Spurrier fires another shot at Ole Miss
Steve Spurrier has found a new foil in Ole Miss. (AP photo)
And he seems to have found a new foil — Ole Miss, oddly enough — to add to his favorite targets, Georgia and Tennessee.
His latest feud began a couple of weeks ago as he was complaining about Georgia seemingly having an easier schedule than the Gamecocks in the SEC East.
“You think I make the schedule? If I made the schedule Georgia would be playing LSU and we’d be playing Ole Miss,” he said.
Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze picked up on the slight and responded.
“We do play them in 2013,” Freeze said. “I will circle that one and hopefully change his perspective of Ole Miss football.”
Spurrier, of course, has never let anybody have the last word, so he used a visit to ESPN headquarters in Bristol, Conn., this week to comment on Freeze’s recruitment of Penn State players.
While Spurrier told ESPN he’s “not actively recruiting any Penn State players,” it’s understandable, he said, that Ole Miss is: “They need some ball players there.”
The ball’s in Freeze’s court, but the first-year SEC coach might want to call a truce in the child’s game of “is not, is too.” Because when it comes to child’s games, Spurrier, like most kids, never seems to get tired.
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Dawgnlex is a complete tool
July 27th, 2012
9:58 am
i liked his comments on UGAg earlier this year. what a d__k running.
Jefferson
July 27th, 2012
10:06 am
The man owns UGA, no matter if they win or not.
oledawg
July 27th, 2012
10:11 am
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claytondawg
July 27th, 2012
10:11 am
Athensdawg…you are right: Most ‘Dog fans do detest Spurrier, because he’s a winner. He’s had a lot of success against the ‘Dogs–there is no denying it. I’m not one of his fans: however, I love his wit, grit, and attitude. College football is a business. If you’re going to play a team with a coach of Spurrier’s caliber, then you better be ready to “put up or shut up.” Go ‘Dogs!!!
Ole Miss Alum
July 27th, 2012
10:12 am
As an Ole Miss alumni and fan, I hate that Spurrier has a valid point. Hopefully Coach Freeze can turn our program around and make Spurrier eat his words next year.
oledawg
July 27th, 2012
10:18 am
Anyone care to bet that the “old ball coach” got his ass beat on a regular basis while growing up. I heard the mention or sighting of Bill Stanfill causes him to wet his pants. He’s a jerk who has control over football players, but lacks enough clout to persuade Augusta National to allow him to become a member. Thank you Mr. Billy Payne.
Try and imagine Spurrier if you are out socializing with him and are confronted by a thug wanting money. Does ANYONE think Spurrier would have their back—or perhaps how fast would he run for the tall grass.
He’s a girlie man who coaches football. A no class girlie man.
bamaguy
July 27th, 2012
10:20 am
If an SEC basketball coach said of the SEC tournament “I would rather play Alabama in the first round than Kentucky” I would neither be offended nor would I say that he was being “disrespectful” to our basketball team. The fact is Kentucky is much better at basketball than Alabama. And LSU is much better at football than Mississippi.
Macaac
July 27th, 2012
10:22 am
Best T-shrit ever: “Will Rogers never met Steve Spurrier”
Dirty Dawg
July 27th, 2012
10:24 am
Ole Miss Alum…trust me whatever happens to Superior he’ll never ‘eat his words’…that takes a conscience and class, of which he has neither. You’ll, like the Dogs, will have to be satisfied with kicking his butt when the time comes and even then he’ll probably have something smarta$$ to say. You see he’s one of those guys they’re talking about when they say, ‘There’s no end to the pr?$k’.
Jorge O'Leary
July 27th, 2012
10:25 am
I’ll bet Spurrier never got out-coached by me and his team out hustled by Central Florida…
oledawg
July 27th, 2012
10:32 am
Hey jorge—might want to watch a team from NEBRASKA that I recall not only out coached—but simply outclassed and sent the little tyrant home whimpering. They beat the living hell out of Spurrier.
ed f
July 27th, 2012
10:36 am
Ole Miss is clearly rebuilding. But i don’t know which I’d rather have this Year. LSU in Athens or be the First SEC team to play Missouri on Their field. We know LSU as a team and a program. But Missouri is probably going to pin their Ears back harder for this game than any this Season!!! So we better be focused for Missouri. I wonder if the Ole ball coach thought about that before opening his Chops???
Mick Dee
July 27th, 2012
10:47 am
Gotta love Da Spur!
OBC says what he thinks. You want to shut him up? Do it on Saturday.
59bulldawg
July 27th, 2012
10:55 am
Spurrier is the ultimate jackass. I’ll be pulling for Ole Miss in that 2013 game.
zeke
July 27th, 2012
10:56 am
50%, no, probably more like 90%! Like him or not based on his one liners, but, HE IS A GREAT COACH AND PERSON!!
Gator Guy
July 27th, 2012
10:57 am
Hey Provano; apparently the Old Ball Coach never gets tired of beating Georgia either–ooohhh snap. Don’t shoot off the mouth when your brain lacks the ammunition.
jake from state farm
July 27th, 2012
11:00 am
I love the guy. He’s always good for a quip that may be perceived as underhanded if you’re on the receiving end. UGA hates him because he owns them.
JB
July 27th, 2012
11:00 am
South Carolina. The easiest trophy case in the conference to move for cleaning behind it. It’s empty.
Todd Poucher
July 27th, 2012
11:09 am
If Spurrier owns the dawgs (unlike he did as a player)….then I guess the Dawgs own the Nerds over on North Ave. Keep em coming haters
seabass
July 27th, 2012
11:16 am
We haven’t been able to do it, but someone will catch his team just right and beat there rears 42-0. I do not see UGA doing it due to his hate for us and our coach’s philosophy. But an LSU or Arkansas will one day.It will not stop him. He will always be the bully of block. But it will curb his picking for a year or so.
dawgfan
July 27th, 2012
11:17 am
I wouldn’t want Spurrier as a coach at this stage in his career. I question whether his heart is really in it. I think he’s playing South Carolina like a harp. Its just an experiment for him. He doesn’t care about South Carolina. Steve is all about Steve. Other than last year his team’s have been mediocre at best. In all the hoopla about UGA’s weak schedule last year nobody noticed that South Carolina played a pretty weak schedule too. They didn’t play Alabama or LSU either. They played heavyweights such as East Carolina, Navy and the Citadel out of conference. It took some miracles for them to beat UGA too. Alot of things went South Carolina’s way for them to win 11 games last year, but all Spurrier does is cry like a little girl. He’s an okay coach but past his prime. The only coach that I would rather have than Richt is Saban. That’s it. I like Les Miles but he seems to volatile and inconsistent to me. I don’t think we’d be much better off with him as our coach. Urban Meyer is a great coach and obviously ran laps around Richt but he’s an azz and I couldn’t support him.
There. I just told it like it is, just like Spurrier.
Leave it to a neck to .....
July 27th, 2012
11:17 am
interject Tech into the discussion when it’s NOT about Tech. It’s about Spurrier. You people should be happy-he ran Bubba Gump & Jim (Financial Planner) Donnan out of Athens!
NCAA FAN
July 27th, 2012
11:17 am
Man I hope Spurrier coaches a very, very long time. His quotes can brighten up an otherwise dull day!
MattMD
July 27th, 2012
11:21 am
SOS will always own Georgia.
stilldefiant
July 27th, 2012
11:21 am
Classic Spurrier! Hilarious
oledawg
July 27th, 2012
11:26 am
JB’s line is the BEST I’ve read in a long time. Those fans in Columbia are clueless.
Smokewagon
July 27th, 2012
11:31 am
This so called man needs to learn to keep his mouth shut and quit crying. I don’t think anybody outside of Columbia gives a flying fornication what he has to say. Shut up and get your team ready to play!!
BHJC
July 27th, 2012
11:33 am
My mom and my aunt went to high school with Spurrier and they say he was a jerk back then also. I guess old age hasn’t mellowed him in any way. His brother on the other hand, who I met at my aunt’s wedding, is a super nice guy.
To-Tell-The-Truth
July 27th, 2012
11:33 am
Whine, whine, whine, whine…Most of these comments are being written by a bunch of poosies. There’s nothing sacred about college football; it’s just another corrupt sport: vegas gambling; abundant recruiting violations that everyone knows about but pretends not to know; punish a kid for taking a steak dinner while paying coaches/staffs millions of dollars; etc Meanwhile, kids are out on the field running into each other as hard as they can and often injuring each other on purpose. And for what–so a bunch of folk can sit up in the stands, at sports bars, and other places jumping and cheering for money, bragging rights, the opportunity to INSULT others from opposing schools, etc. Hey folks, it’s not a gentleman’s game; stop pretending that it is.
In general, I don’t think he said anything wrong (Georgia does have an easy schedule; Ole Miss does perennially land at the bottom of the conference and, therefore, do need some players). Also, the game is dominated by Type A personalities that are full of arrogance–some you hear about, some you don’t. Talking “noise” is fun to me and makes the games exciting in most sports. Some people cross the line, but it’s human nature. Spurrier’s UF teams were stacked with talent. How do these stacked teams happen? School legacy, coaching system in place, and other “standard” stuff? Or, the “Dark side”, driven mostly by the money and power that feeds recruiting violations? Many of the kids who are recruited to play at these “prestigious” universities couldn’t been seen on the campuses (for all kinds of reasons) where they play if they weren’t really good athletes.
So we should shut up, stop whining, and enjoy some college football. Let people talk noise; let kids celebrate there accomplishments; and let the fans drink themselves into a stupor while watching. That’s what this stuff is all about and it’s not going to stop because because a bunch of folk are whining about comments Steve Spurrier made–which we only do when we’re on the other side. We are Steve Spurrier and he is us. We may not do exactly what he does, but we’re all complicit in some way or another, while pretending to be innocent saints watching an innocent sport. Get the fick outta here!
M
July 27th, 2012
11:34 am
As a UGA fan, I’m embarrassed by our schedule this year. I’d rather go 8-4 and have those four losses be against top-notch SEC talent than have a 9-3/10-2 record (inflated with wins against cupcakes and doormats).
Gene Holmes
July 27th, 2012
11:37 am
As a classmate of Archie Manning, I remember Ole Miss’ glory days. Under John Vaught, we won 6 SEC championships. While recent successes have been sparse, Eli Manning did lead us to a tie for the SEC West with LSU in 2003, and we beat LSU in 2008 and 2009 on the way to winning consecutive Cotton Bowls. But I have to admit that Spurrier is right on the current facts. Hopefully Coach Freeze can turn things around in Oxford.
Gene Holmes
July 27th, 2012
11:44 am
I might add that Eli also beat Florida twice, something that Peyton never did.
BG
July 27th, 2012
11:46 am
I’m pretty sure Richt has a winning record against Spurrier. Nuff said!
Ray Goff
July 27th, 2012
11:46 am
All the best coaches are jerks. Look at Miles, Saban, Belechik and Jimmy Johnson.
Derpmaster
July 27th, 2012
11:54 am
Funny he is making rivarly with the bottom dwellar of the West, DERP.
GimmeAbreak
July 27th, 2012
12:06 pm
Markie Mark, you left off the SOS starts at UF. In three years as the QB Spurrier is 0 – 3 against the Dawgs! And the year he won the Heisman UF lost 1 game and that was to UGA! And, if I am not way off, the UGA starter that wonderful Saturday was Ray Goff! No f’ing wonder he hates us!
jake from state farm
July 27th, 2012
12:41 pm
Todd Poucher – deflection is what you are doing. This a serious psychological problem that almost all UGA fans are afflicted with. ESPECIALLY the ones that never went there, which is about 90% of the fan base.
guy
July 27th, 2012
12:45 pm
spurrier is a child in a man’s body.He is bitter and loves to hear himself talk.Pride cometh before the fall!He won’t discuss what happened in 1966 at the Ga.-fl. game or how he wasn’t man enough for the NFL.Ask him if he remembers Bill Stanfill and George Patton from the 1966 game with Georgia,especially the second half.He may not because he was on his back looking straight up most of that second half.
Keith
July 27th, 2012
12:50 pm
Spurriers comments are funny- seems to me that Ole Miss and Missy State had a knack for beating his UF teams
Son of Sammy Davis Jr, Jr
July 27th, 2012
12:58 pm
2 hours to his west he has Augusta National, 2.5 hours to the South he has Ocean Course
(Kiawah Island), 2.5 hours to his east he has the Golf Capital of the World,
3 hours to his north he has Grove Park Inn Golf Course.
I have a feeling Spurrier is going to be in Columbia for a while playing golf and coaching football.
John Turner
July 27th, 2012
1:08 pm
Thing is, Ole Miss would rather play SC than Georgia too! And on the Penn State players comment, the paper is just a little behind on that…Spurrier was just answering questions reporters were asking him, and he was refering to a conversation he had had with Freeze about it . It was not a jab.
Brainiac (CMR/UGA Fan For Life)
July 27th, 2012
1:22 pm
@ Frontman:
It is really hard to believe the coach of a team whose ONLY accomplishment in school HISTORY is ONE(aka 1) (aka a single) SECe Division Title.would be dissing other SEC schools!!!
That probably explains why he finally booted Garcia after dozens of infractions!!
Ole Miss has won an SEC title and will likely win another before Spurrier does. It is almost a given IF HE STAYS AT USCe!!!!
I guess he is still pi$$ed that he could win another SMALL Title last year!!!!
Maybe he should consider beating some of the OTHER SEC Teams if he wants USCe to EVER win anything of significance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CMR won 2 SEC Championships and 4 SEC East titles in his first 6 years!!!!!!
I’m sure The Ole Visor-throwing Wimp would like to be able to say the same!!!!
It ain’t ever going to happen!!!
Lmao!!!!!!!
Brainiac (CMR/UGA Fan For Life)
July 27th, 2012
1:24 pm
Make that “could not win another”
Dawgnlex is a complete tool
July 27th, 2012
1:26 pm
OLE SISS will probably beat UGAy this year.
Courtney
July 27th, 2012
1:42 pm
He is a piece of trash. So is Columbia. I like South Carolina, but the capital city is a hell hole.
Son of Sammy Davis Jr, Jr
July 27th, 2012
1:43 pm
I think we all need to realistic about Georgia football. Under Coach Richt Georgia football has peaked. I like Coach Richt as a coach and as a person, but as a program there is nothing more he can accomplish at Georgia. Georgia will elect a Democratic U.S. Senator before they ever win a National Championship.
aw
July 27th, 2012
2:06 pm
I hate to say it, but Spurrier is RIGHT. We need players, and Dudley not a chance we beat them in 2013. We have 0 talent and I mean 0.
If we played Valdosta State or West Georgia we would lose. Period! Houston Nutt left us desolate!
Old Dawg
July 27th, 2012
3:49 pm
Darth Visor strikes again!
Pitbull
July 27th, 2012
4:04 pm
The reason Stevie boy hates UGa is because when he was the UF QB and had UF rated number 1 in the country and he was headed toward the Heisman, he had to play UGA in Jacksonville and the Georgia defense shredded him. He spent the day on his butt and Florida lost the game and their number 1 ranking.
He has never got over it because he is such a small man, well such a small person.
BLT
July 27th, 2012
4:19 pm
“Lot of BS hypocrisy there if you ask me.”
Nobody asked you dawgfan. Now open a window, you’re stinking the place up!