The Athletic article: Five years later, Steve Spurrier wants to clear up a few things

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You need a subscription to read this, but it's classic Spurrier, pure gold! He's talking about why he left SC and what led to it:

Five years later, Steve Spurrier wants to clear up a few things

Five years later, Steve Spurrier wants to clear up a few...

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He began to worry then that he was losing the attention of his team. He would have more reason to worry soon.

“There were some things that happened that let me know for sure that I was not as respected as I normally was as the head coach,” he said. “I had one player call me bro.”

Spurrier declined to name the player, but it was a quarterback on the team.

“I was asking why he did something. It was after a game,” Spurrier recalled. “He actually tried to throw a fade and threw it about 10 yards out of bounds. He didn’t even look at the other side of the field and the play was wide open. I asked him, ‘Did you get the signal from the sideline?’ He said, ‘Yeah.’ I said, ‘Why didn’t you go to the 92 Hugo side? That was the play.’ He said, ‘I thought I could hit whatchacallit on the fade.’ I said, ‘You acted like you didn’t get the signal,’ and he said, ‘I ain’t stupid, bro.’ Of course, I said, ‘I didn’t say you were, bro.’ I started thinking, ‘I used to be called coach and now I’m being called bro.’”

Do you have anymore quotes from the article that you can post?
 

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You know that was Garcia.

Garcia is about as douchey as they get.
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lol you must be reading on your phone. That was not a large quote. One anecdote, barely more than a paragraph, about SOS's dismay over a player calling him bro. I want the whole article! So what if @oxrageous gets successfully sued for copyright infringement? He can pay off the judgment in Oxbucks.

Dunno, bro, but please don’t get Ox in anymore trouble than he already is after buying a beat up old Audi.
 

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You know that was Garcia.

Garcia is about as douchey as they get.

I watched his petulant punk act on the sideline vs. Armwood his senior year and was glad when he chose SC - or anywhere other than UF.

He was easily the most talented QB SOS had at SC. But his head wasn’t up to the task or pressures of major college QB. Sad waste.
 

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Do you have anymore quotes from the article that you can post?
Found this on Reddit:
“I want people to know that I didn’t quit or resign or whatever you want to call it because we were losing, it was because I had lost command of the team somehow or another so I blame myself for it,” Spurrier said. “It may have had to do with my age. I probably shouldn’t have said (in 2014) I’ve got two or three more years, shouldn’t have done that. The guys sensed, ‘He’s not going to be here much longer. We don’t have to listen to him.’ That might have been part of the reason.”
 

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Do you have anymore quotes from the article that you can post?
And this...
“I tell people I had sort of the ‘Urban Meyer disease.’ You know how when Urban has a loss, it just hits him? Well, it hit me,” Spurrier said. “I forgot the code to my dressing room door at the stadium.” He had to ask equipment manager Chris Matlock how to access the dressing room.
 

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Found this on Reddit:
“I want people to know that I didn’t quit or resign or whatever you want to call it because we were losing, it was because I had lost command of the team somehow or another so I blame myself for it,” Spurrier said. “It may have had to do with my age. I probably shouldn’t have said (in 2014) I’ve got two or three more years, shouldn’t have done that. The guys sensed, ‘He’s not going to be here much longer. We don’t have to listen to him.’ That might have been part of the reason.”

SOS always understood leadership principles.
 

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Sad. Aging and feeling like you're losing your efficacy in life is so sad.

Makes me feel even worse about the sh*tty way Mullen & Crew treated SOS in that clip from the HBO Special, when he popped into the meeting room to draw up a play and certain staffers were rolling their eyes and smirking and acting annoyed. They were making faces behind his back, but in view of the cameras. And they damn well knew it.

A Gator coach at any level who does not show the utmost respect for the Head Ball Coach at all times can go eat a big bowl of dicks as far as I'm concerned.
I did not see an HBO special and I'm glad I missed it. Very disappointing to hear this however.
 

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Sad. Aging and feeling like you're losing your efficacy in life is so sad.

Makes me feel even worse about the sh*tty way Mullen & Crew treated SOS in that clip from the HBO Special, when he popped into the meeting room to draw up a play and certain staffers were rolling their eyes and smirking and acting annoyed. They were making faces behind his back, but in view of the cameras. And they damn well knew it.

A Gator coach at any level who does not show the utmost respect for the Head Ball Coach at all times can go eat a big bowl of dicks as far as I'm concerned.
Did Mullen himself disrespect the Head Ball Coach?
 

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Respect seems to be demanded these days, but doesn't necessarily need to be earned. It is bad enough that many young people's most important adults don't teach or require respect, but a lot of teachers, coaches, and administrators look past it and write it off as an area that the kids just need to be forgiven due to their upbringings. When we allow this to go untaught and not required, we have just peeled away another layer of society that separates us from the savages. I understand what SOS felt.
 

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This is a Spurrier comment from the article that sounds familiar w/ our current coaching staff (talking about recruiting misses):

He knows there were recruiting mistakes at the end, too, although he defends his son Steve Jr., who was the recruiting coordinator from 2011-2015.

Some people think the recruiting coordinator has anything to do with recruiting. He doesn’t. The head coach is in charge of recruiting,” Spurrier said. “Steve Jr. was responsible for recruiting wide receivers and his area of the state and his area of the country. If you see the wide receivers who came through here, he did an excellent job, but he wasn’t in charge of D-linemen. If we didn’t sign DBs, it was the position coach and head coach’s fault. People think the recruiting coordinator is the same as the defensive coordinator, but he’s not. That’s not true at all. When you look at all the receivers he coached here, Steve did an excellent job for 10 years. I take the blame for how it went down. The recruiting did slip a little bit, no question.”
 

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Spurrier’s departure was laced with innuendo that the game had passed him by. That’s a crock. He got tired of swimming upstream at South Carolina, a swim that BTW led to him becoming the all-time winningest coach there.

As complicated as the game has become, it still comes down to getting people open and getting the ball to them. I’m pretty sure Steve never forgot how to do that.
 

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SOS Jr. ... apple rolled far from the tree.
 

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Okay, gotta come clean here. I looked and looked for video of that scene and couldn't find it on YouTube or anywhere, until I finally came across a clip of it that someone had Tweeted.

After re-watching it I guess the reactions to Spurrier coming in were not so bad after all. For some reason I remembered getting a vibe that they were just humoring and patronizing him, and in reality were annoyed by the interruption. But on second viewing, maybe not.

Mullen runs his hand across his face at the end, not his hair like I said before, and he does look a little fatigued or something but it's not necessarily annoyance with SOS.

I did get the part right about him drawing long lines on the whiteboard lol


Mullens starts by saying "just run the all go"

:lmao2: that is right, everyone run a 9!!!!!!!

And some of you still mock LTRaz for saying we run either screens, drags, or 9s.
 

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On third thought, there might have been a few more seconds in that scene on the actual show, where some of the staff may possibly have rolled their eyes or had condescending expressions after SOS walked out at the end. Because I definitely remember getting the impression that they were just patronizing him when I watched it on TV. Whereas it doesn't really appear to be that way in the Twitter clip.
I watched the show and never got that impression. I think you’re hallucinating.
 

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