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
When you're the head coach in college, the athletic director and president are your bosses, but they do not come in and tell you how to run the football program,
Our stadium seats over 80,000, and we sell all of our tickets.
The only thing I think I got was a little humility to the fact that you have a greater appreciation for all coaches. Sometimes you can coach your heart out, hard as you can, and the other guy just may have a better team and better players.
Most coaches will tell you it's very important to win that last one. That's all anyone talks about.
Welcome Coach Spurrier. He was always a little cocky.
We're lousy coaches if we can't play better than the other night. I probably did too much media myself. We need to concentrate on playing.
We're not getting rid of anybody. We are readjusting the defensive coach and we are going to hire a defensive line coach.
Y'all never had a coach apologize for the performance around here? Is that what you're saying? Huh? Really?
He is an excellent coach, an excellent recruiter and a good person. We think he will fit in extremely well here as he has in the past. He has a wonderful reputation as a coach and as a recruiter.
Certainly, Blake has improved. He has certainly learned what's going on, and he should play much, much better this year. I hope we have some coaches around here so our guys improve from one year to the next.
We just wanted to look around in the stadium and realize how fortunate we are to be able to coach and play in front of 80,000 people that love their team like we have here. Who knows if it does any good or not? We'll find out Saturday at 1 o'clock.
There's not too much to say. Alabama thoroughly beat us. They are a better team. They were coached better, they played better, and they looked like they will have a big season. They have a heck of a team.
So, we were able to throw, and run, the ball successfully, and play defense. And well, we won the conference six in my first seven years there.
Coaches go out with a little bit of strut in their step instead of hanging their heads down if they get clobbered.