Steve Spurrier
Steve Spurrier
Stephen Orr Spurrieris a former American football player and coach, having served as the head coach of three college and two professional teams. Spurrier was also noteworthy as a standout college football player, and he spent a decade playing professionally in the National Football League. Spurrier retired from coaching in 2015 and now serves as an ambassador and consultant for the University of Florida's athletic department...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth20 April 1945
CountryUnited States of America
As long as his play on the field is good he doesn't have to be a vocal guy.
Brad ran well. We tackled poorly but he made us miss. He's an excellent quarterback.
I told him, if you've got the deep third (of the field to cover), you can't break on that throw, even though you're watching the quarterback,
That's fine with me. We played the last five games without him. If he feels like he can contribute over there, that'll be fine. We'll see how it goes. He can always come back to offense if it's not working.
After being with a team that didn't score many points, I sort of realized why teams didn't like us (at Florida), ... We kept trying to score the whole game and for some reason, in football, you're not supposed to do that. If we lose by a big number, that's fine with me.
They just kept making third and long and some fourths. We have to get better on that down. It shouldn't be that easy for teams to make that play.
Brett has done a little bit better. I would say if you had to rank them, that's the way it would be - Blake and Cade and Brett and Tommy.
I just think we couldn't hit anything. You have a lot of plays ready that you'd like to get to. Shoot, we never got to them.
Probably one or two freshmen will get the chance to play for us this year.
I think most of them like it. The message I've received is: We've never been asked to upgrade facilities, but if that's what we need to do to be big-time, we'll do it.
It looked easy early, then all of a sudden, it got tough.
That one Merle Haggard sings, ... Where he goes, 'What am I gonna do for the rest of my life?' I started thinking about that. What am I gonna do?
The time I went there, they weren't near the team they are now, ... A different environment, completely different. A different team. A different head coach. The fans, probably their enthusiasm is about 10 times greater than it was that day.
Not necessarily regret. He sort of helped bring Tyrone in. I think Tyrone's an excellent coach. It just didn't work out, I guess, is the easier way to say it when we had to make a change there in the middle of the year.