Topic: Ol Ball Coach

[Indndawg]

Has/Will History prove that Spurrier is a decent recruiter but at best, a mediocre coach. NFL Network listed him as one of the top 10 coaches that should have stayed in college. The knock on him.............lazy

 

[GloryDawg]

1. His membership to Augusta National for being the head football coach at South Carolina. (Best Perk ever by the way.)
2. To build a program to hand over to his son when he retired.

It is hard to win at South Carolina. Really don't know why. It is in a large city. Great facilities. The only knock to the school would be it's location in the Down Town area. The campus is not all that eye pleasing. I have stood on the new baseball field.Out standing. The football field.Out standing.The Colonial Center is amazing. Been in their weight room.It's OKand the George Rodgers Room wherethe school'strophy is kept.

I could be wrong about the two reason but what the hell. It's a message board where everyone is right. In their own minds.

 

[Indndawg]

NFLN said one of his failures as Redskin's coach was his propensity to hit the links and turn everything over to the staff. Lazy

 

[thatsbaseball]

as successful ashe`s has been at SoCar. I don`t have a bunch of things to back that up other than just a feeling.

 

[rebelrouseri]

work out so he is back calling plays. He also got a slow start recruiting, which he does not like to do. He pulled in two good classes after he realized he wasn't at UF anymore where the recruits lined up but he is back to mediocre recruiting again this year. He's still got it as a coach but he doesn't like to recruit and that hurts at SC. People think he lost it coaching but he just didn't have that much talent or playmakers. If he doesn't do well this year w/ a good qb and some playmakers, I will admit he needs to retire. He is surrounded by UNC (who cheats), NCSU, Wake, Duke, Clemson, Ga. Tech. and UGA all within 3 hours. If he retires, there is no way they give that job to his son (Holtz tried to do the same thing although his son may turn out to be pretty good).

 

[jackstefano]

Prior to Spurrier's arrival, they had won 6 games in a season just 33 times (again, that's in 113 years). They've won at least 6 every year he's been there. South Carolina, in its entire history, has competed in 15 bowl games. 4 of those have come in Spurrier's 5 years there. They didn't win their first bowl gameuntil--1995.They had never won a game in Knoxville until he arrived. Spurrier hasn't been flashy there, but he's done very well by comparison. They have literally no tradition to build on.

 

[SLUdog]

but Lou did have a some decent years before he arrived. If he did the same at MSU or UM most fans should be pleased.

 

[thatsbaseball]

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[patdog]

who couldn't adapt once everybody else caught up to his offensive schemes.

 

[patdog]

with a guaranteed I-AA win to boot. It only takes a 5-6 Div. I-A record to get 6 wins these days. Even Rockey Felker did that his last 2 seasons at MSU and it got him fired. The fact is, USC's Div. I-A record in the 5 years prior to Spurrier taking over is better then their Div. I-A record in the 5 years since he took over. For the last several years, he has been an average coach.

 

[Indndawg]

MSU would trade USC for their success w/Granny and Ball coach, but we just go finished w/an imbecile and burned out coach

 

[Hector.sixpack]

And that's Spurrier's fault as well, but I don't think his schemes are out-dated. Ive stated on here that SC will compete for the east- experienced QB, best WR corp to date, good defense- and I think he knows this is his last year.

Spurrier's main problem was the failure to recruit good QBs and probably recruiting in general.

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[patdog]

they're no longer 10 years ahead of their time. And that was the huge advantage he had over everyone else back in the 90s. He doesn't have that advantage any more.