Neo
09-07-2006, 08:54 PM
This is a C/P from another site....
Watch out Georgia. Spurrier will do whatever it takes to win.
In an oddly gapped spread formation, (looked like 11 guys who got lost on the way to the huddle) against a defense that had no idea what to do next, Florida passed for a first down. On the same drive, Florida executed a faked-injury play, a long-lateral-and-pass play, a quarterback rollout on fourth-and-one, and a game-winning pass from 2 yards out--every play a gamble, every play built on the one preceding it, a kaleidoscopic display of offense that, had it been done in the NFL, would have punched Spurrier's ticket to Canton.
On Sept. 2, 2000. Florida was set to face off against the hapless Ball State Cardinals. Ball State entered the game riding a 17-game losing streak. This was a program so desperate for talent it once recruited Jason Whitlock. First play of the game Spurrier called an onside kick. Yet it’s hard to get upset about that call, because in a profession filled with frauds and hypocrites, Spurrier never pretended to be something he wasn’t.
Spurrier brought his team back out onto North Carolina turf to take a picture of the scoreboard with his gloating Duke Blue Devils in the foreground. Mack Brown took it to the media saying that Spurrier had shown a real lack of class by doing that on someone else’s home field. Spurrier’s response when asked, “Why? I’ve got a better record on that field than he does”.
As if redemption against the FSU team who gave Danny Wuerffel a "boot" party in their only loss of the season wasn’t enough…early in the fourth quarter, with Florida up by 18 points, Florida busts a huge hole on a shotgun trap, springing Terry Jackson for a TD and extending the lead to 25 against the vaunted jailhouse D of FSU. The camera goes to Football’s Lucifer on the sidelines, who is smiling and pin wheeling his pointed hand that on the spot determined the international gesture for “run it up
Former Duke QB said that in a practice at Duke, Spurrier had him practicing a certain elaborate route that QB Brown simply could not hit on time. “I don’t think it’s working, coach.” Spurrier went under center and proceeded to hit the throw several times in a row. Brown stood dumbfounded. Spurrier threw the last ball, turned to Brown and announced, “I must be a better quarterback than you.”
Louisville Courier-Journal columnist Pat Forde says of the scoreboard-spinning Spurrier: "Rang up 73 on Bill Curry, who once chose not to retain Spurrier as an assistant at Georgia Tech. Rang up 50+ three times on Hal Mumme, for being more interested in big stats than wins.
Winging three birds with one insult, Spurrier once said, "Half our players don't know who coaches Georgia, Tennessee or Vanderbilt."
Always thinking, in 1994 Spurrier improvised on an old gimmick play from the Emory & Henry College's 1950s offense resulting in the winning touchdown for the 1994 SEC championship game.
On the BCS: "You know what? Why don't we use the BCS to determine who wins the (SEC) East and West Divisions and then play the championship game?" (Amen)
Watch out Georgia. Spurrier will do whatever it takes to win.
In an oddly gapped spread formation, (looked like 11 guys who got lost on the way to the huddle) against a defense that had no idea what to do next, Florida passed for a first down. On the same drive, Florida executed a faked-injury play, a long-lateral-and-pass play, a quarterback rollout on fourth-and-one, and a game-winning pass from 2 yards out--every play a gamble, every play built on the one preceding it, a kaleidoscopic display of offense that, had it been done in the NFL, would have punched Spurrier's ticket to Canton.
On Sept. 2, 2000. Florida was set to face off against the hapless Ball State Cardinals. Ball State entered the game riding a 17-game losing streak. This was a program so desperate for talent it once recruited Jason Whitlock. First play of the game Spurrier called an onside kick. Yet it’s hard to get upset about that call, because in a profession filled with frauds and hypocrites, Spurrier never pretended to be something he wasn’t.
Spurrier brought his team back out onto North Carolina turf to take a picture of the scoreboard with his gloating Duke Blue Devils in the foreground. Mack Brown took it to the media saying that Spurrier had shown a real lack of class by doing that on someone else’s home field. Spurrier’s response when asked, “Why? I’ve got a better record on that field than he does”.
As if redemption against the FSU team who gave Danny Wuerffel a "boot" party in their only loss of the season wasn’t enough…early in the fourth quarter, with Florida up by 18 points, Florida busts a huge hole on a shotgun trap, springing Terry Jackson for a TD and extending the lead to 25 against the vaunted jailhouse D of FSU. The camera goes to Football’s Lucifer on the sidelines, who is smiling and pin wheeling his pointed hand that on the spot determined the international gesture for “run it up
Former Duke QB said that in a practice at Duke, Spurrier had him practicing a certain elaborate route that QB Brown simply could not hit on time. “I don’t think it’s working, coach.” Spurrier went under center and proceeded to hit the throw several times in a row. Brown stood dumbfounded. Spurrier threw the last ball, turned to Brown and announced, “I must be a better quarterback than you.”
Louisville Courier-Journal columnist Pat Forde says of the scoreboard-spinning Spurrier: "Rang up 73 on Bill Curry, who once chose not to retain Spurrier as an assistant at Georgia Tech. Rang up 50+ three times on Hal Mumme, for being more interested in big stats than wins.
Winging three birds with one insult, Spurrier once said, "Half our players don't know who coaches Georgia, Tennessee or Vanderbilt."
Always thinking, in 1994 Spurrier improvised on an old gimmick play from the Emory & Henry College's 1950s offense resulting in the winning touchdown for the 1994 SEC championship game.
On the BCS: "You know what? Why don't we use the BCS to determine who wins the (SEC) East and West Divisions and then play the championship game?" (Amen)