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
It will be a little bit different style of offense from what I'm used to coaching.
It will be a completely different game plan. We'll have some new ball plays for these guys.
Oh sure, ... As a coach, you always have a little concern about what possibly could go bad and this, that and the other. But at some point, you say, 'Hey, we've done all we can.'
Bobby and I come from academic schools. He comes from Furman and I come from Duke. We're academic guys.
It was a good first day. We'd be pretty stupid to be out here in the rain (today) and let this day go by. I just think it's smart to pick the good days instead of the bad ones.
Most coaches will tell you it's very important to win that last one. That's all anyone talks about.
The fun thing about here, ... is that no one says, 'That doesn't work in the NFL.' I haven't heard that here.
They've got pass rushers all over the place. They've got cover guys, just a very talented group of guys, ... But no different than Georgia and some of the other top teams we're going to play. ... We've got execute, move the ball and try to score some points.
If something happened that I pursued it and went after it, I would be trying to redo what we did in 12 years,
I'm not going to feel bad because a few plays here and there, they beat us, ... I'm going to enjoy being 1-0.
I do apologize to our fans. I thought we'd be more competitive than we were today.
I don't yell at him near as bad as I used to. We yell at them a little bit, and then we pat them on the butt. We also tell them how good they're doing at times, too, so it's not all negative.
If they didn't fumble a lot, we might be out there in overtime,
It was in the normal course of the game,