Spurrier retiring

BuzzLaw said:
Should we be worried about them stealing PJ?
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:lol:

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cyptomcat said:
I think Beamer will retire this season too.

The sooner these teams announce, the sooner they can start talking to other coaches.
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Depends on what they want to do. I'm not entirely sure that VT is a better job than Illinois or Maryland, if you're worrying about competing for a name.
 
ScionOfSouthland said:
Confirmed: Jon Gruden to South Carolina. Word is the selling point was 2 Hooter's within 20 minutes of campus.
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But his wife wasn't a cheerleader there!

(that was the reasoning given for Gruden and the UTK job before it went to Butch Jones. Or as Gary Danielson said during Saturday's broadcast, Bitch Jones.)
 
andrew said:
If he had retired last year? Definitely.

This year? Not so much.
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CPJ -> USCe and wins national championship with their talent and his offense

GT picks up some hotshot lightning in a bottle coach and wins national championship following year.

UGA is 0-4 in head to head match-ups, fires Richt, makes a bad hire and returns to being a bottom dweller.
 
Have a happy retirement, OBC. Always respected him for spanking the mutts and being one of us.

I heard he was showing signs of dementia at practices etc. It was from a USCe guy on Twitter so take it how you will.
 
Bradley shows his dwag, unleashes butthurt on Spurrier:

Here's the whole article so you don't have to click on it.

Five or six more years: That’s how long Steve Spurrier was telling recruits he’d be at South Carolina after it was suggested – by this correspondent, but not only by this correspondent – that he wouldn’t stick around much longer. He made it through six more games, four of them losses. Then he quit.

He’s not sticking around the way he’d told those recruits he would. He’s not even seeing out this season with the players he’d taken to camp in August. He’s gone-daddy-gone. He’s gone because he’s Steve Spurrier, a graceless winner and a terrible loser. He’s gone because, even as he was becoming one of college football’s best-ever coaches, his triumphs were about the greater glory of Stephen Orr Spurrier.

In his farewell comments Tuesday, he made it a point to say he’s not retiring. He’s resigning. He might, he said, go coach a high school team. He said this as he was quitting on the team he’d assembled.

I’m sorry. I know this will come off as mean-spirited. I know I’m supposed to be like everyone else in the media community and say, “I’m really going to miss the Head Ball Coach.” And I will, kind of. But even as we’re sifting through our Favorite Spurrier Moments, please note the common denominator: Everything was done with a smirk.

To wit: ESPN.com compiled a list of 16 memorable Spurrier quotes; of those, a dozen were jabs at someone or something. (Not one for self-deprecation, our Steve.) This wasn’t just his public persona. This was – and presumably is – Steve Spurrier.

Apologies for dropping names, but I visited with Vince and Barbara Dooley while in Athens on Monday. Spurrier’s name arose. We spoke of how wretched South Carolina was this season and wondered how much longer he’d be around. Not long, we agreed. Little did we know …

Vince, who actually likes Spurrier, told this story: He and Barbara were in New York several years ago for the College Football Hall of Fame banquet and were sitting with Mr. and Mrs. Spurrier. (Barbara describes Jerri Spurrier as “a saint,” FYI.) The four were having a pleasant conversation when Spurrier, apropos of nothing, said to Dooley, “I’m closing in on your SEC record.”

Dooley was then third, behind Bear Bryant and Johnny Vaught, in career conference victories; Spurrier would indeed pass him and Vaught. But that’s not the point. This is: What successful coach speaks that way to a peer? Did Mike Krzyzewski say to Bobby Knight, “I’m closing in on your record for wins?” Successful coaches tend to let winning speak for itself.

Only Spurrier would have said such a thing. It wasn’t enough for him to win: He had to keep reminding us of how much he’d won. Even after losing to Georgia 52-20 in Athens last month, he mentioned that South Carolina had still beaten the Bulldogs four of the past six years. You know, just in case anyone had forgotten.

Over the past few hours, I’ve seen Spurrier characterized as “a class act.” He wasn’t. He was a great coach, but he wasn’t a classy one. He ran up the score. He chortled at the loser’s expense. His press conferences were often described as “hilarious.” They weren’t. They were amusing, yes, but they weren’t fall-down-laughing funny in the way a Jim Valvano briefing could be. (That line about the Auburn library fire and the coloring books is older than Spurrier, who’s 70.)

What was striking about a Spurrier session wasn’t the quality of wit but the rarity of what we were seeing/hearing. For both better and worse, nobody else did what he did. I say again: What successful coach tweaks his vanquished opponents? Does Krzyzewski gig Wake Forest? And if your opponents were so dim-witted, doesn’t that diminish the achievement of vanquishing them? Why couldn’t a coach of such surpassing excellence be content with being surpassingly excellent?

It stood to reason that any coach – not that there are any quite like Spurrier – who flaunted winning would be hypersensitive to losing. Sure enough, the two times things didn’t go Spurrier’s way, he did what coaches are forever urging their players never to do: He quit. He bailed after two losing seasons with the Washington Redskins. Now he’s gone after six games, four of them losses. As long as he was winning and strutting, coaching was a gas. When it became clear he couldn’t win/strut, he’d head for the beach.

What I wrote/said over the summer was misconstrued, mostly by Spurrier himself. I never suggested he was too old to coach. I wondered if he could stand to lose big, and I was pretty sure I knew the answer. He conceded the point Tuesday, essentially saying he was leaving because losing was no fun. Imagine that.

It’s weird, but one of the few times I’ve ever been right just happened to be about the Evil Genius. I guess I should thank him for that. So here it is: Thanks, E.G. And I will miss you, kind of. But you did lose two of your final three games against Georgia.
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That's funny. When Bradley retires, hopefully the only thing written about him is "Piss on 'em".
 
Bradley is such a douche. I'm sure in the hypercompetitive world of sports, no coach or player has ever to jokingly mentioned to their peer, that they compete with, that they are aiming to surpass their records. That has definitely never happened.
 
What a sad and angry, bitter little man Bradley is. Those who can, do. Those who can't, big cry and write butthurt articles about those who've actually accomplished something.

I love how he touts his little visit with the Dooley's to validate himself.
 
In Bradley's hypocritical rant he bemoans Spurrier's lack of originality in skewering Auburn and their library fire but what gets Bradley's goat is Spurrier's complete originality in skewering the leghumpers with the quip about liking to play them in the first couple of games in the season. Bradley did show his true colors in this one.
 
Bradley made a pretty serious journalistic misjudgement. When you attack a legend, you wind up looking small, petty, jealous and, in the greater scheme of things, relatively insignificant.

The fact, is, Mark Bradley is angry because Spurrier called him out. All the other coaches just sit back and let Bradley take pot shots at them year after year. Not Spurrier - he called Bradley out in public the same way Bradley has been calling people out for years.

Guess what, Mark - that's why we love Spurrier and that's why we think you are a dickhead.
 
Spurrier was kind of a dick and he absolutely did quit on this team. The AD asked him to stay through the season and he declined, and the interim head coach didn't seem too happy about it either.

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andrew said:
Spurrier was kind of a dick and he absolutely did quit on this team. The AD asked him to stay through the season and he declined, and the interim head coach didn't seem too happy about it either.

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Boo Hoo. Winningest coach in USCe history. He didn't have to coach there. Could have gone ANYWHERE in the college ranks. He doesn't owe them squat.
 
andrew said:
Spurrier was kind of a dick and he absolutely did quit on this team. The AD asked him to stay through the season and he declined, and the interim head coach didn't seem too happy about it either.

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What Spurrier did for USCe far outweighs any negativity the past year. If anyone USCe fan is butthurt about it, I hope they remember the the pre-Spurrier years when they won:

6, 5, 5, 9, 8, 0, 1, 5, 6, 4, 7, 4, 5, 3 games (less than 5 per year).

He made a irrelevant school relevant.
 
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