HERR SPURRIER ASKS YOU TO EXPLAIN YOURSELF

Damn! You guys love this guy? Everybody knows you take subordinates behind the wood shed for spankings. That behavior would not endear me to my boss even if he did it to another coworker. I dont think that arragant prick realizes this isnt Florida and his assholery could actually lose him good people.

“DEAR LORD!!! My secondary was very….. badly…… burned…. Can someone call 911? Hello? Yes, they survived the second explosion but they are in very poor shape GUN BLAST You shot me! you shot me in the arm! Please call the…GUN BLAST”

Bush league.

Coaching? Gave it up years ago, but the golfing is great in S. Carolina.

Way to not take blame where it is due. But you do still take credit for things, right Steve?

Endless entertainment. Fantastic stuff. Now, if only the Ol’ Ball Coach’s subordinates would learn from Stevie’s lead by example mentality. Next week, when Spurrier summons the D-coordinator into the briefing, Cooper should then summon the defensive captain. The captain should then in-turn summon the players involved in the play in question and start grilling them in front of the press.

Maybe USC would rather have [NAME REDACTED] up there making excuses.

Some people over on gatorcountry are saying SOS was ringside for WWE Raw last night.

I think he’s headed for insanity of Roman Emperor proportions. I will not be surprised to here he likes to swim in the waterhazards of his favorite golf course on his Myrtle Beach hideaway while high school quarterbacks and receivers, that he calls his minnows, swim around him.

SOS can’t answer ?‘s on the D b/c he’s never called a D play in his life

I know you guys revere the Ol’ Ballcoach, but I’m with tzubear — I think Spurrier is slowly losing it. After the Georgia game, he conjured up fanciful tales about refs calling him up to confess dozens of supposedly blown holding calls. After the Auburn loss, he ordered the fans not to applaud the team’s effort in close losses (and really, if you can’t take solace in moral victories, what does South Carolina have left?). Now he’s calling out his own coaches in front of the press (remember how much venom [NAME ALSO REDACTED] took for that last year?).

Spurrier is presenting all the symptoms of someone who is slowly realizing he doesn’t want to be SC’s coach after all. I bet if he had to do it all over again, he would’ve canned the “Check your trophy case” riposte to Bernie Machen and gone ahead with an actual interview at UF back in 2004. At the very least, he would’ve said thanks but no thanks to the SC job and stayed on the links.

he’s proven he’s a college football genius. after his 12 years at UF and last year at USC (east campus), i think he’s realized that he can do whatever the fuck he wanted. if i were a gamecock, i’d be okay, because he’s one of the best coaches ever. that gives him some leeway.

Adam, that best coach ever status hasn’t served South Carolina very well, at least not yet. Even Holtz could almost lose to Kentucky.

So the rest of the world is now figuring out what we knew a long time ago in Georgia. Steve Spurrier is just a nasty man. No surprise there. Maybe he is a good coach but come on! He’s going to be staffless if he keeps up stunts like that!

Madden Football Central: Madden Football

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/sports/colleges/university_of_south_carolina/15719981.htm

For what it’s worth, Spurrier has apologized. That being said, while it definitley wasn’t a classy move, the defense did need to be called out after almost giving up the lead in that game. As a Gamecock fan, I’ve agreed with just about all the things that Spurrier has said this year, save the weird mention of phantom holding calls vs. Georgia.

This is football, if you are sensitive go coach gymnastics. Coaching under Spurrier has always been a springboard to bigger and better things, he will have no shortage of willing coaches for that reason alone.

What they don’t tell you is that Steve has the coverage-blowing players fight to the death in a dirt-floor arena.

Im surprised Jessie Jackson hasn’t hopped the first NAACP airplane to Columbus to protest.

This story makes me warm and fuzzy inside.
I like my ballcoaches with a bit of the red ass.

Has he busted out the passive/aggressive hall of fame line yet?

‘Our (insert position here that was responsible for especially egregious mistake) didn’t do so great today. We just have to do a better job of coaching ’em up."

I always loved that one.

Also…..this is probably Spurrier’s current favorite movie and scene….

http://john.savage.free.fr/steve/nickroulette22.jpg

I think all press conferences should include the head coach, OC, and DC. Why should the head coach take the heat for a bad defensive play call by the DC? These coordinators all want to be head coaches some day, right? Let them start facing the media now.

Could have been worse – he could have acted like Nick Saban

I actually thought it might be a good exercise for assistant coaches – I’d love to see JayPa explain the development of A Morreli (but last week I really wanted to ask mr. bradley what the hooha he was doing; and riddle me this, PSU’s linebacker coach also instructs the special teams – how is this glaring disparity in execution possible?) – and I’m sure that some seminoles out there would like to see baby bowden on the hot seat occasionally.

Not that the head coach isn’t ultimately responsible for everything that happens in and around the team – maybe sos was just fed up.

really, joe? i thought what he was able to do last year was pretty darn impressive. the collapse against mizzou wasn’t too great, but overall, i thought he did a lot with the pieces he had.

BeatAuburn(#15)- Swimming with sharks the CFB addition?

Paco(#21)- letting your people brave the press is different than leading the public stoning. While answering tough questions from the public is uncomfortable, at least you can bantr with the press on a (relatively) equal footing. The arragent fuck basically invited the press in so the publis could view his ass chewing. Unacceptable behavior that is beyond hubris. In fact his apology may be a result of the AD disussing the incident BEHIND CLOSED DOORS.

spurrier is mentally ill. and tacky as hell. especially coming to usc from the unemployment line. cooper handled himself well and spurrier reverted to the typical rockin-in-the-corner-holding-his-sides-suckin-his-thumb demeanor. slapping syvelle’s hand away at the end of the game. does he know what newton does for his team? or is somewhere in the dementia still hopes for mitchell to be the next wuerffel?

Please. I was all excited for some crazy sh-t after reading all these comments… then I watched the video. Talk about expectations not matching reality.

Summary:
“Hey, that stunk a little, there, coach.”
“Yep, we stunk it up there once, coach.”
“‘Kay. Y’all got any other questions?”

Spurrier is The Man Dept.:

People here acusing Spurrier of losing it this year? He lost eons ago and that is what makes him The Man.

Every other Tom, Dick or Harry Coach out there has the same standard BS answers for everything.

It takes a real man to state what is on his mind, without sugar coating it.

I bet when the AD or President of South Carolina show up at his office, he first makes them do 20 push ups (girl-style on their knees if they can not do them straight up, since they are old and fat) just to show them who is The Boss.

“Instead, take a gun in a manila envelope. That gets everyone’s attention.”

Wow… a bit macabre. Hey man, not a nice shot.

If Spurrier is really losing it, USC will become a coaching black hole as the rumors of the mind-sapping tainted water-fountain in the coaches office take off.

They probably shouldn’t have made it look like a Cock.

The Budd Dwyer school of media and public relations. I think Mike Freeman got a degree from there.

I’ve known Steve since ‘66 , and I’ve always been one of his staunchest supporters. And yes, he’s one of the most honest persons I’ve ever met. Yet, when he did this, I was shocked.

Steve has always assumed the responsibity for losses, whether they were his fault or not. It was always, “I didn’t do a very good coaching job.” To my knowledge, he has never before called out one of his coaches publicly, much less in his post-game press conference.

It does appear to me that in the past few years, going all the way back to his last couple of seasons as the Gator HBC, Steve has become much less flexible and much more irritable. I really became concerned about the way that he browbeat his Qbs after Danny graduated. Then it seemed that he became more and more short tempered. Now, he’s become downright crotchety.

I’ll say here exactly what I would say to Steve’s face, “Shame on you.”

So, you’re asking a coach who is required to attend these silly press conferences to put his emotion aside, fake a response (not the first thing that comes to his mind- but whatever the public wants to hear) and then expect you to think he’s being genuine?

Spurrier has tried all summer to motivate his players to get to the un-required weight and skills work-outs, but many didn’t. He’s tried to get them to show more winning instinct on the field, but most haven’t. He’s tried to get fans to expect to win, want to win, and be damn pissed if the Cocks don’t win- yet you want him to sugar coat his feelings? That’s bullshit. Giving up that 63-yd pass play to Kentucky was bush league. Cheering your SEC team if they played well against Auburn even though they lost is Bush league. Those damn schollies aren’t there for any other reason except to win. Period. Not for sportsmanship, not because the school wants that kid to get a degree but not play well, and certainly not just to play like a JV player on an 8-man team (which by my counting was about how many USC players were on the field at the end of the game after turning it over on downs). F that. You wan’t sugar coating, that’s fine. Me, I take a coach ripping ass for the world to see because the world had to watch a pathetic let-down win by the Cocks.

May I just say that I knew Ron Cooper. I will say that this situation could not have happened to a better guy. Who cares about SOS? Cooper ran 4 football PROGRAMS into the ground in 10 years. Eastern Mich., Louisville, NE Alabama/Miss. Ivy Tech and finally as defencive coordinator of Miss St. he helped run Jackie Sherrill off to castration heaven. He is the {NAME RETRACTED} for my program. I’m guessing he popped off to Steve in the coaches office and Stevie decided “Screw you dude, Hang me…Hang you!” Secong place gets a set of steak knives and Sweet Lou Holtz is nopt here to pick you up Ronnie.

Sorry all. Angry typing leads to misspelling.

Maybe the ol’ ball coach went a little too far in berating his defensive backs coach. But who am i kidding, I love a coach that doesn’t sugar coat things and demands better from his team. I know the gamecocks are playing a ton of true freshman on defense, but they should be better coached. They looked as if they had no clue what to do when they ran on the field with UK having just 20 seconds and no time outs. My guess is you will see a better coached defense next game. Spurrier holds coaches accountable, so if there is no improvement, heads will roll. Love him or hate him, spurrier has this program headed in the right direction.