🏈 Spurrier fires off at saban.

[gregkelley]

Anyone heard comment steve spurrier said about saban? He said that if he wanted to be known as as great coach he needed to win somewhere else besides alabama because anyone could win at alabama. It seems funny to me him saying that with his small amout of sucess at florida and then his flop in the nfl and now at with what he has done at south carolina which is not much of anything isnt he really talking about himself?

 

[bamascw]

We have had plenty of coaches that could not win while at Alabama so I guess Spurrier's comments are moot. All of the really good coaches have an ego and I am sure Spurrier's has been bruised since his return to the SEC. Just my 2 cents worth. :joyous:

 

[TheChief]

We have had plenty of coaches that could not win while at Alabama so I guess Spurrier's comments are moot. All of the really good coaches have an ego and I am sure Spurrier's has been bruised since his return to the SEC. Just my 2 cents worth. :joyous:

Spurrier is a -

Okay, I edited it, because it might not have been good for a family board. But it was funny. See, it was a play on words with the male anatomy and the mascot of usc-e.

Anyway, he is...

 

[UAgrad93]

What Spurrier says must be taken with a grain of salt. If one looks at the history books, almost every single coach ever to roam the sideline at BAMA has had at least 1 season of 10 or more wins. Hell, even DuBose and Shula did it! I guess that with Spurrier's advancing age, he has forgotten what Saban did at Michigan State and LSU.

 

[LBS]

Anyone here not already aware that Spurrier is a little out of touch with reality?

Its sad to think that he just insulted the coaches that did succeed, disregarding their acheivement and attributing it to nothing more than staying out of the way of the success train.

 

[TerryP]

What Spurrier says must be taken with a grain of salt. If one looks at the history books, almost every single coach ever to roam the sideline at BAMA has had at least 1 season of 10 or more wins. Hell, even DuBose and Shula did it! I guess that with Spurrier's advancing age, he has forgotten what Saban did at Michigan State and LSU.

Ears Whitworth is the only one. Well, I suppose we could throw Mike Price in that mix as well. But, on the same note, he would have had a 10 win season.

If I see the article again this morning I'll link it. SOS made a few jabs at a few different coaches during that interview. He's just entertaining himself. That's Spurrier.

 

[LBS]

Ears Whitworth is the only one. Well, I suppose we could throw Mike Price in that mix as well. But, on the same note, he would have had a 10 win season.

If I see the article again this morning I'll link it. SOS made a few jabs at a few different coaches during that interview. He's just entertaining himself. That's Spurrier.

That's the difference. 10 wins at South Carolina gets his contract extended. 10 Wins at Bama got Curry fired. "Great Coach" is not defined by wins.

 

[BamaFan615]

I've always kinda enjoyed Spurrier's antics, even though I couldn't stand him during his days at Florida. But he was always a nice little thorn in the side of Fat Phil...so I learned to enjoy him, for at least one week a year.

My favorite Spurrier quote has to be "you can't spell Citrus without UT" - I can't remember exactly how many years straight it was, but it seemed like during the Vols "good years" they continually would have good teams, but could never beat Florida...and therefore would always end up at the Citrus Bowl.

I know plenty of people like Spurrier, you're either going to see his obnoxiousness as humor, and you like him. Or you'll his obnoxiousness will annoy you, and you will hate him. Now I'm not exactly in love with Spurrier, but I think the guy's hilarious.

 

[UAgrad93]

Ears Whitworth is the only one. Well, I suppose we could throw Mike Price in that mix as well. But, on the same note, he would have had a 10 win season.

If I see the article again this morning I'll link it. SOS made a few jabs at a few different coaches during that interview. He's just entertaining himself. That's Spurrier.

I knew Whitworth was one for sure and I didn't include Price since he never stepped on the sidelines. I shoud've put my almost in bold.

 

[Mr. Pink]

Of course he wants Saban to go somewhere else... so do about 12 other SEC coaches. He is correct about "anyone" can win at Bama- Curry and Shula had great seasons but were still eventually let go and the same could be said about DuBoise (although terminated for a different reason). The difference is SUSTAINING success. Bama is consistently in the top 5 each year, not because anyone can do it at Bama, but because Saban knows how to sustain success.

2010- 10-3, a Heisman Finalist, and 4 1st round selection = disappointing season only by Alabama standards. Bama has been in the hunt for a NC each of the past 4 years, winning 2, and will be one of a few schools picked to win it all again in 2012- not just anyone can do that at Bama.

 

[ElephantStomp]

It's Spurrier...can't be surprised

 

[Splittine]

Didn't South Carolina get rings for winning 11 games in a season? With those expectations it kinda makes sense why Spurrier is butt hurt over Saban and Bama, I mean we give the boys rings when they actually achieve something ie. SEC Championship and NC.

 

[bamaraider]

Is Spurrier basically taking a shot at himself though? I mean look at it, he went to Florida, yeah he excelled and won 1 National championship and 6 SEC Championships at a place that's easy to recruit, but what else has he done? He went to South Carolina has bean dismal until these past 2 years. So when he says Nick Saban should go somewhere else to become a "Great Coach" and isn't in HIS EYES he thinks it is because Alabama wins all the time (ignoring the fact that he brought LSU back on the map); couldn't you look at what he HASN'T done at USC? Bye all means if he had that sort of record at Alabama he would have been canned along time ago.

 

[TheChief]

They got a name for the winners in the world...

 

[TerryP]

Didn't South Carolina get rings for winning 11 games in a season? With those expectations it kinda makes sense why Spurrier is butt hurt over Saban and Bama, I mean we give the boys rings when they actually achieve something ie. SEC Championship and NC.

It's easy to think that since the 11 wins is so noticeable. Those rings were for the bowl game though...just so happens they included the 11 wins because it was the first in school history.

FWIW, our first 11 win season? 1961. 11-0.

 

[TerryP]

I knew Whitworth was one for sure and I didn't include Price since he never stepped on the sidelines. I shoud've put my almost in bold.

It's been several years since I looked at all of this but one of the few things I do remember was Ears being the only one. Since the school started playing 10 games in a season every coach we've had has hit that 10 win mark. Hell, the first season we had 10 wins? It was almost a century ago. I want to say 1920, or something like that.

Another FWIW...

It was that 1961 team that was the first with all their wins over D1A opponents. You go back to the 10 win teams before that and you'll see a few non-D1A teams on their schedules.

 

[Bo]

I may be wrong, but I think he also said he thought Saban was the best coach in the SEC in that same interview?

 

[Duder]

I think you guys are taking his comments too seriously. It seems like his typical sarcasm to me

 

[psychojoe]

Just Spurriwer being Spurrier. I always enjoyed his jibes when he was at UF.

 

[Argo]

I don't know, I took it as a compliment to the school. The actual quote was,

"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."

Maybe it's a small dig at Saban, but it's a compliment to the University of Alabama. At least the way I see it.

Now his comment about Georgia? That was classic!