, and go? If not I am more of what the program wants than you. You don’t have many friends do you? If you do go to the games, my guess is its a tailgate of 1 and a bucket of Bojangles. I own and have owned a parking space a Carolina Park since I bought the spot from my father in 1998 and he bought 1 of the first when it opened back in 1985 as the first tailgate park in all of the country. you can find me there before and after every home game. I can promise you I am more of a gamecock than you.
Also when the F#ck have I ever defended Clemson? god you are a dumbfuck
You can’t seem to get it right, can you? Which is it? Could he not get a job, or did he get a head coaching job like you were professing yesterday?
One extreme to another…idiot.
Sports talk said it Dumb@$$. Are you illiterate?…either way it’s news, that media, Like Clemson @$$-kissers, like FITS is trying to ignore because of the implications for Clemson…
Trying to ignore…what? News that DIDN’T HAPPEN? Thats not news, that’s fantasy, and its pretty to ignore.
God you are more of an idiot with every post.
How many alumni are Nobel peace prize winners,Pulitzer Prize,etc. no BS leaders on the national and international scene???
Give those figures and forget about the football bullshit.
Neither University of South Cackalacky OR Clempson have done a damn thing for my pocketbook/401K or the price of gasoline.
Fuck a bunch of South Carolina and Clempson football is what i say……………………..
As far as I’m concerned both college and professional football can go to hell.
They Don’t do a damn thing for my weekends………………..
One way or the other