I found out it was a lot more fun hanging around the SEC than that other league I hung around for a couple years.
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Oh, that's a secret, a little secret, ... Nah, we're breaking the balls in. They're all brand new and slippery as can be. Like a watermelon seed when they bring them out of the box. So you try rubbing them in the dirt, the grass, put a little sweat on theSteve Spurrier
But after embarrassing himself with the Redskins in a way that Lou Holtz once embarrassed himself with the Jets, Spurrier decided he couldn't play bogey golf for the rest of his adult life. I told my wife, 'I need to go coach somewhere,' ... Then this opportunity popped up and she said, 'Why there' I said, 'Well, first of all, it's in the South. It's in the SEC. I get to play against the same guys I've been playing for 12 years. Everything is there to be successful and yet they have never quite done it.'
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Patrick's foot was bothering him again Monday. In Sunday's game, he sort of got his head pushed into the ground in the first quarter and that's the reason he had to come out. But his foot problem is something that's really bothering him to the point where he cannot practice during the week. That hurts him also, not being able to take all the snaps in practice.
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We have our quarterback whisper. I found that's a lot easier on the ears, ... That way nobody can hear anything but the center. So he just whispers to the center, we snap it and run plays that way.
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He needs to get physically a little bigger and stronger. I'm afraid if he gets hit real hard we may be carrying him off the field.
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We've got a support system that gives our players a wonderful opportunity to graduate. If they go to class and give good effort, they can graduate from this school, and I believe that's important when you go out recruiting.
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