Steve Spurrier considers return to coaching
The college football legend misses working with quarterbacks, he says.
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Steve Spurrier admittedly misses his ball plays.
The College Football Hall of Famer told
The State newspaper if there's an opening at the prep level, he would be interested, but a return to major college football would be too heavy a burden.
“I don’t want to be a head coach. There’s too much involved with the head coach,” Spurrier said Saturday after he was honored at Duke. “If it’s a high school, or junior, well they don’t have junior highs anymore. Just high school, or somewhere there to coach quarterbacks and pitch the ball around.
"That might be something, something I want to do again. It would just have to be the right situation.”
Spurrier abruptly left South Carolina midseason in 2015 after a lackluster start and said the job, notably recruiting, became too time-consuming at his age. At the time, Spurrier said it was time for someone else to take over the Gamecocks.
“Major college ball, these guys, they work 11 months of the year now,” Spurrier told
The State. “It’s so different than it was, in the 90s, and even in the 2000s as far as the total amount of hours these guys work.”
Spurrier won 228 games over coaching stints at Duke, Florida and South Carolina, highlighted by six SEC title and a national championship (1996) with the Gators. He's the all-time winningest coach at two major SEC programs, a feather in the cap for one of the game's legends.