Florida Gators

[KeviNole]

I love how Matt Hayes said Urban was the best coach in America just a few years ago while at UF and now he's a scumbag liar who left UF "broken" now that he's not at UF.

But Hayes as a UF graduate is clearly unbiased.

[GBJs]

It's kind like recruitin'... If they sign with your school, they're better than sliced bread. If not, well...

BG/TC.

[The Gray Ghost]

If the TSN report is true, then we can be extra glad he's gone.

[SnoodGator]

Can't beat the HBC (from: http://espn.go.com/blog/ncfnation/post/ ... -gamecocks):

Spurrier, who turns 67 this month, couldn’t be happier. He’s even back to his old Head Ball Coach ways and saying whatever’s on his mind.

A few examples:

His thoughts on the Georgia-South Carolina game moving from the second week of the season to the sixth week in 2012.

“I don’t know. I sort of always liked playing them that second game because you could always count on them having two or three key players suspended.”

His thoughts on Nick Saban and what he’s done at Alabama.

“He’s got a nice little gig going, a little bit like (John) Calipari. He tells guys, ‘Hey, three years from now, you’re going to be a first-round pick and go.’ If he wants to be the greatest coach or one of the greatest coaches in college football, to me, he has to go somewhere besides Alabama and win, because they’ve always won there at Alabama.”

His thoughts on who’s the best coach in the SEC.

“I think it’s Saban. He’s considered the best. Les Miles is considered one of the best, when you look at number of wins. I believe you’re as good as your record. You are whatever your record is. Don’t give me any excuses or that you can’t win at this place.”

His thoughts on Lorenzo Ward taking over as the Gamecocks’ defensive coordinator.

“I hope we’ll be a little sounder than we have been. Obviously, Ellis (Johnson) did a heck of a job here. But at times, we’d have some coverage breakdowns. I don’t know if we were doing too much or this guy was making mistakes. We got a lot better during the course of the year after we simplified some things.”

His thoughts on Will Muschamp’s challenge at Florida.

“I told Will that he had one of the hardest jobs in America because of what’s happened down there prior to him coming. I don’t know that they have that much greater a team than most others in the SEC now. They’re pretty good. But it’s a tough job because of what Urban (Meyer) has done and prior history. Those fans are expecting 10 to 12 wins every year. Our fans are going to expect nine to 11, which is fair, and that’s good. I hope our players expect it, too.”

His thoughts on when he might retire.

“I used to think 60. When I was 55, I’d say four or five more years. When I got to 60, I’d say four or five more. And when I got to 65, I started saying three or four more. I’ll tell you what. We had a good-looking quarterback come through on Junior Day, and I wrote him a letter and said, ‘If you come here, you might extend my coaching career two or three years.’ ”

His thoughts on going out on his terms.

“Let me ask you this: How many coaches do you know that have retired in the last 10 or 15 years, and I’m talking honestly retiring, guys who had a good job, were winning and stepped aside on their own ? There aren’t many. They all got fired. Who would have ever thought that Bobby Bowden and Joe Paterno would have to get forced out? When I leave, they’re not going to pay me $4 million because I had another five years on the deal and got fired. I ain’t going to be one of those guys. I just have too much pride. That’s not going to happen.”

[10ac]

Good stuff.

[bluetick]

Just a straight-talkin' good ol' upper-EastTN native son.

Too bad we were still running the single wing in the early 60s.

[GBJs]

...If he wants to be the greatest coach or one of the greatest coaches in college football, to me, he has to go somewhere besides Alabama and win, because they’ve always won there at Alabama.”

LSU was Ole Miss with purple and gold uniforms when Saban arrived...just sayin'.

[KeviNole]

Bama wasn't exactly tearing it up when he took over either.

[The Gray Ghost]

Yes I still miss SOS.

RIP Dwayne Schintzius - didn't care for him when he played but he made his peace and died far too young.

[Jungle Rat]

He had the tallest mullet ever

[KeviNole]

I liked Mullet Man even as a Nole, played hard and intimidated his opponents. RIP Dwayne.

[GBJs]

Bama wasn't exactly tearing it up when he took over either.

Agreed.

Signed,

X-schizzle

[KeviNole]

His most shining moment for sure.

[GBJs]

Too bad we paid so much good money for a game that never happened.

[KeviNole]

fuckers

[GBJs]

Well, either way it was vacated...Y'all just beat us to it.

[Professor Tiger]

I always thought the term "Evil Genius" accurately described Spurrier. He was a jerk in his prime, but was always a superb coach.

I'll always remember those 88-0 scores his Gators used to run up on their weaker opponents, and his typical post-game comment: "Hey, it's Vandy's job to stop us. If they can't, that's their problem."

[The Gray Ghost]

Yeah I remember all those times he ran up scores with this first string players ..... well i think I remember ..... hard time finding an example ..... oh but folks keep repeating it so it must be true .....

[innocentbystander]

nyah, nyah, nyah-nyah, nyah!

We got Tim Boyle.

You didn't.

ha ha and fuck you

PS: stop recruiting New England. Stay in the swamp you Gators.

[aTm]

who?