Spurrier

Essobee said:
He showed his incredible coaching ability at the Libety Bowl when GT played Texas Tech. Helluva job with our substitute QB after Eddie was dismissed.



Great story. Thanks for sharing. :biggthumpup:
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We didn't play Texas Tech in the Liberty bowl, that was Iowa State. And Steve Sloan was Fulcher's OC that year. Spurrier became Pepper's qb coach in the late '70s.
 
augustabuzz said:
We didn't play Texas Tech in the Liberty bowl, that was Iowa State. And Steve Sloan was Fulcher's OC that year. Spurrier became Pepper's qb coach in the late '70s.
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Boy, am I evermore confused. My bad and thank you for the correction. I yield to your superior mind and memory. :biggthumpup:
 
Essobee said:
Boy, am I evermore confused. My bad and thank you for the correction. I yield to your superior mind and memory. :biggthumpup:
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Yeah, I think you confused parts of three different bowl games (1970, '72, '78). Actually, Steve was the qb coach in 1979. He and I went on a recruiting trip together to Augusta the day before the Air Force game that year. We visited Glenn Hills HS first to look at a guy named Prince. We then went to Westside to say hey to HC Coley Cassedy who was Mike Kelley's HS coach. Augusta was kinda thin that year so we went to the Augusta CC and played golf.

On the 12th hole (long par three), Steve hurt his back so we went to the Men's Grille to quench our thirst. An attorney friend of mine walked in and he and Steve started hugging each other. Turned out that Ben had done all the legal junk years before when Steve opened a "Steve Spurrier Health Spa" in Augusta. Those two then played the most cut-throat, big money game of backgammon I had ever seen.

We left there and went down to either Statesboro or Swainsboro (sorry, I'm old, I don't remember) to watch Barry Young in a game. He later went to ugag. On the way back, we went through Wrightsville and Steve told me some of the Herschel recruiting rumors he had heard.

I almost forgot. Going down to Augusta, we were talking about our offense. He said that if we were running the wishbone, he would rather have Pepper calling the plays than any other wishbone coach but he felt that with the offense we were running that year, he should have been calling the plays. I agreed with him whole-heartedly but Pepper didn't care about Steve's opinion and cared much less about mine.
 
Take me home tonight
I don't wanna let you till you see the light
Take me home tonight
 
golftango18yankeejuliet said:
Yeah, I think you confused parts of three different bowl games (1970, '72, '78). Actually, Steve was the qb coach in 1979.
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I definitely have seen too many games and now they are all running together in my tired old memory. I somehow had it in my feeble mind that we played against Donnie Anderson and Texas Tech in the Liberty Bowl and that Steve was the QB coach. Thanks to augustabuzz I realize that Steve was an assistant to Pepper and not Bill. I should be much more careful with my "memory facts" next time.

However, thanks for another great story about Steve.
 
stinger78 said:
Spurrier's a good coach, albeit an aging one, who simply doesn't have near the talent he needs to compete on a level field with most of the teams in his division. USC has been the graveyard of many a good coach.
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+1. For SC coaches he's actually done pretty well. I mean going into this season the program is under .500 for their history. Steve's problem is he picked the wrong SEC school to get back into college ball with.
 
ncjacket said:
+1. For SC coaches he's actually done pretty well. I mean going into this season the program is under .500 for their history. Steve's problem is he picked the wrong SEC school to get back into college ball with.
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Bill Curry is another person who loves and has a problem resisting a great challenge.
 
golftango18yankeejuliet said:
On the way back, we went through Wrightsville and Steve [Spurrier] told me some of the Herschel recruiting rumors he had heard.
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I have been told that Dooley secretly (and in violation of NCAA rules) flew to Herschel's hometown and watched Herschel train by pulling a gigantic tractor tire through a field like a mule. Did he mention anything like this?
 
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