OT: Spurrier in his prime was unlike anyone else

[18IsTheMan]

UF with a 25-point lead with 6 minutes to play leaves Wuerfel in the game.

Announcers: "Kresser is almost the starting quarterback; He's like 1A. I don't know what Steve's thinking, why he's not gonna put him (Kresser) in there. He's probably not gonna try and score; I mean, I don't know why he would throw the ball. He's got plenty of points. I'd be surprised if they throw it in the end zone."

Wuerfel throws a 20-yard TD pass for a 62-30 lead.



I don't get the folks who try to compare Kiffin to Spurrier. There's no comparison.

 

[PrestonyteParrot]

Kiffin is a Spurrier wanna be but there will never be another one

 

[18IsTheMan]

Kiffin is a Spurrier wanna be but there will never be another one

He obviously fancies himself Spurrier 2.0, but there can never be such a thing. He tries to channel his inner Spurrier with his barbs and such on Twitter, but try as he may, he'll never have the swagger SOS had.

The main reason, though, is that SOS completely revolutionized college football offenses, consequently forcing a total change in how college football plays defense. Kiffin may be fantastic within the current system, but he's never revolutionizing the game.

 

[Go Gamecocks]

...that SOS completely revolutionized college football offenses, consequently forcing a total change in how college football plays defense.

Including the absolute necessity to recruit speed. FSU was one team back in those days that had those kinds of athletes...everyone else was playing catch-up.
One of the reasons Steve wasn't as successful here had to do with the kinds of defenses he was facing v. the '90's (victim of his own success).

 

[kidrobinski]

My wife and I attended a Florida game at W-B when Scott I think was still coach here. It was a night game, cold and wet, and they were smoking us as usual, high score to low score. We left start of fourth quarter and went to a restaurant, had a tv with the game on. Florida was up high 50 somethings to diddly and had a fourth down in field goal range with like three minutes left. Spurrier brings out the field goal unit; they fake the field goal and score to put the final in the sixties. My father and I often discussed how awesome it would be to have a Sourrier as coach and how it would never happen, but he died in 2002 before we hired him. Probably my life’s top regret.

 

[18IsTheMan]

My wife and I attended a Florida game at W-B when Scott I think was still coach here. It was a night game, cold and wet, and they were smoking us as usual, high score to low score. We left start of fourth quarter and went to a restaurant, had a tv with the game on. Florida was up high 50 somethings to diddly and had a fourth down in field goal range with like three minutes left. Spurrier brings out the field goal unit; they fake the field goal and score to put the final in the sixties. My father and I often discussed how awesome it would be to have a Sourrier as coach and how it would never happen, but he died in 2002 before we hired him. Probably my life’s top regret.

Sounds like the 1995 game. 63-7 Gators. We lived in Chattanooga, TN at the time but my family was back in town for an event at a church with some old friends. One of the families had two tickets to the game and offered them to us. My brother and I went, and I was pretty confident Taneyhill was gonna pull off some magic. Our seats were in the mid upper deck. It was chilly, rainy and windy. Game was basically over at kickoff. I stayed until the bitter end, much to my brother's annoyance. One of the papers had a picture of taillights leaving the stadium at halftime. I think UF scored 40-something points by halftime.

Edit: Yeah, here's a game summary of that one (if it's the same one). That was back when UF could basically do whatever they wanted to do against us. We finally scored a TD to make 35-7 with 52 seconds left in the half. UF moved 65 yards in 3 plays to make 42-7 at the half

Florida 63, South Carolina 7 - UPI Archives

Danny Wuerffel threw five touchdown passes in the first half Saturday night, putting No. 3 Florida in the Southeastern Conference championship game with a...

www.upi.com

 

[gamecock stock]

Think about this: we did not have Spurrier in his prime. And we still finished among the nation's Top 10 teams, 3 times, including number 4 in the nation. The potential to produce a football program that is nationally relevant exists at the University of South Carolina.

 

[JohnnySolo]

When I was a young receiver I always wanted to play for Spurrier. Coming from a HS and an era of HS that mainly ran the ball I was excited to see someone sling it around a bit. Hated playing against him as a fan, but wanted to play for him.

 

[Go Gamecocks]

Think about this: we did not have Spurrier in his prime.

One thing Steve struggled with at UF, was other schools make runs on his asst. coaches.

 

[Lurker123]

He obviously fancies himself Spurrier 2.0, but there can never be such a thing. He tries to channel his inner Spurrier with his barbs and such on Twitter, but try as he may, he'll never have the swagger SOS had.

The main reason, though, is that SOS completely revolutionized college football offenses, consequently forcing a total change in how college football plays defense. Kiffin may be fantastic within the current system, but he's never revolutionizing the game.

He does fancy himself Spurrier 2.0. And yeah, he is not thebinnovator Steve was, hes just very good.

I think of it this way, whi in college football would you call Spurrier 2.0? Anyone closer to the title than Kiffin, who is admittedly not close?

 

[Uscg1984]

I think of it this way, who in college football would you call Spurrier 2.0? Anyone closer to the title than Kiffin, who is admittedly not close?

There isn't one. He was one of a kind. There will always be offensive innovators, I suppose, but I don't see any coach today who has as much fun doing it as Spurrier did in his prime.

 

[rockingamecock]

Spurrier's amazing 3-year run was like nothing we've seen before or since......and may never see again at USC.

 

[18IsTheMan]

There isn't one. He was one of a kind. There will always be offensive innovators, I suppose, but I don't see any coach today who has as much fun doing it as Spurrier did in his prime.

That was my thought as well. If you watch video above in the OP, you see that grin he had on his face when UF scored that last TD to make it 62-30. That is Spurrier in a nutshell.