His classic one-liner in April was that he'd prefer to play Georgia that second week of the season "because you could always count on them having two or three key players suspended. To others, he's a breath of fresh air, and unlike a lot of coaches who are programmed to the point of being robotic, Spurrier will say whatever's on his mind.
Everything is life or death," Spurrier said. I can't ever remember being upset about something coach Phillip Fulmer said or anybody else. The reality is that Spurrier and Fulmer have always stayed on good terms despite Spurrier's flurry of digs at Tennessee through the years. In fact, Spurrier has a picture of the two of them together on a bookcase in his office at Williams-Brice Stadium.
Fulmer's retort has always been, "Steve's a pretty good guy. Dave Hart, the athletic director at Tennessee and formerly the athletic director at Florida State, once fumed that Spurrier needed to be spanked, put to bed and then everybody could hope he "wakes up all grown up. Those comments came in , which was Spurrier's last season at Florida.
Spurrier had publicly accused Florida State of dirty play and intentionally trying to hurt Florida players during the Gators' win over the rival Seminoles. One of his most famous barbs was the "Free Shoes U" line directed at the Seminoles in reference to their Foot Locker scandal in , a shopping spree for Florida State players that was paid for by agents. Spurrier, who likes dishonesty about as much as he likes losing, can't take credit for that epic dig, though.
That wasn't mine. I got it from somebody else. That one's right up there with the "You can't spell Citrus without UT" when Florida was beating Tennessee every year in the s, relegating the Vols to the Citrus Bowl. And when Peyton Manning announced that he would return for his senior season at Tennessee in , Spurrier's response was that Manning was coming back to become the first three-time MVP of the Citrus Bowl.
We screwed around and lost to Georgia. Spurrier was against the Bulldogs as a player at Florida from , including a nauseating loss during his senior season when the Gators were ranked No. So it's no coincidence that Spurrier ran the score up on the Bulldogs every chance he got when he returned to Florida as head coach. The feeling is mutual. Good luck in getting anybody at Georgia to say anything remotely nice about the Head Ball Coach. Sometimes it's fun to think back to when he was nothing but the country's most famous backup college QB.
See our full interview with Tebow here. Alabama was We were We were trying to win more than we lost and go to a bowl game. That was just about our goal for our team that year. Got off to such a good start at And we all sit around here, thinking we had to beat Tennessee and Georgia all the time, but we beat Alabama five of those six years.
They brought us back to commemorate the first title game 25 years ago. But Alabama was the team five of the six times we had to beat for the championship. And somehow we found a way to play really well against those guys. This story's author well, Godfrey, not Spurrier and Podcast Ain't Played Nobody co-host Bill Connelly talk the season's madness and the year's actual best teams:.
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How can John Currie bring the Tennessee fan base back together? Tee Martin may not have head coaching experience that many would prefer, but there is absolutely no doubt that the hire of a former national championship winning quarterback who knows the culture and standards of Knoxville would excite fans more so than the hire of a Dave Doeren or a Greg Schiano. Steve Spurrier, of course, was a Heisman trophy winning quarterback at Florida from and returned to his alma mater in In the twelve years he lead the Florida program, they won a national championship and six SEC titles.
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