By several, you mean one? The one with Brock Berlin and all those 4 and 5 star studs?L-boy;n296558 said:The whole thing about Spurrier and not recruiting is a bunch of crap. It may be true that he personally doesn't get as involved as some coaches, but his UF teams were loaded with talent, with several consensus #1 recruiting classes and tons of NFL talent. I imagine the talent he brought to South Carolina, while not quite to UF standards, was far higher than what South Carolina historically got.
The kids quit on him first.oxrageous;n296481 said:This is what I thought. Not very nice to the kids to quit in the middle of a season unless there's a legit reason.
I'd bet money it went something like this, AD Calls him in for meeting.oxrageous;n296495 said:Why would they force him out in the middle of the season? Was he raising hell or something?
Nah, bruh. The Vandycocks would keep SOS as long as he wanted to stay. I'm just surprised he wanted to stay as long as he did.lagator;n296609 said:I'd bet money it went something like this, AD Calls him in for meeting.
AD: Steve you know how much we appreciate what you've done for USC, but we want to let you know this is going to be your last year. We've decided to go in a different direction and will be starting the preliminary vetting process of a coaching search and didn't want to do it behind your back.
SOS: Go bleep yourself. You can start that search right now, I quit.
Assuming this is how it went down, it's still not too cool to leave the players high and dry, but after he put them on the map he probably felt like they owed him better.
Speaking of their players, didn't they just get a verbal from a top WR? :headscratch:
threatmatrix;n296561 said:When Spurrier announced he was leaving Florida didn't he still the headlines from some other big story that had just came out? Can't remember what it was but he stole the spotlight.
gardnerwebbgator;n296618 said:Tanner, for the great baseball coach he was, is a poor AD. Wouldn't shock me at all to see them completely botch the next hire. I sure hope Shannon or Nuss is not on their radar.