Spurrier makes another bid for attention
"Look at me!" (Associated Press)
It’s obvious why Steve Spurrier wants to change the way division champions are determined in the SEC: Last year his team won all its games against teams from the East but lost a couple to the West, which allowed Georgia, which lost to South Carolina but beat all its Western opponents, to take the Eastern division.
Generally, South Carolina under Spurrier fares better against its Eastern Division brethren than it does against teams from the SEC West. So Spurrier only wants to count games against the East in determining the division winner.
For some strange reason, LSU’s Les Miles supports that view, saying, “I’m for the Western Division deciding the Western Division champion and the Eastern Division deciding the Eastern Division champion.” Apparently it comes down to the fact that Miles doesn’t like the fact that LSU plays Florida every year while Alabama plays Tennessee. Or something like that. It’s hard to tell with the Hat.
Georgia’s Mark Richt thinks Spurrier’s plan is self-serving and silly, though he’s too much of a gentleman to come right out and say that. He’s pointed out that as the world turns, so does the SEC schedule, and what favors Spurrier and South Carolina this season might not work in their favor in the future. But just tell him the rules up front, Richt says, and he’ll play by them — the implication being that Spurrier should shut up and do the same.
Other SEC coaches, including Florida’s Will Muschamp, are against Spurrier’s plan. As Muschamp says, “An SEC game should count as an SEC game.”
Alabama’s Nick Saban puts it more forthrightly. “You’re going to sort of minimize the importance of cross-divisional games if you say they don’t’ count toward the championship,” Saban said. “Then we’re really not the SEC. Then we’re just an East and a West, so why would we play the games?”
It makes for interesting discussion, but, of course, Spurrier’s plan isn’t likely to come to fruition as long as SEC Commissioner Mike Slive has this point of view: “It’s hard for me to think about a conference game that doesn’t count.”
What this really amounts to is Spurrier’s annual bid to make himself the center of discussion at the conference confab. Last year, it was his stood-no-chance plan for coaches to pay players out of their own pockets. This year, it’s his problem with the way the division champ is determined. (Funny, he never had a problem with the same system during all those years he was at Florida.)
Next year, assuming he hasn’t retired by then, it’ll no doubt be something else.
The bottom line is that Spurrier is like a 5-year-old, constantly crying out for attention. “Look at me! Look at what I’m doing!”
It’s kind of pathetic, really.
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Rampdawg
May 30th, 2012
1:17 pm
Steve Superior
May 30th, 2012
12:39 pm
To all haters, I want to see your cowardly behinds on this blog sucking up to everything Dawg after the University of Georgia Football Team achieves it’s goals in 2012.
What are the goals? Near as I can tell, they are:
1. Reduce arrests
2. Pass drug tests
3. Beat Georgia Tech again
4. Win a bowl game, any bowl game
Does that sum it up? UGa really is the laughable losers of the SEC.
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USCe bowl record 5-12 SOS bowl record 8-10 at USCe 1-4
UGA bowl record 26-19-3 CMR bowl record 7-4
GT bowl record22-18 CPJ bowl record 0-4 GT has lost 7 straight bowls
GT and USCe the all time losers of the south, and it is truly hilarious
Rampdawg
May 30th, 2012
1:31 pm
@Steve Superior
At least we have balls, your whining proves that you have a vagina.
Nothing could be finer than whipping Ol’ Stevie and his vagina this OCT-O-BER
Nothing could be sweeter than whipping Ol’ Stevie,who has no peter this OCT-O-BER
Michael
May 30th, 2012
1:35 pm
I say do away with divisions….all 14 in conference. Each team keeps 2 traditional rival games and the other 7 conference games are rotated each year. Top two in final standings play SEC Championship.
evil empire
May 30th, 2012
1:36 pm
ole rampdawg seems to have an obsession towards coach spurrier’s groin area…seek help rampy…and stop posting nonsense…
georgiasouthernalum
May 30th, 2012
1:54 pm
Until UGA or any other East team wins the SEC the Chump game is a joke because it not the two best teams in SEC playing. When is CMR and UGA going to beat a top ten team……all UGA fan talk its just hot air until then.
DawginLex
May 30th, 2012
1:59 pm
Seriously Stupid & Ignorant Gator = SSIGator
DawginLex
May 30th, 2012
2:01 pm
georgiasouthern
The SEC East won the SECCG in 2002,2005,2006,2008 or 4 out of the last 10 years. 2 of those were UGA.
Not too quick on the uptick????
Burma Shave
May 30th, 2012
2:22 pm
Do-re-mi
Is all Richt’s about
Show him the money
Or he’s walking out
BURMA SHAVE
georgiasouthernalum
May 30th, 2012
2:28 pm
40% of the time. When was last time UGA beat a top ten team? Its just hot air….and just 1 NC….17-3 vs Fla.
SiddyBoy
May 30th, 2012
2:30 pm
Bill: Saying it’s pathetic is being kind. I can’t write here what I think of this idiot and many of his ideas. Retire to the sand box “Stevie Boy” !!!
cb
May 30th, 2012
2:44 pm
It doesn’t matter what Coach Spurrier recommends. Dawg fans have such a deep down hatred and jealousy of the man, that they will b@^%ch and moan about it and call him self serving. Spurrier and USC fans realize that any rule changes will not be back dated and we will not receive the 2011 SEC EAST title. UGA won it fair and square. But, bloggers like Bill love to act like that is Spurrier’s motive.. to get the 2011 SEC EAST title awarded to him because of his “crying”. Anywhoo, I have news for you Dawgs. 1) Spurrier isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. 2) No more Garcia and a more focused and disciplined QB is in charge. 3) Defense is still nasty with or without EJ. 4) Game is in Columbia 5) You have Murray as a QB and he will lose for the third time to the Chickens. 5) Marcus Lattimore is hungry.
Dawg Haus
May 30th, 2012
2:46 pm
Coach Saban makes a good point. Why should a team not care about a conference game just because its opponent is from the other division? The Braves don’t get more “win points” for beating the Mets than the Padres, do they?
truedawg
May 30th, 2012
2:55 pm
What a cry baby!! Ya know, I don’t remember LSU, Bama, Ark crying this in the 90’s and early 2000’s when The east was the beast!! Well you know if you can’t make noise by winning games make noise by crying. Auburn just beat the chickens plain and simple..and UGA beat the snot out of Auburn…USC laid and egg. Get over it Steve, remember, you never beat the Dawgs wearing a helmet, and you never will. Your glory days are over, and you need to move on…GO DAWGS!!!
McDawg
May 30th, 2012
2:58 pm
whats the story w/ Asher Allen retiring after 3 seasons?
DawginLex
May 30th, 2012
3:26 pm
Why would richt be jealous of a coach he owns?
4-3 versus SOS at the chicken coop
Florida could not beat Richt when he was at FSU, losing record
Richt left FSU and all the glory went with him
Spurrier should have booted his drunk QB off the team and beat auburn
Not anyone’s fault but his own
seabass
May 30th, 2012
3:27 pm
UGA did not embarrass itself near as bad as South Carolina did the previous year in the SEC championship!
UGAKev
May 30th, 2012
3:29 pm
First of all just because the west is better than the east right now doesn’t mean it’s going to be the same in 2018 or 2132. I remember the east being the place to be for a long time. I guarantee you the west will not dominate for long. Some of these comments are about as dumb as I have ever seen on here. I remember the same things being said about the east when Florida and Tennesse were dominating. According to some of you, we should just disband the SEC and have the east and west start their own conferences.
SSIgator
May 30th, 2012
3:54 pm
DawginLex -
“4-3 versus SOS at the chicken coop”
UGA vs. Spurrier at UF and SC – 5-14. Ouch. No wonder UGA hates Steve.
Steve Superior
May 30th, 2012
3:58 pm
“According to some of you, we should just disband the SEC and have the east and west start their own conferences.”
It wouldn’t help UGa.
duronimo
May 30th, 2012
4:09 pm
Spurrier is a good coach and a colorful character. He’s good for SEC football. His remarks through the years about UGA has been pretty accurate.
Ghost
May 30th, 2012
4:09 pm
Is there seriously someone from Georgia Southern Trash talking on a big boy board?
kingdaddy
May 30th, 2012
4:41 pm
Bill (the real) King,
This is just my opinion, but I think this is gonna be the year Spurrier actually pokes someones eye out when he throws that sun-visor of his. With all the TEARS IN HIS EYES, he can’t see as well, and we all know that UGA will make Stevie ONE MAD HEN THIS YEAR! BUG-GOCKKK…
kingdaddy
May 30th, 2012
4:52 pm
Most everybody in his Hometown (Johnson City, Tenn.) Hate poor little Stevies guts! If you mention his name, they are ready to fight! They love to fight anyway, but that’s besides the point. I lived there for two years and really loved the wonderful people.(except for little Stevie) Nobody else from Johnson City is such a whiney crybaby, but he was A KNOWN WHINER EVEN WHEN HE WAS AT DUKE. He actually got worse, BELIEVE IT OR NOT!!!
Lamar
May 30th, 2012
5:27 pm
All Spurrier wants is a format that helps him. If they changed it for this year, he would want it changed again when it don’t benefit him! Besides, all of a sudden he thinks SC HAS ARRIVED. WANT TO BET HE IS IN FOR A RUDE AWAKENING? WITH OLD CONNOR SHAW THROWING THE BALL, OLD SPURRIER MIGHT HAVE A HEART ATTACK WATCHING HIM! Me personally, I cant wait to shut him up this fall. I bet GA want turn it over 4 times for 21 points! This will in turn give them NO CHANCE IN HELL!
DawgInLex Eats Idiots Sandwiches
May 30th, 2012
5:49 pm
every day.He really does.
Paddy
May 30th, 2012
5:51 pm
Lowering the bar, I thought that was what the public school system was for.
LemonThrower
May 30th, 2012
6:02 pm
Dawg In Lex, play that same broken that you been playing for 30+ years!
Wilson Pickett
May 30th, 2012
6:38 pm
The bottom line is that Spurrier is like a 5-year-old, constantly crying out for attention. “Look at me! Look at what I’m doing!”
It’s kind of pathetic, really.
*************
The Bottom line is The Old Ball Coach owns your azz and has for 20 years. Now that is pathetic!
1980 Woof Woof
Rationale
May 30th, 2012
6:57 pm
Let’s say the records of UGA and USCe are reversed next year, and the rules are changed to meet his gripes. Then next year he could have won the SEC East by the record he possessed at the end of the year, with this years rules, but he lost it, because he had the rules changed to make him happier for this year. Then he would be crying just as loud next year as he is now. You play by the rules as they are, not what you wish they had been.
dogtime
May 30th, 2012
7:51 pm
Spurrier needs to quit his whining about losing the SEC east to the dogs. they choked against auburn and arkansas and were lucky to beat Ga.
LogicalUS
May 30th, 2012
7:53 pm
Looks like Spurrier’s comments have hit a little too close to the mark with Bill. Pretty upset there Bill seeing Spurrier’s SC club doing to UGA what Spurrier’s UF squad did for a decade, huh. It stinks.
But reality is that SC has been the class of the SEC East for the past two seasons and every indication is that UGA fans better get out their SEC West pom-poms again for 2012.
After SC handles UGA easily in Columbia, the SEC East title will be decided at Baton Rouge in October. So repeat after me Bill…. Gueax Tigers rah, rah, rah,
Fools Gold
May 30th, 2012
8:42 pm
Carolina will make it three in a row over the dawgs anyway. FIRE BOBO!
evil empire
May 30th, 2012
8:52 pm
carolina plays LSU and Arky…a lot tougher than buffalo and gasouthern…
DawgNole
May 30th, 2012
9:02 pm
seabass
May 30th, 2012
3:27 pm
UGA did not embarrass itself near as bad as South Carolina did the previous year in the SEC championship!
____________________
Not so sure about that. They both stunk it up pretty badly.
Lakedawg
May 30th, 2012
9:03 pm
Evil, How tough is Wofford, UAB, and E. Carolina?? Sure that was a slip you meant to include in the chickens schedule.
DawgNole
May 30th, 2012
9:05 pm
evil empire
May 30th, 2012
8:52 pm
carolina plays LSU and Arky…a lot tougher than buffalo and gasouthern…
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Carolina also plays UAB and Wofford. They may not be tougher than anybody.
KJ
May 30th, 2012
9:38 pm
You really could time your watch by SSIGator and Evil Empire getting sand in their vag every time their hero Stevie Boy gets criticized. Stevie will never get over getting his azz pounded by UGA back in his playing days, and SSIGator and Evil Empire will never get over, well, being pathetic losers in general.
Old Dog
May 30th, 2012
9:53 pm
Lots of trash talking against South Carolina here. I just hope we win the game against them and avoid a repeat of last year.
Old Dog
May 30th, 2012
10:00 pm
Steve Spurrier has a QB this year that could give him another victory over the dawgs – his name is Aaron Murray.
Dawg Goneit
May 30th, 2012
10:02 pm
Made you write about him, didn’t he?
Dawg Goneit
May 30th, 2012
10:04 pm
Heck, Old Dog… We’re tied for first place right now!
GATA!!!
RED DOG 77
May 30th, 2012
11:29 pm
Man, Oh, Man……………..Do I ever want to beat Spurrier in the worst way this year…………..Come-on Dawgs !!!!!…………….GATA…………….Beat Spurrier, run the table, then put the fear of God in Alabama or LSU or whomever in the SEC Championship game…………GO DOGS !!!!
SSIgator
May 30th, 2012
11:32 pm
old dog -
drink more kool-aid
SHUT UP SPURRIER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 30th, 2012
11:44 pm
AIN’T GONNA HAPPEN IF YOU CAN’T WIN YOUR SCHEDULE EAST AND WEST YOU DO NOT DESERVE THE SEC TITLE /FORGET IT SPURRIR CRAWL BACK IN YOUR CHICKEN COOP AND FLAP YOUR TELLOW CHICKEN WINGS! GO DAWGS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Get Real!
May 31st, 2012
12:17 am
Spurrier is 3-4 against UGA while at USC. Last year he got beaten all over the field with the exception of the score board, and even the Ole Ball Coach himself said he shouldn’t have won the game. Not exactly what I call dominating. Keep talking chickens, there’s a storm brewing and it’s heading straight for Columbia, SC on October 6.
Energy Vampire
May 31st, 2012
7:22 am
WAAAAH. You sound like a titty baby.
Energy Vampire
May 31st, 2012
7:23 am
Also, you misspelled blog.
JB
May 31st, 2012
7:30 am
Carolina has a 100 year football history and an empty trophy case. This is their 15 minutes of fame the last couple of years….and Spurrier is close to eating oatmeal and wearing sweaters in July. Not a story.
Covers Dixie Like The Dew
May 31st, 2012
8:06 am
If only division games counted in the NFL,
the 8-8 (5-1 division) Philadelphia Eagles would have won the NFC East instead of the 9-7 (3-3 division) N.Y. Giants
(who won the Super Bowl).
DIT
May 31st, 2012
8:13 am
Saban said it best. And I also agree that Spurrier is now just looking for attention. What if MLB went by the same rule. Then why play the other games. Funny, I did not hear Spurrier come up with his “brain child” a few years back when UGA was playing Alabama & LSU.
I admit, the guy is a heck of a coach, but what a whiner!