Hate to see 70 year old man be so negative in his later yrs

but Steve Spurrier is sounding so despondant..and even though he's our main in-state rivalries HC, I still repect the man for what he's done in his long college football career..like him or not..and what he did for a school which has had so many HC's fail over a 100 year period of basic futility.

We all know what he did for them..and what other National Championship HC's didn't (Dietzel & Holtz).

Beating teams they never dreamed of beating..like Clemson, Bammer, UGa, Michigan, UT, UF, Mo, etc.

Yep, he's down on his luck in Cola due to a lot of reasons..some his own & some not..and I do very much want to take him up on his earlier invite to come to their house (WillieB) in November..and beat the stuffings out of his Chickens..

But I don't cherish seeing a man that's in my century of life going out on such a sour note..and hope he can still have some victories (except against Clemson of course) before heading out to those great green pastures called Golf Courses.

GoTiGERS..keep Rocking EM!

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I still fail to see what major accomplishment he's had @scar

Oct 11, 2015, 7:48 PM

If his goal was to go to bed with ESPN then job well done. But even when the SEC east was total garbage and other teams were in the rebuilding phase he still couldn't bring home a conference title. Plus all he's really done is made more enemies and fueled a bitter gamecock fan base to be even mouthier group of imbeciles.

Now, they are Kentucky's little brother. A list of teams UK has beat in the last two years only includes UT Martin, Ohio, Louisiana, Vandy, ULM, and south carolina...TWICE!!!!!

Whether it's feuds with rival teams or folks in the media, Steve Spurrier has made a career of running his mouth and often embarrassing himself. His own family has publicly noted his less-than loving ways and was even booed once by his own daughter. Even lifelong friends have gone on record telling how's he's always been a bitter, cold-hearted, sour individual.

The yardbirds are a dismal 1-8 in their last 9 conference games. Years of mocking Tennessee and that whole, "Can't spell Citrus without UT," well that's coming back to haunt him. The Vols have won only 6 of the last 22 conference games. Two of those are W's over uscJr with a third coming this year. For years he's run his mouth and he deserves what he's getting.

His daughter: "Lisa and I had an unwritten rule when we were kids that we weren't going to do anything my dad could coach us in." Amy Spurrier.

When he got fired from the Redskins: "He didn't know what to do," said Jerri Spurrier. She also noted that being his wife is "like hanging on to the back of a train." Scott, his teenaged son said, "It wasn't a fun time, I can tell you that much."

His teenage friend Joe Biddle once said, "He was always a pain in the a-ss."

Former Miami coach Dennis Erickson once said, "Steve's a great coach but he just can't shut up."

As we all know, Steve is no fan of the media if they're being objective and maintaining their journalistic duties. If one says anything negative about him or anything truthful, he'll berate and belittle them while calling for their job. He frequently has asked fans and boosters to ban any writer or paper which prints something he doesn't like. "When Steve first got here he was outgoing, engaging, honest. He'd call me at home and say, 'Do you need some quotes?' He'd have the writers over his house for cookouts." per Robbie Andreu of the Gainesville Sun. But success on the football field changed that and he viewed journalists as his public relations puppets rather than newspaper employees. Prior to the 1995 Auburn-Florida game Andreu wrote an article about the game and noted the coaching edge was Auburn's. Spurrier was so enraged that he called Andreu's boss stating, "I can't believe you let anyone as dumb and stupid as Robbie Andreu cover our games." And it gets worse from here.

Steve also flew off the handle several times at Orlando Sentinel writer Larry Guest calling him a 'sad, little, fat man.' The two were former golfing buddy's but their relationship went sour and Guest opened up about Spurrier. "I got him into this country club he wanted to play at one day. After our playing, we went into the pro shop so Steve could buy a shirt. He held up the shirt to the kid behind the counter and said, 'What's the price?' The kid gave him a price, and Steve said, 'What's the price for the Head Ball Coach?' The kid gave him the same price. Steve was angry now. He said, 'What's the price for the Head Ball Coach of the Gators?' The kid apologized and said he couldn't do anything without his manager's permission. Steve threw the shirt at the kid. I was embarrassed."

So what led to the downfall of Spurrier and Guests relationship you ask? Here's Guests recollection of the events- "I wrote a little throwaway line in my notes column," Guest said. "It was nothing, really, not even much of a criticism of Spurrier. But it so infuriated Spurrier that he sent a letter to Florida's booster club, telling them that they should boycott the Orlando Sentinel until I was fired. When even the boosters ignored Spurrier's wrath, he tried to get me fired at the Sentinel by going to my boss. My boss just laughed at him. So Spurrier wouldn't talk to me. If I asked him a question at a press conference, he'd ignore me and call on another writer, who would ask him the same question. This infuriated Spurrier. So I began to refer to him as Darth Visor, which made him even more angry. All the writers who covered him experienced his wrath at some time. He sent a lot of us profanity-laced letters. We used to share them."

Sorry to disagree with ya Bill but I think he's just a mouthy, withered, has-been coach who is in the process of ruining his reputation; or whats left of it.

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