From NBC Sports Talk On Saban: ““He’s got a nice little gig going, a little bit like Calipari. He tells guys, ‘Hey, three years from now, you’re going to be a first-round pick and go.’ If he wants to be the greatest coach or one of the greatest coaches in college football, to me, he has to go somewhere besides Alabama and win, because they’ve always won there at Alabama.”* On Richt and moving the Georgia game on the schedule: “I don’t know. I sort of always liked playing them that second game because you could always count on them having two or three key players suspended.” He's wrong about Saban needing to prove himself outside of Alabama (his track record kind of speaks for itself) but it's still funny
apparently he isn't aware of the mike shula era. do you think this is spurrier excusing away his not spectacular record at USC? i bet saban could have them winning SEC championships.
What this tells me is that Spurrier really likes this ball team and we should be concerned about SC this fall.
i'm not so sure about that droski. Spurrier won 11 last year at USC and that has never happened at that crap hole. It's ashame we couldn't get spurrier when he decided to go to USC.
This is Spurrier saying he thinks he's got a hell of a team. Alabama had a 10 win season under Shula in 2005. The team was talented but poorly coached. The only time Alabama has really faltered has been when they've gotten caught cheating.
First time SC ever won the East was in 2010. Actually I'm not sure they ever even came in third before Spurrier. They won it in 2012, too, of not for ridiculous SEC West games.
Holtz laid a pretty good foundation for Spurrier all things considered. Spurrier would have more than likely turned them around anyway, but having Holtz there saved the ole ball coach having one or two losing seasons straight out of the gate. Before Holtz got there SC was absolutely terrible.
It's definitely debatable that Holtz's first team there in 99 is the worst SEC team of my lifetime. 0-11, and I'm not sure they were even that good. He inherited nothing.
Spurrier booted like eight starters his first month in charge. Holtz was notorious for scorching the earth right as he left.
I can't recall that one. 2003 was the year James Banks played so well and won the game in OT. Dustin Colquitt might have played the best game I've ever seen from a punter.