Center Jeff Mitchell played for new South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier at Florida. Asked if he thought Georgia might pour it on when the Bulldogs host Spurrier's Gamecocks on Saturday, he laughed. I hope so, ... It's just fun I hope they do, because then you get to read about it, because he'll start running his mouth. Isn't he great I just love what comes out of his mouth. If you're not a Gamecock, maybe you hate him, but he says right what's on his mind. He comes right out with it.
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I'm sure I would have been welcomed back. That wouldn't have been any problem. But I honestly had no desire to come back when Spurrier was here. I don't have any problem with Spurrier he's who he is. But at the same time I wasn't going to voluntarily force myself to be around the guy, either.
Anywhere I go, no matter where he's at, I never had a chance to beat him before. This is my first time beating him, and it feels great my senior year to beat Spurrier.
I'll watch the game and root for Coach Spurrier every day of the week until the one day he plays Florida. I'm a Gator and I have no split allegiance when it comes to that. The University of Florida is my school and I hope they pound South Carolina when they play them.
By next year, Spurrier calculates that about half his team will be his players, and he believes he can bring in the talent necessary to be successful in the SEC. His recruiting coordinator is former Florida State quarterback Rick Stockstill. And he's wonderful, ... The best I've been around.
I've always said Spurrier is the best coach since Bryant, and I would have loved to have seen them go head to head. I think Spurrier would have had some success, at least more than anyone else did. I really think Spurrier would have driven Bryant crazy.
Not really, for two reasons. Number one, we looked at him and knew he was a very talented guy. We knew he could throw well and was very intelligent. And number two, when you're working with a coach who can make you understand the game and what it is you're trying to accomplish like Coach Spurrier can, you expect the quarterbacks to play well.
Spurrier is one of the best in the business, probably ever, ... I've learned so much just watching.
Steve Spurrier wasted no time, naming sophomore Blake Mitchell his starting QB just days into fall camp. According to Spurrier, the LaGrange native has proven that he's better prepared than redshirt freshman Antonio Heffner and true freshman Cade Thompson. Mitchell responded with an up-and-down camp, garnering praise from Spurrier one day and criticism the next. If we can't throw, we'll run up the middle and punt, ... And if our defense plays this well, if we can win 13-10, that's what we'll try to do to win.
Any dislike of Spurrier starts first with the winning, ... Not only that, on other occasions he might make comments. He might score more points here in Athens. Instead of trying to slow the scoring down, it seems like he never tried to slow the scoring down. That really rubs (people the wrong way). So it's a combination the winning and the other things.
While Spurrier said the choice of Mitchell was obvious, he wasn't sure of his rotation after that. Backups we don't know yet, ... We're trying a lot of guys right there.
But during the season Danny Wuerffel emerged as a worthy challenger. Spurrier seemingly enjoyed pitting Dean and Wuerffel against each other. If you made a mistake, you heard about it, ... He was very demanding.
There will be some things that are different that all college coaches go through when they get to the NFL. Spurrier comes to mind, and some of the adjustments he was forced to make and was reluctant to make at various times,'' Aikman said.
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.'