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
That's just the way they do it in the NFL, ... But the rule in college is what they call slightly new. That's what they call it, slightly new.
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.
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?
Anybody wants to come out, we appreciate it. We like to have some people in the stands when our guys are playing. We're going to keep score, offense against defense. The loser has to run. So it's going to be a score-keeping day.
The university has graciously ruled in favor of Freddy and it now appears he is eligible to be back on the team. He will begin as the third team guard and will have to work his way up.
What we know about them is they had a tough, struggling year last year, but that year is history.
I do have some young coaches, but I don't really believe that is the biggest problem we have here.
What I've been telling everyone that loves Carolina football is that we are going to put a team out there that, number one, is in good shape. We're going to be fit, we are going to be able to play the whole game and we're not going to poop out.
I don't want to coach too far into my 60s. By then, I'll be playing golf four or five times a week.
We're actually trying to separate them a little bit. They need to be their own person a little bit more,
We have not done some stupid things that occasionally happens to teams,
We haven't made a lot of big things happen on special teams, but we haven't had a lot of bad things go against us. So we're probably an average special teams group.
Our players have remained relaxed when on the verge of winning,
We realize we have not done anything to earn the spotlight, but we'll take it, ... Hopefully, our play will prove that maybe we deserve it. So that's what we'll try and do Thursday night.