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SPURRIER IS TEMPERAMENTAL, PT. 1283512

Steve Spurrier has threatened everything short of taking back that beautiful shiny ring he bought you for the anniversary if you don't let his recruits into school. Spurrier's enraged over South Carolina rejecting two of his recruits who met NCAA standards but didn't pass SC's internal requirements. (Clemson grads and others, fire away with the academic requirements jokes.)

The Fanhouse jokingly suggests Spurrier might just flee to Duke, which remains a joke and a joke only--it's cruel to do that to Duke fans, and they're swimming in cruelty as is. Spurrier's just prone to threats and drama, and thinks he's in a position to roll shit downhill rather than take it. It's gambiting on his part, since he's in exactly the spot where he wants to be at South Carolina as the savior of the program and perpetual underdog. He's also got a prior relationship with Andrew Sorensen, the president in Columbia, and is in striking distance of Augusta at all times. This matters more than you can possibly know.

Plus, he's fascinated with the pigeon control system at Brice-Williams stadium--nay, enthralled.

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wonder how many takes that took. i’ve said it before, and i’ll say it again, that guy could read the phone book and i’d be in stitches.

by gerry dorsey on Aug 6, 2007 4:47 PM EDT reply actions  

“I told you those pigeons would GO! Click-Clack!”
-Steve Spurrier

by Class of 2007 on Aug 6, 2007 4:55 PM EDT reply actions  

instead of the garbled “aight here we go” he coulda given a nice “Click Clack” would that be too much to ask?

by Brian on Aug 6, 2007 5:05 PM EDT reply actions  

Nick Saban does not have time for pigeon shit

by Dave on Aug 6, 2007 5:08 PM EDT reply actions  

Man, TOBC is starting to look like a Spaceballs-era Dick Van Patten.

by Oops Pow Surprise on Aug 6, 2007 5:40 PM EDT reply actions  

I love you, Steve Spurrier.

by Big Jon on Aug 6, 2007 5:47 PM EDT reply actions  

Yeah I told you he could really go!

by The Last Dragon on Aug 6, 2007 5:51 PM EDT reply actions  

Y’all know this is bs, right? OBC signed 31 recruits knowing full well that was too many—simply expecting a few to “not make it” as he was quoted as saying. Then when everybody did make it, the two lowest rated players at the two most overrecruited positions were conveniently denied admission. Say what you want about Spurrier, but that’s pretty fucking slimey.

this article is pretty good: http://www.charleston.net/news/2007/aug/06/spurrier_upset_admissions_process12331/

by goheels on Aug 6, 2007 5:51 PM EDT reply actions  

the combination to his air shield is….1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

by gerry dorsey on Aug 6, 2007 5:51 PM EDT reply actions  

  1. — This looks pretty much like it’s the case. Albeit based on some hearsay on the HS coach’s part about knowing grades and so forth, but I can def. see this as being realistic. I’ve never even HEARD of a gray shirt. I thought “gray shirts” was the team name of Hargrave mil academy :P

by Brian on Aug 6, 2007 6:02 PM EDT reply actions  

8…

We have 2 prepping and one left, leaving us 28. 28 is the number we could have brought in with ZERO GREYSHIRTING. That means both these kids COULD HAVE COME IN ON SCHOLARSHIP THIS YEAR. i.e. no oversigning.

In addition, on the lesser publicized front, the university has done this to TWO basketball players also in the past year. In case you didn’t realize, TWO basketball players in classes of 4 or 5 is a very big deal and blow to the team. Do you think our punkass basketball team was oversigning badasses? Hell no they weren’t, we need all the help we can get in basketball. So to say this is a way for Spurrier to deal with his oversigning is ridiculous. Ask the Florida fans, SOS is brutally honest.

by cockengr on Aug 6, 2007 6:10 PM EDT reply actions  

#8,

By greyshirting the scholarship can be awarded to the player and count against the following recruiting year’s total, in this case the 2008 signing class. The greyshirted player goes to school and practices with the team, but the only trick is that they have to pay their own way for the first year. Assuming the player in question is going to redshirt anyway, it’s an end-around on scholarship limitations while acclamating the player to the program. It can often work in favor of the player as he still has a redshirt year in case of injury, a backed up depth chart, or whatever.

Other schools do this too, but usually they tell the players ahead of time that they will have to greyshirt. Safety Ryan McFoy was recruited by that other USC in the 2006 class, but they got a swarm of DB commitments ahead of him. They were still willing to let McFoy join the Trojans with the condition that he greyshirt the first year, so he opted out and signed a full scholarship with Arizona State.

by Big Jon on Aug 6, 2007 6:26 PM EDT reply actions  

9: That’s the combination to my luggage!

by BuckeyeDan on Aug 6, 2007 6:26 PM EDT reply actions  

So when SpurCock gets his way he’ll have Gang-du on the Special Olympics team, the football team, AND pigeon duty? Brilliant!

by Allahver Fist on Aug 6, 2007 7:12 PM EDT reply actions  

As he truly is Super Chicken, he knew the job was dangerous when he took it.

76 degrees in Jackson Hole sure beats 100 in Charlotte tomorrow.

by yoyofutbawl on Aug 6, 2007 7:25 PM EDT reply actions  

It’s pretty clear that all this is just an attempt to get the Rutgers people intrigued enough that he is unhappy that they will invite him up to play a round at Pine Valley, generally regarded as the finest golf course in the US and even the world, and one of the very few courses that Augusta National looks up at on ranking lists. Of course, J.R. would piss on that course too, but as an avid golf fanatic this is certainly his end game, so look for more bitching until the R invite him up for a weekend of golf just to feel him out.

Swindle- I know you hate golf but there is an especially deep bunker on the 10th at Pine Valley that the members have named “the devil’s asshole” – you have to love that at least.

by Kanu on Aug 6, 2007 7:32 PM EDT reply actions  

Speaking of Duke, big time fulmer cup points await them in the case of their best lb.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2962350
make fat phil proud dukies

by dizzle on Aug 6, 2007 8:16 PM EDT reply actions  

by the way this is the ex of my ex. truly enjoyable

by dizzle on Aug 6, 2007 8:24 PM EDT reply actions  

Can’t he find a recruit that can spell citrus?

by angryeer on Aug 6, 2007 10:00 PM EDT reply actions  

He won’t leave, the golfin’ is too good.

by Lloyds Apple on Aug 7, 2007 12:39 AM EDT reply actions  

“Yeah, this is Head Ball Coach. I told you those pigeons would really go with hawk noises. SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!. Yeah, click clack”

by Scalz1 on Aug 7, 2007 8:46 AM EDT reply actions  

A UNC fan talking about football. That is just sooooo adorable.

by Continuation T. Arranger on Aug 7, 2007 9:17 AM EDT reply actions  

eric y: aren’t we glad Jackson’s Hole has some pleasant weather a few days a year?
jay whitlow: I’m going tomorrow! Hopefully, it won’t change in the next couple of days.
eric y: yeah, with temps in the 70s maybe the rest of the snow will melt.
jay whitlow: what does that have to do with football?
eric y: everything! When you go to Charlotte in November for a game be sure and check out the weather in Jackson’s Hole before you go.
eric y and
jay whitlow

by eric y on Aug 7, 2007 9:36 AM EDT reply actions  

Dukie fb player would like to buy a vowel, Pat.

by Raider Red on Aug 7, 2007 10:53 AM EDT reply actions  

#22

“This Head Ball Coach”

remember, he t0tal3y PWNT joor l4ngwdge

by omfdg on Aug 7, 2007 12:43 PM EDT reply actions  

Eh, wouldn’t that be Wiliams-Brice Stadium? You should know, because the Gators will be totally pwn3d there this year.

OK, maybe not. But you will, Swindle, when I attack you with my handle of Cap’n Morgan’s and flask full o’ Goldschlager.

by Newspaper Hack on Aug 9, 2007 10:34 AM EDT reply actions  

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