SOUTH CAROLINA COACH IS FEELING IT …
SEC Media Days is underway in Birmingham, Alabama, which means the Steve Spurrier show is about to begin … or continue, depending on how you want to look at it.
Spurrier, 69, is in the midst of a career renaissance at the University of South Carolina – turning a program that defined mediocrity for over a century into a bona fide national powerhouse. After posting a middling 35-28 mark in his first five seasons in Columbia (including a losing record in conference play), Spurrier has gone 42-11 over the last four seasons. That stretch includes three straight 11-win seasons, three straight New Year’s Day bowl victories and three straight Top Ten finishes – a level of success South Carolina fans only dreamt about prior to his arrival.
Perhaps most importantly, Spurrier’s teams have won five straight over arch-rival Clemson – which is even more impressive considering the Tigers have reemerged as a national powerhouse over the last three years (posting a 32-8 record during that stretch).
The “Head Ball Coach” is feeling it, too … as evidenced by the fact he’s back in the smack-talking form that drove opponents crazy during his 12-year career at the University of Florida (1990-2001).
Last month, Spurrier went so far as to train his trash talk on University of Alabama head football coach Nick Saban – who has won four national championships (including three in the last five years with the Crimson Tide).
“How many SECs has he won there in eight years?” Spurrier asked of Saban. “He’s won two. He’s won three nationals but he’s only won two SECs in eight years. Now if you had the No. 1 recruiting class every year and so forth, I don’t know if he has maxed out potentially as well as he could.”
Whoa …
We get that Spurrier has plenty of room to run his mouth these days. Hell, this website was ragging him out like nobody’s business back in 2009 … before he ordered us a nice tall glass of STFU.
But Saban? The guy whose teams have gone 72-9 over the past six seasons? Isn’t he one of the handful of college coaches Spurrier doesn’t have room to criticize?
Of course in Spurrier’s defense the last time he went head-to-head against the top-ranked Crimson Tide, this happened …
“The biggest takeaway from this … is that Spurrier is feeling pretty good about his South Carolina team,” USA Today ‘s David Climer noted. “Even with the losses of Jadeveon Clowney on defense and Connor Shaw on offense, Spurrier is bullish on his Gamecocks. History tells us that the more confident Spurrier is about his own team, the more likely he is to fire verbal shots across the bows of rival programs.”
Gamecock fans certainly hope that’s true …
139 comments
Senility??
Yes indeed. If you watch closely he demonstrates all the same emotions as Woody Hayes did before CORRECTLY punching that Clemson wimp on the sideline. The Clemson player didn’t even have guts to fight Woody.
The ‘ole ball coach’ appears to be a lunatic however he still has the ability to motivate his players.
I used to laugh at him until I figured out that along with Coach K and a couple of others , Spurrier figured it out long ago and will be missed.
Shamecocks still suck and cheat. :-)
He “Correctly” punched a player? WTF?
And a Clemson “wimp”? Charlie Bauman had just intercepted Art Schlisters pass to win the game, and later said that he didn’t even know Hayes punched him. I doubt you’d have called him that to his face then, or even now.
yes Correctly is WTH Sexy Saudi Sandy said
Wow, I’m no Clemson fan at all, but suggesting a coach was “correctly” punching a player? That’s zero class. Woody Hayes better be glad the player didn’t notice because he missed out on a serious ass beating he very much deserved.
If you don’t have enough respect for the sport and the athletes in it to hold back on cheering a coach physically assaulting a player, there really is no hope for you.
If that player had punched Woody he would have likely killed him, back then Woody was 100 years old and 92 pounds soaking wet.
Senility??
“Pride goeth before a fall.”
Let him do his thing (whatever that may be)..I just hope Dabo shuts up and wins some games.
Unless you’re a cat.
“Spurrier has gone 42-11 over the last four seasons. That stretch includes three straight 11-win seasons, three straight New Year’s Day bowl victories and three straight Top Ten finishes”
and yet not 1 SEC Championship much less a national title.
I’m no Bama fan, but I don’t think little Stevie has much room to criticize Saban.
It’s easier to win a national championship than an SEC title. An astute observation.
And that’s the ultra-verse in which Carolina lives. And ,as any sober Clemson can attest, Carolina is 5 times better for it.
considering Alabama has 23 SEC Championships under their belt I’m not sure what your point is
The point has little to do with Alabama specifically. But Alabama has a historically amazing program which continues to win SEC Championships.
It ain’t bragging if you can do it.
Well…he hasn’t done it yet. Sure, he’s beaten my Alma Mater like a drum since we brought Dabo in board, but outside of SC..who gives a damn?
No SEC titles, certainly no national titles, and a few secondary, non BCS bowl wins.
Congratulations, Steve! You beat Clemson 5 times. But I guess over at USCeast, thats enough.
Compared to the previous 111 years, Steve Spurrier has done it. More than 1/3 of the bowl games the Cocks have played in had Steve Spurrier as the head coach, in fact, they’ve been to a bowl game the last 6 years in a row. In the last 4 seasons: SEC East Champ, 3 in a row 11 win seasons and 3 in a row Bowl wins. Top 25 AP finishes and Coaches poll for the last 4 years. Add all that to his success at Florida and he has run up coaching numbers as good as Bear Bryant – arguably the best there ever was.
Should he shut up and just coach? Sure, we’d all be a lot better off if our “stars” would talk less junk but like Dizzy Dean said, “…it ain’t bragging if you can do it….”
There needs to be an ” * ” around that accomplishment, the majority of those years you couldn’t go to a bowl with a 6-6 record like today.
No argument, of course there were far fewer bowls back then and far fewer colleges playing football at that level. Even UNCCharlotte has added a football program now.
“SEC East Champ = district runner-up. Win a championship. ANY championshipo. Then we’ll talk.
Remember that this conversation is about Steve Spurrier and then consider the eight championships he has won, National Championship, ACC and six SEC Championships.
Then there’s that Heisman, 2x All American, ACC and SEC Coach of the year (2x and 7x respectively)
Also BDPU (Before DirtPecker University)
None of which at USC.
BS. He has neve coached on the West Coast.
So it’s a history lesson…
Well…Florida and Duke.
But, yeah, no Sakerlina…..
DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOK!!!!!!
Whatever Squishy.
Whatever Omaha/OGOB
I only post on this handle.
at the moment
I guess thats the way the logic works for a Cock fan. The ACC sucks when Clemson wins in it, but its obviously a really big deal to cock fans when USC beats Clemson, an ACC member.
That logic doesn’t really work, does it?
once again read above squishy but since I know you are too dumb like someone from LSU Ill copy it down here for you.
“I know you meant in football, but you did say “win a championship. ANY championship” and they do have more national championships in baseball than you do. So before you talk shit, word it right dumbass, or else you look as stupid as someone from actually from LSU. Good try though Squishy
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We all know around here that I’m the only person who doesn’t praise the ground Dirtpeckers walk on. So I guess using your logic, I must be using a dozen different names on this blog.
People tend to forget. USC won the 1969 ACC. Another year, had the best record in the ACC but was on probation. Might have a Southern title, not sure. In 1984, went undefeated in the ACC. Many, many other years after leaving the backstabbing conference, ran the table in football, or had, as only loss, Pickens Tech. There would be a nice trophy case of ACC titles had the conference and Clemson had any integrity. Problem is, we are so close, Clemson folk are getting nervous they will lose another trash-talking point. On top of the five bomb.
FEAR THE OTHER THUMB!
Yeah, but what I’m hearing is that the ACC is nothing more than a poor excuse for junior college football.
“In 1984, went undefeated in the ACC.”
How’s that? They were still an independent.
The rest of what you said is pretty incoherent
USC has never been in the ACC. Get it right.
and Dabo manged to put the BS in a BCS bowl. Laugh when i see clempson fan? these days. As Mama always say “bless their poor little hearts”
This is the year that will determine whether Clemson has come back as a national powerhouse. The schedule is strong, and the superstars have left the building.
Why no talk about the outlandish “state” salary increase for Spurrier? From 300k+ to over 1 million? Sounds like someone is looking to bump their last three years for calculating their state retirement so as to live well off the teat of this state in their retirement years.
I brought this up over a month ago, Will refuses to even respond to it.
“Slurrier” will have another scotch please.
No, really–He was just tired.
Screen says this article was posted 6 hours ago and TBG kicked off the commenting 7 hours ago. By God we’re in a time warp.
If you are familiar with TBG’s comments then you are aware that he is clairvoyant.
*smiles knowingly*
You either love Coach Spurrier or you hate him and these days most Clemson College alumni/redneck fans hate him. As the old saying goes “if you talk the talk, you gotta walk the walk” and Coach has been doing that the last five years (especially the last three years) and I’m enjoying the living shit out of it.
Who are you kidding…UCS fans hated him more than anyone when he was Florida’s coach. Remember the “black out”? hahaha
It’s a nice story to comfort yourself with. But not all USC fans hated Spurrier. Even when he was kicking out ass. Lou Holtz told a story about how, when his wife had cancer, Spurrier arranged for Beth to be seen at the UF Medical school oncology program, one of the best in the country. And one reason the Holtzes live in Florida is for Beth to be close to Gainesville. There is a world of difference between Spurrier the trash-talking coach and Spurrier, the human being. Only an ass thinks the former is the same as the latter. Never thought he was a possibility when he went to the NFL and when he left the NFL. Yet, voila!
Who gives a shit?
I remember when Dirtpecker U. fans used to feel the same way about Spurrier when he was with Florida. Dirtpecker U. fans used to spit on him as they ran through the tunnel.
Faith in God and balls will win football games. If Thompson is lacking in one or the other, we will go to Connor Mitch. It is that simple. You do the math.
Please do not tell me a guy with that kind of turnaround is doing something wrong.
Well, it looks like at almost 70 he’s finally letting gray stick around. I wonder if he has his wife dye his hair, or if he pays off a beautician in West Cayce to keep her big mouth shut and not tweet out pics of Steve in tin foil rollers?
South Carolina now up to 3rd ranked recruiting class in the country for 2015.
Well..that always means something.
Yeah, Alabama’s #1 ranked classes for the last 5 seasons or so definitely had no impact on its success. Go play in traffic son.
Jackie, two things. National signing day is in February 2015 not today. What is more important is who out of the group you sign that you can get into school. Recent MSM reports indicate that 8 of your 2014 signees either won’t or haven’t made it in yet.
Your tears are delicious.
If facts equal tears, then please enjoy them.
And where did you get they had a “top 3” recruiting class?
http://collegespun.com/sec/south-carolina-sec/report-as-many-as-8-south-carolina-signees-may-not-make-it-to-campus#
If almost half of them can’t even get into USC (lol), does that still make it a top 16 class?
You donkey, there’s a difference between 2014 and 2015. Which is why I wrote 2015. Guess you clemson fans “dont need no stupid math” to work at Mcdonalds since “dem new fangled computers” do the math for you.
https://rivals.yahoo.com/footballrecruiting/football/recruiting/teamrank
http://247sports.com/Season/2015-Football/CompositeTeamRankings
But hey, I guess you had to start counting numbers back in 2008 since it hurt your brain too much to add up the difference between SC’s score and Clemson’s score.
I guess my calendar must “need some stupid math”, ’cause it hasn’t hit 2015 yet.
The only incoming signing day class USC has is from 2014.
God, you’re a donkey. You rank classes going forward because they’re signing for the 2015-2016 season. Are you seriously this dumb or is this a troll post?
“tiny penis” has always been nothing but a troll poster
Ask ‘Bama what it meant to them last year..no SEC championship nor National Championship.
And how many of those in that “top ranked” class will qualify? You have no way of knowing..noone does.
(He typed, tears in his eyes)
Edit..we now know (at least) 8 / 21 won’t.
As a Bama fan, eh we are fine. You can’t win every year. Every other year is fine with me. Oh crap! Just tripped over all these trophies!
It’d be higher if they’d recruit athletes who could academically qualify… high school is hard.
Squishy, you hit the nail on the head. The incoming recruiting class appears to have 6 non qualifiers. That recruiting class will now fall because those 6 were 4 star type players. Sawyer, Wideman, maybe Lammons, etc. Great recruiting classes are fine if they actually play, prep schools and junior college does not do the Gamecocks any good.
They oversigned last year knowing there would be academic casualties. Sawyer and Wideman were never expected to enroll this year. With some great players, you sign them knowing you will simply place them in JUCO or prep school.
Isn’t USC supposed to be an academic school? Why recruit people who knowingly won’t meet the minimum academic standards… which aren’t exactly all that difficult. Shaquan can run and catch a ball, but he can’t fucking read or write… “he’s college material”.
Who proclaimed USC an “academic school.” While I appreciate both of my USC degrees, in no way am I deluded into thinking they are Ivy-league equivalents.
While I don’t want us to recruit thugs, I’m more than happy accepting borderline students so long as they behave and can play football.
So USC isn’t an academic school? That the institution is here primarily for the purpose of fielding a football team and the stands with “borderline students”?
Does Harris Pastides know about this?
Don’t be silly. Your original comment suggested that some proclaim it is an elite academic school. I have not met those people. It is what it is: a solid, state university.
Tell that to the Board of Directors who are working to make USC a Tier 1 research school. Do you get there by bringing in “borderline students”?
At this point, there’s too much money to drop sports all together. I don’t necessarily disagree with your last paragraph, but I love college sports enough that I’m willing to live with the fiction that they are “student-athletes” when I know that most are athletes first and students second (if at all). This applies to all major sports schools.
You are obviously entertained enough to hate the Gamecocks’ continued success, even to the point of pretending to be an Auburn or LSU fan while calling us names (dirt-peckers) that are more appropriate for a middle-schooler than someone who allegedly has a college degree and a job.
So you’ve never called a Clemson fan a “tater”, or any other school fan a derogatory name…
I haven’t met any either. Just saying.
“You have to try real hard to fail at South Carolina.”
Kind of sad that 1/3 of their 2014 class may not be able to play due to grades.
High school is hard. Which is why you hear all the screaming at graduations as if they’d hit the lottery.
I love it when a coach such as Spurrier, while at USC has won 0 SEC titles and 0 National Titles feels it’s okay to criticize a coach who has won 2 SEC titles and 3 National Championships during that same time-frame. Spurrier has always been an arrogant cocky little bastard, except for his NFL coaching career when he sort of got his ass handed to him week after week.
(he lisped)
And he did beat the shit out of that same coach the last time they played too. The nerve of him. Next he will pull a Dabo and claim to be a national Championship team then get waxed against USC, and FSU to not only not win a national title, nor a conference title, nor the state title.
“Even a blind squirrel will occasionally find a nut”
I guess so, some shitty D2 school let your scrub ass sit the bench for them didn’t they?
So another user name Yep/OGOB/Omaha? Do you sit around and reflect riding the pine as a supposed Dirtpecker baseball player back when they would have trouble beating the women’s softball team?
Believe it or not, there’s more than one of us who thinks you are just a sad, jealous hater. I find it funny that the Gamecocks’ success has you tied in knots. I don’t need multiple accounts to tweak you, as the Gamecocks seem to be doing a fine job unassisted.
And I’m supposed to care why???
If you don’t need multiple accounts, why do you keep changing your name? The name changes, but you’re still the same old pine riding “Gamecock baseball player” from years when they really, really sucked.
OGOB has been posting on here for years. Omaha isn’t him. Carls Jr also has been calling you a fucking idiot for a while too and is someone else. We are not the same person you dumbfuck. I’m the only one that calls you what you really are. My bitch. Its funny D2, that’s what you always will be, just like that whore of a mother you had. Her rates went up. $1.25 for anal now wow.
And he comes back with yet another name.
Still 25 cents more than your mother charges, and your mother has a discount card..
I love how you just had a rant off against someone else but the whole time your dumbass thought you were talking to me. I was gone, too busy with momma squishy, and come back and see this. Man I should have pulled out so you couldn’t have been born.
Your posting styles are the same, so as far as I’m concerned you are all the same person, which is likely a correct conclusion.
BTW, my mother passed away 15 years ago from cancer. So if you want to continue with insults such as the ones you known for, it just speaks volumes about your character. But I know you don’t give a fuck.
This coming from the piece of shit that changed his name to squishy after a Carolina football fan lost his life. The same one that laughs at suicide and you want to talk character? Go fuck yourself, you will get no sympathy from me. In fact if I knew where that bitch of a mother of yours was buried, I’d take a dump on her grave you fucking asshole
Boy that got you riled up.
Yeah I was remembering that last time with your mom, it was so hot it got my blood pumping.
My mother’s been dead for 15 years, so I assume you’re mistaking my mother for your own.
Yep “old mamma squishy” I miss. I her I haven’t seen her in about 16 years, but she could suck one better than anyone else. she did this thing with her tongue well I am sure most on here remember too, she got around.
I don’t really care what you believe, but I’ve changed my name once on this site. I used to post as “Good Old Boy” until I noticed someone else using the same name. SInce then I’ve stuck with the same handle and have never posted with another name.
But keep believing I’m Omaha or Carl’s Jr. or Squishy is my Bitch if that’s what helps with your delusions. Just because you take on different personas and pretend to be a fan of Auburn, LSU, and Clemson doesn’t mean everyone else acts the same way.
https://vine.co/v/hxvm3Dj2mdV.
or another funny one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfgYFQ1X9q8
I think it’s funny how much you hate Spurrier and the Gamecocks. It’s evidence of just how far they’ve crawled up your skin. Your whining dominates the postings on any thread about the Gamecocks.
You seem to care a little too much about the Gamecocks and Spurrier. Jealous much?
Actually I hate all arrogant fairweather people, so of course I hate Dirtpecker fans. They go hand in hand.
(he typed, wiping tears away from his cheeto stained face)
and you get an erection.
(he typed, hoping to have a conversation with another man about an erection)
Well we know in your case that those don’t happen very often, because of that terrible vacuum cleaner accident.
(he responded, fondly recalling the one time his mother caught him stuck in the vacuum cleaner)
Don’t forget the time it was in the cats bunghole.
“Wait ’til next year!!!”
(Squishy circa 2008)
Jackie, the bandwagon fan… but aren’t they all.
Week 1, “FIre Spurrier!!!”, Week 2, “Spurrier is the greatest coach ever!!”, (repeat)
Bitter, Bitter Tiglet. Hope you are ready for #6.
carls jr/OGOB/yep/Omaha… are you also GrandTango/Emily/BigT
(Squishy describing clemson fans’ weekly opinion about Dabo)
win a championship. any championship. then we’ll talk.
I know you meant in football, but you did say “win a championship. ANY championship” and they do have more national championships in baseball than you do. So before you talk shit, word it right dumbass, or else you look as stupid as someone from actually from LSU. Good try though Squishy
Nice try, OGOB from above.
not me either idiot.
I don’t know who squishy is. But a statement such as ” stupid as someone from actually from LSU,” doesn’t exactly make you a scholar. In fact, I did go to LSU. I graduated. I played football there – really, in the late 70’s. I know a little bit about the game and what it takes to compete at that level. Football has changed a great deal in many ways. But in many aspects, it’s the same. Geaux Tigers.
If you say so, Squishy.
Why would I post under another name, I’m not like some of you around here who try to maintain conversations with themselves. If I have something to say I use Squishy123.
“…which is even more impressive considering the (Clemson) Tigers have reemerged as a national powerhouse over the last three years (posting a 32-8 record during that stretch).”
32-8 in the ACC? Not bad- that would translate to at least a .500 mark in Conference USA…
Or a winning record in the SEC
Spurrier personifies all gamecock fans, Alabama mouth, Vanderbilt Trophy Case.
And Dabo has filled Clemson’s with the trophy equivalent of a Happy Meal prize. So proud.
Didn’t USC win the ACC once? I guess they can just scrap that trophy… maybe they can fill the then empty trophy case with Spurrier’s Beanie Baby collection.
Such a clever and demeaning response, Squishy123. Creative level… scary.
Who said anything about the Tiggers? Just like the Coots, they think all of the SEC supports them as they bandwagon on other SEC schools accomplishments. Little brother syndrome of the short bus of the SEC East is strong amongst the chicken fans.
Uh… well, ‘Cootlumbia’ is a bit of a clue, my de-clawed friend. You might say, “I done deduced it.”
Criticizing him for not winning titles here is like badmouthing the man for fucking lots of women but never getting married.
You’re saying that getting married is like winning a championship?
In your case it would be.
Well, well… Scar certainly has them a good coach! Not much class, but hey who cares? But, we all know what happens when one tends to run his mouth a bit too much…
He pulls a Dabo?
There is room enough for Spurrier not to run his mouth. He develops QB’s painfully slow. He stayed with Garcia much too long because he did not have a back up ready. His defense got a lot of those 11 win seasons. Our running backs were hurt most times. As much as Shaw is Shaw, his running the ball was dangerous. Dylan fizzled out against Mizzou. They were number 5 and most teams we face this year will be “5” caliber. If the O line can not punch holes for Mike Davis, a defense can put pressure on Dylan causing him to lose yards. It was a great bunch of years when Garcia left. Shaw stepped up, a great defense kept it close. After 5 years with Dylan, if he is not a Flacco out there…one one thousand, two one thousand, three one thousand throw, we could be looking at the back up QB for GA.
If he is 69, I guarantee you that he is feeling it.