My original point was that spurrier on average had blowout wins and ran up the score and made statements on offense, has Nuss or Butters even remotely shown this in any game over the past two years? Don't worry I'll wait....
The fact that you took 3 games out of spurriers tenure here to try and discredit what I was saying as to prove some point that Butters was the right call as coach and Nuss as OC. So far, I'm still waiting to be impressed.
I agree entirely that Spurrier produced very effective offenses that were fun to watch. He lit up scoreboards and emptied stadiums. It was a great time to be a Gator.
I also agree that In his first two seasons Mac has not produced an offense that has inspired fear in an opponent. Our offense has been difficult to watch.
I was not trying to prove anything about Mac. I specifically said on numerous occasions that I was not comparing Mac to Spurrier.
It is common for people to bring up the blowout losses as a key complaint. It is not uncommon for people to compare it to Spurrier and say that these things would not have happened to him.
My point was that Spurrier too suffered blowout losses and close calls against inferior teams. I listed 3 games, but there are many more. When a coach becomes a legend people tend to only remember the many blowouts that went in his favor.
People were upset that Spurrier always managed to lose one game he should have won and it kept him out of the national championship picture. People complained that he couldn't beat Bowden. Then when Terry took over Auburn, Spurrier was losing to two Bowdens. The FSU and Auburn fans used to chant "can't beat a Bowden" at us. I remember Spurrier telling Vandy fans that if they booed him or the Gators he was going to run up the score. Then he took possibly one of our best offenses ever to Nashville and almost lost. That 1996 team had to rely on a defensive stop on the 47 to limp out of Nashville with a win. Vandy went 0-8 in the SEC that season. In the week leading up to the FSU game in 1992 Spurrier announced publically that his Gators didn't have a realistic chance at winning and he was going to pull his QB when it became apparent that we would lose. He pulled the starting QB in the 3rd quarter. He conceded defeat to FSU in the 3rd quarter. Imagine the uproar if any other Gators coach did that? Nowadays, most people don't even remember that Spurrier did it.
I don't believe it to be true, but there are still a lot of people today that believe that the Gators fans constant complaining was the reason Spurrier left. Spurrier made public comments about being unhappy with the criticism from the fans.
I'm not comparing the two, I'm simply pointing out that these things happen even to great coaches. Spurrier was criticized for it back then as well. Many of us felt it was unfair, but the pumper tag hadn't been coined yet.