With recruiting and everything else going on lately, I almost forgot about CSS in Columbia. He still scares the crap out of me - I'm glad we don't have to face him every year. It must suck to be a Florida Gator these days. Spurrier is going to bend Urban Meyer over his knee... Lowly Gamecocks Have Visored Visions of Glory 2/7/05 They unveiled the recent stadium expansion at South Carolina last week, a shiny new addition with a fancy weight room, meeting rooms and -- for the first time -- a place to prominently display the program's trophies and tradition. That case, as you might expect, doesn't take up too much space. Want to know why Steve Spurrier is back in college football but at the opposite end from where he left? Look at that trophy case. Want to know why one of football's best coaches walked away from $5 million per year in the NFL to live in a hotel in Columbia, S.C., for the past 2 1/2 months while trying to convince 17-year-old kids that 100 years of futility doesn't mean the next four will follow suit? Look at that trophy case. "They haven't done much here," Spurrier says. "That doesn't mean it can't change." It wasn't that long ago that Spurrier and his wife, Jerri, were sitting in their living room in Virginia. Snow was falling, and reality was chasing it. He was uncertain about his future for the first time since 1979, when new Georgia Tech coach Bill Curry decided -- in what has to be one of the more boneheaded personnel decisions -- not to retain a young quarterbacks coach named Spurrier. To this day, that single event, that fear of failure, drives Spurrier. It drove that moment last winter in Virginia, too. "We looked at each other and said, 'What are we doing?' " Jerri says. "He's found that fire again." Link to Rest of the Article
I think there gonna be the surprise team out of the east next year....with a guy like spurrier the skys the limit in columbia....
Columbia is were coaches go to die... remember this next season Paul Dietzel Joe Morrison Lou Holtz Steve Spurrier... USC will not do anything under Spurrier... what USC needs is a recruiting coach... SS is not that.
While they do have some talent at certain positions over there, I still think that South Carolina is still two years off from really being considered a contender in the East. The best I predict South Carolina to do/be this year, is "spoiler" to either Tenneessee, UGA and especially Florida. I think Spurrier's Gamecocks beat, at the least, one of those, if not two. But I also think they get beat by a lesser program (don't know off hand who's on their schedule from the West this coming season, but I could see a team like Arkansas or Ole Miss beating them).
:shock: I'm gonna respectfully disagree with you. I think he did QUITE a good job when he was with Florida. LOADS of "Spurrier-coached talent" has come out of that school.
I am a Spurrier believer. It won't be this year, but it will happen. If he can keep TN, GA and the ACC teams from dominating recruiting in the State he can win there. TN started 5-6 SC players on their N. Championship team. Those fans have been loyal even with terrible teams. Just wait until he can start winning some.
Spurrier coached... but who recruited them ? SS isn't known for his recruiting... to understand what is going to happen, you have to understand the place... I lived in the shadow of USC and Williams Brice 21 years... USC fans are like Boston Red Socks fans.. .if not for losing they would have nothing to talk about. Its a great town but will never do anything better then maybe a possible East win in a couple years. Hard to get players to Columbia and that has been proven over and over the years. Hell the best Dietzel ever did was win the ACC once (and it was weak when he won it).
With the curse... so left the mystique... don't presume to know more about a program in my home state of which my family follows like most of us follow LSU... My parents /grandparents.. all of them have ROOMS devoted to Gamecocks... my grandfather follows recruiting, coaching staff, etc... he is also a huge booster... he isn't that sure that the SS hire was great... he wanted a younger coach, defensive mind, that wanted to prove himself at the college ranks.
KTeam, who is better than Steve Spurrier? Please just tell me that. When Dinardo was fired, people were saying similar things about the state of our program. Steve Spurrier will not crash and burn. I know about the South Carolina program and I've lived in Columbia and Charleston. Spurrier has national recruiting range and he has the ability to own the Carolinas (after whipping Clemson's ass a couple of times), Southern Virginia, and the always fertile state of Florida. It's amazing to me that people still dare to question Spurrier and his coaching prowess. THE MAN WON THE ACC AT DUKE. THE MAN WON A BOWL GAME AT DUKE - my grandchildren will not likely see Duke make a bowl game (and I don't even have children yet). As for the Boston fans, they don't have to talk about losers any more - now they can just keep voting for John Kerry and Ted Kennedy.
