TRAGIC REPORT: FANS IN TEARS STEVE SPURRIER FORMER SOUTH CAROLINA HEAD COACH JUST PASSED AWAY AT THE AGED OF 75…see..more..

TRAGIC REPORT: FANS IN TEARS STEVE SPURRIER FORMER SOUTH CAROLINA HEAD COACH JUST PASSED AWAY AT THE AGED OF 75…see..more..

“When I first got there, people used to say, ‘Coach, just beat Clemson.’ And they said, ‘If you go 1-10 or 1-11 and we beat Clemson, we’ll be all right. I said, ‘No, we’re not. I’d rather beat these SEC guys and these good teams. We’re going to try to beat Clemson also, but that whole season is not about Clemson.’”

 

Spurrier felt as if he was loosing the attention and ear of his football team. A prime example of that was in his final season, he always hosted a chapel service the night before the game, a service that Spurrier says “90% of the team” woud typically come. That last season… fewer and fewer people were attending.

 

“I actually asked the team, I said, ‘I don’t think it’s too much to ask you guys to come in there for 40, 30 minutes, no more than that, the night before the game. We’ve done this for the 10 years I’ve been here. Never had any problem. … Well, they still did not want to come. They would not come. I said, ‘These guys don’t listen to me.’ And they didn’t. They didn’t listen to me.”

 

 

 

“When I first got there, people used to say, ‘Coach, just beat Clemson.’ And they said, ‘If you go 1-10 or 1-11 and we beat Clemson, we’ll be all right. I said, ‘No, we’re not. I’d rather beat these SEC guys and these good teams. We’re going to try to beat Clemson also, but that whole season is not about Clemson.’”

 

Spurrier felt as if he was loosing the attention and ear of his football team. A prime example of that was in his final season, he always hosted a chapel service the night before the game, a service that Spurrier says “90% of the team” woud typically come. That last season… fewer and fewer people were attending.

 

“I actually asked the team, I said, ‘I don’t think it’s too much to ask you guys to come in there for 40, 30 minutes, no more than that, the night before the game. We’ve done this for the 10 years I’ve been here. Never had any problem. … Well, they still did not want to come. They would not come. I said, ‘These guys don’t listen to me.’ And they didn’t. They didn’t listen to me.”