Spurrier on Texas' SEC Move: 'They Can’t Win the Big 12 Anyway'
The Head Ball Coach got in a jab at the Longhorns, but he said he understands why they'd make the jump.
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As one who had to write and speak weekly, I love your creative use of metaphors. I've never, ever heard this one...The 'Ole Ball Coach' can't stop himself.
He always gloried in being the one to throw a brick in the septic tank.
Since Spurrier retired Lane Kiffin has been throwing a few bricks...
Flash in the pan? The man is one of the fathers of this godforsaken shotgun only offense we’ve seen take over football in general. People thought he was crazy when he started, but he beat Alabama in the SEC championship game running almost exclusively shotgun years before anyone did.Spurrier … I know the name sounds familiar but dang I can’t think of why… oh yes didnt he used to coach the Redskins didn’t win there so he went to USC ( not that one the one in Columbia) and after promising SEC titles and not delivering walk off in mid season leaving someone else to pick up the pieces … that Steve Spurrier the old ball whatever … he is talking trash about not winning the SEC … oh ok (yes before you ask I know all about his good ole days at UF but my last memory was his loser face after Nebraska steam rolled him can someone say flash in the pan)
The ironic thing about the fun and gun offense, is that it started as exclusively under center, and with a lot of running mixed in. SOS just threw downfield more than most, and had more 3 and 4 WR sets than most. But it was not the run and shoot, nor what we see today with the RPO.Flash in the pan? The man is one of the fathers of this godforsaken shotgun only offense we’ve seen take over football in general. People thought he was crazy when he started, but he beat Alabama in the SEC championship game running almost exclusively shotgun years before anyone did.
Show me again where AtM, Mizzou, Colorado, and Neb effected OU's ability to win the conference before they left in 2012?BUT - they weren't near as dominant as folks like to remember, either. Okay, they won 7 titles in 11 years, which is great, but note their winning still went down with more competition.
Then Nebraska and Colorado and A/M and Mizzou all left the conference, WVA and TCU cam in...and OU began winning the Big 12 every year. They've won 7 of 9 since the contraction.
1) It's "affected," not "effected"Show me again where AtM, Mizzou, Colorado, and Neb effected OU's ability to win the conference before they left in 2012?
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Lou Holtz didn't win in the NFL.Spurrier … I know the name sounds familiar but dang I can’t think of why… oh yes didnt he used to coach the Redskins didn’t win there
Well, Spurrier won the SEC five times in six years so there's that.so he went to USC ( not that one the one in Columbia) and after promising SEC titles and not delivering walk off in mid season leaving someone else to pick up the pieces … that Steve Spurrier the old ball whatever … he is talking trash about not winning the SEC
Well, if your last memory was his loser face in January 1996, how did you remember he went to the NFL and left South Carolina?… oh ok (yes before you ask I know all about his good ole days at UF but my last memory was his loser face after Nebraska steam rolled him can someone say flash in the pan)
I wouldn't listen to anyone that names himself after a prima donna that will never be as good as Jordan.Lou Holtz didn't win in the NFL.
Neither did Nick Saban, although he wasn't as bad as remembered.
And Pete Carroll, well, it takes high football intelligence to do what he did at the one-yard line.
Well, Spurrier won the SEC five times in six years so there's that.
Well, if your last memory was his loser face in January 1996, how did you remember he went to the NFL and left South Carolina?
I now call SS "the Quitter." It's easy to coach when you are winning....never really liked him and like him even less now. How he got USC to pay him 4 million is beyond me...must have known some stuff!!!Selma tried to respond to the multi quote and couldn’t get it. So please forgive me leaving it out. The facts you presented are against me in this one but obviously my feelings for the “man” are seriously jaded. I am old school when it comes to being loud mouth and brash. I dislike people in sports that mouth off. I hated worse when they back it up…
during that period of the 1990’s when Spurrier was most successful he was very hard to take. Yes he might not have invented the shotgun but he certainly utilized it with great success at UF. However his success didn’t work for him beyond that. SC was never a threat even though they had good seasons for them. No SEC titles etc. The way he left the sport was like a spoiled child which truthfully he was and still is in my eyes.
But hey that is my opinion everyone certainly is welcome to theirs.
just glad he didn’t wind up at Alabama or I would have had to force myself to like him. LOL
This is eminently reasonable.Selma tried to respond to the multi quote and couldn’t get it. So please forgive me leaving it out. The facts you presented are against me in this one but obviously my feelings for the “man” are seriously jaded. I am old school when it comes to being loud mouth and brash. I dislike people in sports that mouth off. I hated worse when they back it up…
I'll agree he was one of those people - Barry Bonds is another one - who just for whatever reason it's like, "I have a choice to be a pompous jerk or a nice person, and I choose every time to be the jerk."during that period of the 1990’s when Spurrier was most successful he was very hard to take. Yes he might not have invented the shotgun but he certainly utilized it with great success at UF.
I would say Spurrier's problem was the evolution of the game surpassed his ability to adjust to it. What's bizarre is the same thing happened to Pat Dye at Auburn. You reach a point where the very weapons you've polished to win games - defense for Dye, high-powered offense for Spurrier - are taken by creative minds younger than you and rammed back down your throat in ways that you can even see the looks of surprise on the sideline that what used to work doesn't.However his success didn’t work for him beyond that. SC was never a threat even though they had good seasons for them. No SEC titles etc. The way he left the sport was like a spoiled child which truthfully he was and still is in my eyes.
But hey that is my opinion everyone certainly is welcome to theirs.
just glad he didn’t wind up at Alabama or I would have had to force myself to like him. LOL