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
We'll have to see how it all plays out. Certainly Blake is our starter. He threw some errant balls out there today. Blake didn't play his best; he knows that. He's still the starter, but it was encouraging that Cade sort of proved that if something happens he can go play. We thought he would be. We'll try to get Cade as ready as possible. He's definitely second right now.
We've got to work on signaling from me or the sideline to the quarterback. We're way behind on that. We need a good two weeks of communication teaching before we're ready to play.
We've had teams that want to come visit us, and what we say is we'll provide some tape. You can come and watch tape. But as coaches, we don't sit down and go over every detail with them. I think that's the way it should be almost everywhere.
There are all kinds of firsts available here. At Florida, 14-0 is about all that's available there.
When you have 40 days off, as both us and Missouri have had, some teams can be better or worse, so hopefully we'll be better.
We have to change our ways, that's a positive. Hopefully we won't put a performance like this on again. Even though Alabama is a bigger and stronger team, we should have bee more competitive. A turnover here or there may have helped us win the game, but we got no turnovers.
We want to play big time, so we have to act big time all year long.
We don't need a lot of cookies on Thursday afternoon before games. No, my background as a coach, we've never liked showering the guys with a lot of praise before the game. I don't know how that helps.
We did run a little bit, ... But nothing spectacular.
We got Pops a catch for the record book.
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.
We don't think all this attention will get to him. That's something we talk to him about.
We feel pretty good about a bunch of them. A bunch of them have pretty much indicated that they will commit to us, and there's some we can't take their commitments right now. So it's a balancing act.
We'll be expecting a little bit of anything. When you have a team that has struggled and you need a big spark, what you would try to do is create some blitz to maybe hit the quarterback, cause a fumble, scoop it up and go score, get those kind of touchdowns.