Spurrier debuts on ESPN

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How do you guys think he did?

I thought he was horrible and just painful to watch. Every coach he mentioned is his (insert how long here)personal friend and every pick he made was based on the coach. He looked like a fish out of water. Fulmer was impressive compared to his performance.
 
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Bottom line is he is a quitter. I don't like the escape chute everyone is giving him that "he did it his way." Unless their was an illness or some serious reason for walking away now, then you gut it out like everyone else.

If he is back on TV next week, you watch, he will take his shots at UT.
 
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give_him 6 said:
Bottom line is he is a quitter. I don't like the escape chute everyone is giving him that "he did it his way." Unless their was an illness or some serious reason for walking away now, then you gut it out like everyone else.

If he is back on TV next week, you watch, he will take his shots at UT.
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Yeah,he has to be p*ssed off that Butch beat him two games in a row.
 
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give_him 6 said:
Bottom line is he is a quitter. I don't like the escape chute everyone is giving him that "he did it his way." Unless their was an illness or some serious reason for walking away now, then you gut it out like everyone else.

If he is back on TV next week, you watch, he will take his shots at UT.
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I agree, his ego could not stand what he saw coming and he did not want to go out with a sub 500 record. Steve Spurrier is all that matters to Steve Spurrier. No other reason not to finish the season and take it like a man. His legacy is a spoiled brat who will run up the score if he can then laugh about it, poorest loser every to coach college football. All these faults go unmentioned because he won football games.
 
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IPleadInsanity said:
How do you guys think he did?

I thought he was horrible and just painful to watch. Every coach he mentioned is his (insert how long here)personal friend and every pick he made was based on the coach. He looked like a fish out of water. Fulmer was impressive compared to his performance.
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Yeah but ESPN kept Lou Holtz on the air for 9 years and he speaks with a lisp and always allowed his personal feelings to influence his picks and 'analysis'. Did Lou ever pick against Notre Dame even under Charlie Weis? ESPN has also never asked Dick Vitale to tone down his love for Duke. This is what they want.
 
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volfanhill said:
He quit when he did in order to give the interim coach a shot at earning the head gig.
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I don't buy that excuse for a second. As much as South Carolina is struggling right now, everyone knows his replacement is not coming from within. Steve didn't want a 4-8 record by his name nor did he want to end his career with a 3 game losing streak to Tennessee. You are assuming that he considers others before himself and that is not how he rolls. Spurrier is an egocentric person who could not handle losing on this scale.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
I don't buy that excuse for a second. As much as South Carolina is struggling right now, everyone knows his replacement is not coming from within. Steve didn't want a 4-8 record by his name nor did he want to end his career with a 3 game losing streak to Tennessee. You are assuming that he considers others before himself and that is not how he rolls. Spurrier is an egocentric person who could not handle losing on this scale.
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If you actually think we had anything to do with his retirement then you are absolute lost homer. He has always been very loyal to his assistants. This was the only way one of his guys would get a shot. It's not complicated, surprising, or unheard of.
 
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volfanhill said:
If you actually think we had anything to do with his retirement then you are absolute lost homer. He has always been very loyal to his assistants. This was the only way one of his guys would get a shot. It's not complicated, surprising, or unheard of.
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That is an inaccurate take on his situation. South Carolina's AD Ray Tanner and their President asked him to remain through the end of the season and he refused. He knows the interim has no chance at being named the head coach on a permanent basis. The bottom line is that Spurrier is still going to be paid the remaining balance of his 2015 salary which is over $900K according to the SportingNews that will not be earned. South Carolina is showing more loyalty to him then he reciprocated by quitting in mid-season to go work for ESPN. If he cared about more than what's best for himself he would be with those players that he recruited and coached for the first 6 games of the season. It wasn't even 3 months ago that he claimed that he would coach for "another 5, 6 more years" during a press conference which he called.... and he is loyal to his assistants? Give me a break. He has been throwing DC's from Ron Zook to Bob Pruett to John Thompson under the bus his entire career.
 
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VolFootballnut said:
Nobody should quit on their players like that. He at least owed it to them to be there until the Clemson game.
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give_him 6 said:
Bottom line is he is a quitter. I don't like the escape chute everyone is giving him that "he did it his way." Unless their was an illness or some serious reason for walking away now, then you gut it out like everyone else.

If he is back on TV next week, you watch, he will take his shots at UT.
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I can understand his reasonings. He felt like he wasn't getting it done for the players/program. He felt like if he left now, two things could happen: (1) USCe gets more time to chase a replacement, (2) a chance that the interim coach earns the permanent position and the staff keeps their jobs.
 
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I thought he was fine on ESPN, he's always entertaining.

And I have no issue with his timing or reasoning, he has earned the right to leave when he so chooses.
 
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Orange_Crush said:
I can understand his reasonings. He felt like he wasn't getting it done for the players/program. He felt like if he left now, two things could happen: (1) USCe gets more time to chase a replacement, (2) a chance that the interim coach earns the permanent position and the staff keeps their jobs.
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Agree, and he also cited recruiting. Rival programs in the SEC and Clemson were using his age and the possibility that he may leave against SC in recruiting and their recruiting had definitely fallen off. By retiring now, he removed that card.
 
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DCompagnucci said:
Agree, and he also cited recruiting. Rival programs in the SEC and Clemson were using his age and the possibility that he may leave against SC in recruiting and their recruiting had definitely fallen off. By retiring now, he removed that card.
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This is ridiculous. There are just 6 freaking weeks left in the season. Does leaving 6 weeks early make any kind of difference in recruiting? South Carolina's next head coach likely has a job and won't leave it before the end of his team's season which means that they won't be able to hire a replacement any sooner than they would have if Spurrier had coached these last 6 games and since South Carolina will not gain any new commitments until they do have a new coach in place - no advantage is gained with this.

Spurrier already addressed his age and future in a hastily called press conference in August where he dismissed the notion that he would be retiring any time soon. In fact, he iterated that he would coach for another "5,6 years". If he had changed his mind, he could have announced that he would be stepping down effective at the end of the season and that would have addressed his future and allowed SC to begin their coaching search now but he didn't do that. The fact remains, that he is being paid to coach the remainder of the schedule ($900K) but isn't going to do it. There are no altruistic reasons for this. Spurrier abandoned players that he recruited and coached for half of a season because he couldn't handle a losing season which they now have no choice but to endure without him - unless they also want to be quitters.
 
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He explained on Gameday why he left when he did, and it made sense. Whether-or-not we buy it doesn't really matter. If you've taken it to a level that it personally angers you, it's because of his record against the Vols, and not because you give 2 craps about the players he left.

imo, of course
 
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salutethehill said:
He explained on Gameday why he left when he did, and it made sense. Whether-or-not we buy it doesn't really matter. If you've taken it to a level that it personally angers you, it's because of his record against the Vols, and not because you give 2 craps about the players he left.

imo, of course
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I am fine with his record vs the Vols the last two years and I'm fine with him showing himself to be the quitter that he is. It is ridiculous, however, to have Tennessee fans on a Tennessee message board making inane excuses for him and justifying his gutless move with inconsistent reasoning and nonsensical logic. He could have announced his retirement effective at the end of the season and coached these remaining games. Carolina will not recruit any better or have a replacement any faster because he is sitting them out. :hi:
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
I am fine with his record vs the Vols the last two years and I'm fine with him showing himself to be the quitter that he is. It is ridiculous, however, to have Tennessee fans on a Tennessee message board making inane excuses for him and justifying his gutless move with inconsistent reasoning and nonsensical logic. He could have announced his retirement effective at the end of the season and coached these remaining games. Carolina will not recruit any better or have a replacement any faster because he is sitting them out. :hi:
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Haters gonna hate
 
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salutethehill said:
Haters gonna hate
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Haters of Spurrier are going to hate Spurrier.

No argument there. However, if you look around the internet you will see that more sports columnists see it my way than yours. I have seen nobody defend him for this - not even Jesse Palmer (a former QB of his at Florida).
 
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