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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bdawg
May 30th, 2012
10:58 am
FIRST!!!
bdawg
May 30th, 2012
11:00 am
And I think it’s an awful idea.
Ssidawg
May 30th, 2012
11:08 am
Spurrier wins this week’s “Just Shut Up”‘ Award.
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some sense
May 30th, 2012
11:11 am
Unfortunately Coach Spurrier “owns” UGA right now, just as hed did at Florida. Under these circumstances any reply Dawg fans make is playing right into his hands.
UGA Insider
May 30th, 2012
11:17 am
Under Spurriers plan there would no need to play any SEC East vs West games. In unrelated news USCe reached out to South Carolina State to see if they could schedule an extra game each year.
The chickens are pathetic as usual.
Nothing Could Be Finer
May 30th, 2012
11:24 am
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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Better than a Ga Dogs fan crying about what Richt is NOT doing.
Get ready for three-in-a-row in October.
Mike Bobo 17 INT
May 30th, 2012
11:24 am
Spurrier can say whatever he wants, he owns this program. Someone used the term pathetic, look at the UGA scheduled for 2012, as compared to Alabama….now were are talking pathetic.
ClinchPanther
May 30th, 2012
11:25 am
You hit the nail on the head. He isn’t getting the attention that he craves so he tries to get it any way he can. Even his one liners are not funny any longer, he has to wait so long for it not to apply to him when he says it, it just makes him look the fool.
GTBob
May 30th, 2012
11:26 am
Who really cares? The SEC east representative in the SEC title game is just one last exhibition game for the West champion before they play in the title game. Without Tim Tebow, the east is pretty much useless. If the 4 team playoff doesn’t have conference champions then the SEC championship won’t have any relevance anyways.
Newman
May 30th, 2012
11:28 am
The Evil Genius strikes again!
Mike Bobo 17 INT
May 30th, 2012
11:30 am
Everyone can sit here and get excited about D1-A college football, but until a 16 team playoff system is implemented, this is not a sport, but a popularity contest. These conference commissioners, including Slive of the SEC are just protecting their turf, and don’t want their apple cart turned upside down.
The BCS sucks, it’s broken and is a total ripoff to college football fans across this nation.
Steve Superior
May 30th, 2012
11:31 am
The Bulldogs had no business playing in the SECCG and embarrassing themselves like that.
Mike Bobo 17 INT
May 30th, 2012
11:33 am
What does it really matter anyway, other than Florida, nothing of importance resides in the SEC East. Alabama, LSU and Arkansas as of lately are the only ones making any noise. If Alabama and/or LSU were in the Big 12, everyone would be talking about the Big 12 vs. the SEC.
Go with a 16 team playoff system, 11 conference champions and 5 at large determined by computer and/or writes and coaches poll. This would provide a true champion.
As I said before, go ahead and waste your time and money on D1-A football, with no playoff system, it is not a sport.
Nothing Could Be Finer
May 30th, 2012
11:34 am
Meanwhile, Spurrier just swooped into Stephenson High School and plucked another stud for the 2013 class.
DawgNole
May 30th, 2012
11:35 am
Steve Superior
May 30th, 2012
11:31 am
The Bulldogs had no business playing in the SECCG and embarrassing themselves like that.
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Kinda like USCe did the year before vs. Auburn.
Eddie
May 30th, 2012
11:35 am
Interesting and I think uncharacteristic for Spurrier … In essence, he is saying that he can’t beat the West teams and therefore, can’t win the SEC. It’s not only too hard, it’s not doable. So, he would like to make things a bit easier on his team.
Well, welcome to the big leagues. I thought you liked playing in the toughest conference in the land. Every damn team is tough and can end a teams dreams. Man up. Tell your team to man up. Really sad state of affairs trying to lower the bar.
UGA Insider
May 30th, 2012
11:41 am
All USCe had to do was beat a bad Auburn team at home and they couldn’t do it. A few weeks later UGA had the same pressure and trounced AU 45-7. The chickens could NOT take care of business as usual. Please remember, they are the lovable losers of the SEC…. Remember the season they started 5-0 then lost their next 7. That was a classic USCe season for sure.
swimdawg68
May 30th, 2012
11:52 am
Hey Steve Spurrier (probably just a SC fan), I guess SC didn’t embarrass themselves the previous year in that game against Auburn. Great showing!! Auburn won 56 to 17. SC has been and always will be generally not on the level with UGA, FLA, and TENN. in the east. Recently they have been competetive but in years past not so. They will have a good team this year, but so will UGA. I look for UGA to win in the fall and not give the game away like last year.
Aaron Murray
May 30th, 2012
11:54 am
Bill, the only thing wrong with your article is that it is REALLY pathetic. Thanks for pointing out that old age has not wised the little brat out of Spurrier.
DawginLex
May 30th, 2012
11:56 am
To coach Spurrier:
It’s real simple son.
From the time you played Georgia last year, you played common opponents of Georgia except for Arkansas.
You lost to Arkansas
If that was your only other loss, because of beating Georgia head to head, you still win the East.
Then, because of your silly loyalty to a drunk QB who should have been kicked off the team earlier, you lost to AUBURN AT HOME. We beat auburn 45-7 and could have scored 70 on them.
YOU LOST TO AUBURN
That is not our fault
That is not the SEC’s fault
It is your fault
Man up and quit whining
Sam
May 30th, 2012
11:58 am
There was a time when SEC teams played one another and the game did not count in the SEC standings.
Gman 84
May 30th, 2012
11:58 am
Just amazing that all of a sudden USCjr’s perceived scheduling inequity is justification for essentially breaking the conference apart. They have a couple of decent years and think they need to remake the conference in their own image. If they don’t like SEC rules, they could always go back to being an independent. They’d miss us a hell of a lot more than we’d miss them.
Good god, it’s not like USC was undefeated. if they’d won their games or if they even beat an average Auburn team AT HOME they wouldn’t say a word about this. It’s not like Auburn going undefeated and being voted out of the MNC-they had a legit beef.
Would be funny if the SEC adopted this misguided proposal and a few years from now the scheduling tables were turned and USCjr screwed themselves.
Guess we have to forgive USCjr, they are so new to being relevant that they really don’t understand how things work. It is gratifying to know that they still can’t sleep at night 6 months after losing out on the bid to the SECCG.
swimdawg68
May 30th, 2012
11:59 am
Hey GTBob, when was the last time the winner of the ACC Championship game played for the National Championship? Talk about no relevance, GT has none and will have none as long as you continue to run that high school offense and put a weak defense on the field. You can only play Duke once a season.
AJ
May 30th, 2012
12:03 pm
Sam, there was a time when players didn’t wear helmets
Steve Superior
May 30th, 2012
12:05 pm
Remember, Auburn had a tight end for a quarterback. Didn’t Auburn lose to Clemson in addition to UGa? Didn’t West Virginia just score another TD against Clemson?
Bottom line is the laughable losers of the SEC wear red and black.
Columbus Dawg
May 30th, 2012
12:16 pm
Looks like there are already at least two blithering idiots on the blog, this clown that calls himself Mike Bobo and some interceptions?, and GTBob. I think the interception clown is a Saban crotch worshiper, and this Bob guy, well.
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. I realize that most of the idiots that post on this blog are two things, not old enough to have developed a working brain, and most don’t know crap about college football, and have never played football at any level. Okay, that’s three things.
As far as the playoff thing goes, I agree that if they are set on four teams, then Conference Champs only in the hunt for the title game. Alabama should not have been in the title game last season, any more than Georgia in 2007. I have been a Dawg all my life, and have supported the SEC teams in their bowl games most of the time, except Florida and Auburn occasionally, but there are other conferences and teams that deserve a shot as well. It seems that everything in America has become self serving, no matter what it is. Damn shame.
Aaron Murray
May 30th, 2012
12:16 pm
Dana Holgerson has a freaky skullett.
SSIgator
May 30th, 2012
12:17 pm
“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.”
Would that be the same Mark “I can win games – Just not big games” Richt that was singing a similar song after the 2007 regular season? Maybe he is a gentleman, but he sure is a hypocrite. Oh well, maybe 1980 will come back around again one day.
Aaron Murray
May 30th, 2012
12:17 pm
Seriously, it’s like clown hair.
GTBob
May 30th, 2012
12:18 pm
Hey GTBob, when was the last time the winner of the ACC Championship game played for the National Championship?
I have never denied that the ACC is horrible and should consider moving to Division 3. Unfortunately the SEC east is pretty much just as bad. There really should be a new split in college football where the nationally relevant teams can play each other without worrying about useless teams getting in the way. Nobody cares about watching UGA or South Carolina lose their conference championship game by 30+ points.
Aaron Murray
May 30th, 2012
12:18 pm
He should name his offense the “Skullett-T winged DERP spread”….seriously, weird.
Aaron Murray
May 30th, 2012
12:19 pm
I would kill it in the Skullett Spread….
Pitbull
May 30th, 2012
12:22 pm
Since Steve nicknamed the UF stadium the Swamp, why hasn’t he nicknamed the SC stadium the Chickencoop?
Then all of Crybaby Steve’s comments could be Chickenpoop from the Chickencoop.
It even rhymes. They could write a new fight song.
evil empire
May 30th, 2012
12:24 pm
good to see the blog bully dawginlex is awake…Man up and quit whining…might want to follow your own advise…
What the.....
May 30th, 2012
12:26 pm
It wasn’t that long ago that the SEC west looked like the SEC east of today. UT will be back-too much money and power to stay down forever. UF will be back-sooner than most realize. Mizzou will be as good if not better than A&M. Arky will return to the pack. UA and LSU will be strong for the forseeable future. A few years back though UA and LSU struggled while UF was the class of the conference. The balance of power between the 2 divisions didn’t seem to be a national crisis then. What has changed?
Get Real
May 30th, 2012
12:28 pm
Lose to Auburn…pay for Auburn. The rest of the world doesn’t owe you a solution to make up for your annual choke jobs
SSIgator
May 30th, 2012
12:30 pm
evil empire -
“good to see the blog bully dawginlex is awake…Man up and quit whining…might want to follow your own advise…”
Sadly, Nancy can’t “man up”, but she can be very witchy sometimes. Poor darlin’
GTBoob
May 30th, 2012
12:32 pm
Hi, I’m GTBob’s imaginary friend with benefits. Lock your doors because here’s the latest on the Internet on one of Tech’s most distinguished alumni!
Reuben Houston was a cornerback for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team from 2002 to 2005. On June 22, 2005, he was arrested for allegedly conspiring to distribute 94 pounds of marijuana worth $60,000. Houston was subsequently suspended from the Tech football team, but was reinstated following a judge’s order that Houston must be allowed to play football at Tech. Houston was sentenced on April 4, 2006 to nine months probation as part of a plea deal.
In December 2006 Houston was arrested in Florida for possession of over 20 grams of Marijuana. He began a year-and-one-month prison sentence in June 2007 and was released in May 2008.
Since September 2009, Reuben Houston has been on the run from U.S. Marshalls when he brought a gun to the home of a family whose child had gotten into some sort of a fight with Houston’s daughter.He is now on the run from the U.S. Marshals.
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Houston is wanted for making terrorist threats and aggravated assault with a weapon.
He is also charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon because of 2005 charges connected to a marijuana distribution ring.
Anyone with information can call the Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force at 770-508-2500.
Rampdawg
May 30th, 2012
12:32 pm
Steve Superior
May 30th, 2012
11:31 am
The Bulldogs had no business playing in the SECCG and embarrassing themselves like that.
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…and if you hadn’t embarrassed youself against Auburn at home you, well nevermind, you already know.
george
May 30th, 2012
12:33 pm
“what favors Spurrier and South Carolina this season might not work in their favor in the future.” HA HA HA HA HA this coming from the team that has the easeist schedule in sec history this year. Amazing just amazing. This is a pathetic article but I guess if my team got dominated by a coach for so long I would feel the way.
george
May 30th, 2012
12:34 pm
same way
george
May 30th, 2012
12:36 pm
are you pups still hurt over spurriers best quote thus far. ” I always liked playing Georgia the second week of the season because you could always count on them having several players suspended.” HA HA HA HA HA the truth hurts.
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.
Dawg Tired
May 30th, 2012
12:46 pm
While Spurrier’s idea is obviously nonsensical, the really surprising part is the apparent inability of the ‘ole ball coach to see how this idea is not necessarily even in South Carolina’s best interests. After all, the last two years not withstanding, UGA beat’s South Carolina more often than not. Now I certainly understand why their fans can’t understand this, but I always thought Spurrier was a pretty smart guy.
Stephen
May 30th, 2012
12:47 pm
It can be wrapped up pretty simply – Spurrier is as Spurrier does. Classic Spurrier provides plenty of amunition why not to like the ol’ ball coach each year. It is evident that he is a forward thinker when it comes to constructing his team and recruiting, but when it comes to things outside of his control, he has a limited view and a lack of self control, hence the baby-rattle that we often see displayed on national TV. However, this seems all to easy to spot – Most coaches should get the premise on why teams should be balanced and play/count both sides in developing, in the end, a true SEC champion team – and as Richt said the schedule changes. Spurriers latest play seems a bit desperate. Kind of like when you are squeezing the lemon for the last bit of juice. It makes me believe that he can see the end of the road not too far off, and wants one last advantage before he hangs up the ol’ baby-rattle and retires.
bubba4dawgs
May 30th, 2012
12:49 pm
What is Spurrier smoking under that visor? I like Sabin, Richt, Muschamp and Slive’s opinion about why play a game that does not count! Heck, Spurrier, you already get the chance to pick non-conference games that don’t count. Just make sure you pick easy ones to make your record look better. Everyone else does! SEC should be total SEC, that’s what makes it the greatest conference in the country! Each team has to bring their total “A” game each week and this is what makes the SEC stronger than any other conference, besides having the best athletes found in the southeast! I’d just like to see commitments by players stick instead of coaches persuading players to flip-flop to their team. That boils down to non-ethical behavior and teaches the player involved that his word doesn’t matter. It kinda makes you feel that he will go on thru life with his word not meaning anything and it certainly reflects in a bad way toward the coach becoming the robber-baron. The best at this seems to be Nick Sabin! He should win the championship every year at this rate unless the other coaches can become better salesmen!
Pitbull
May 30th, 2012
1:00 pm
Steve Spurrier: just more chickenpoop from the chickencoop.
SC got to the SECCG once and got beat by Auburn like a red headed stepchild – and now Chicken fans all across the state of SC talk trash. Or rather, they cackle.
The SC Chickens will look more like Sitting Hens this year and perhaps that should be their new team name – the South Carolina Sitting Hens.
When they play Auburn or LSU, their kickoff cheer could be:
“I thought I saw a puddy tat.”
Steve Superior
May 30th, 2012
1:14 pm
Pitbull: just more bull from the trash pit.
UGa got to the SECCG once and got beat by LSU like a rented mule – and now puppy fans all across hell and half of Georgia talk trash. Or rather, they wimper.
The UGa puppies will look more like Whipped Curs this year and perhaps that should be their new team name – the Georgia Whipped Curs.
When they play Alabama or LSU, their kickoff cheer could be:
“Ooooooh Balls, lick ‘em, Aye! Aye! Aye! (or whatever crying sound a whipped cur makes)”
Marion
May 30th, 2012
1:15 pm
Seems I remember this before: 2007 season – UGA did not win their own conference so they should not be voted high enough to be in the championship picture; 2011 season – Alabama did not win their conference, but they still deserve to be the team to play for a championship. What would Spurrier say if the situation had been switched
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.
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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…
_____________________
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!
B.Beaver
May 31st, 2012
8:20 am
You can’t make chicken salad out of chicken ****. Just sayin.
RedandBlackDAWG
May 31st, 2012
8:29 am
George,
You sure do research don’t you? UGA is not on suspension for paying half the hotels in S.C. to put up their players in luxury suites. UGA is not second in the Fulmer cup in standing for 2012 so far. If S.C. disciplined their player in line, with the severity of the offenses they commit, CMR could rightly say that about S.C., but he is too much of a gentleman, to do that and lower himself to Spurrier like standards. You, on the other hand, seem to have no problem, floating on the bottom, with your childish remarks, that serve very little purpose. You are just another clown that Spurrier seeks to amuse and like a lot of your kind, you are indeed , easily amused.
DIT
May 31st, 2012
8:35 am
If UGA beats SC this coming fall all the whining will stop. Beat SC, Simple as that!
reddog
May 31st, 2012
8:35 am
Your best analysis of Spurrier you have ever made. Good job!
nate from detroit
May 31st, 2012
8:43 am
Spurrier is a self-serving, whiny, POS that doesn’t do anything or say anything unless he feels as if it is going to benefit him or bring attention to himself. It wouldn’t suprise me if now that his proposal didn’t get passed by the league, little Stevie threatens to hold his breath until the league gives him what he wants. It makes you wonder if Stevie ever listened to his daddy’s sermons and teaching. I doubt seriously that any preacher would preach or teach from the pulpit that little Stevie’s behavior (self-serving, whiny, pout when you don’t get your way) is the proper way to behave.
Dancing on high with the incomparable Ballini Sisters
May 31st, 2012
9:10 am
Spurrier is worth listening to, and people do listen to him and the other top coaches in the SEC.
No one listens to Richt, since he is – at best – a third rate coach of a mediocre team.
JB
May 31st, 2012
9:28 am
Spurrier is a good coach who is always working the refs and the system for any advantage. Richt said it best. We know what the rules are going in and we just follow them. Spurrier just needs to worry about which $10 luxury hotel to house his players in and figure out a way for his team to quit disappearing in 3 or 4 games a year.
evillurks
May 31st, 2012
9:30 am
Its so funny to read this THUGA homer writing about Spurrier’s idea being a bad one since it’s THUGA who gets to have the easiest SEC schedule in history not one, but TWO years in a row while Spurrier and team has to play one of the more difficult SEC schedules.
It doesn’t matter, just like last year with that cupcake schedule…THUGA won’t sniff an SECC. Then it will be all “Fire Richt” afterwards. (And they probably will).
JB
May 31st, 2012
9:32 am
Third rate coach? You need to but a Lindsey’s football magazine and turn to the SEC coach’s scoreboard page. If you care about facts, the only thing missing from Richt’s record is a NC, which is very important, but Richt is 1st and 2nd in the SEC in just about EVERY category.
JB
May 31st, 2012
9:35 am
evillurks……………..Just tell us what Carolina has won in football. SEC East titles? SEC titles? National Championships?………………………….I thought so…………….crickets.
kingdaddy
May 31st, 2012
9:41 am
E.lurk
Uga was 3-1 against SECw. S.C. was 1-2. Your schedule seemed harder because AUBURN KICKED YOUR ASSES IN COLUMBIA! Funny I think UGA BEAT THEM BY ABOUT 6 TOUCHDOWNS! So you played Arkansas, we played LSU YOU IDIOT! You come on here pretending like you played Alabama, LSU and Arkansas. You and your coach are whiners so stick your thumb back in your mouth and quict you’re blubbering…
nate from detroit
May 31st, 2012
9:45 am
I also love all the references to how easy our schedule was last yr. and how easy it will be this yr. The implication is that we don’t deserve the East because of our schedule. I guess one can assume the next yr that we have to play Auburn, Alabama, and LSU in the same yr. that we should be given the East title no matter what our record is because we played a harder schedule.
The people that think this way are the same ones that believe that we bribed the conference office to make our shedule this way. These same people also believe Elvis is still alive, that the moon landing was staged in the New Mexico desert, the 9-11 attacks were carried out by our government…
We play the schedule in front of us just like any other school. Some years it will be weaker, some stronger.
kingdaddy
May 31st, 2012
9:51 am
Evil lurks
What are you about 14 or 15 years old. What kind of STUPID NAME IS EVIL LURKS? Is that supposed to be scary to grown men? LOL, your just a wet behind the ears kid who needs a real spanking. If youre older than 15, you need to grow up or quit posting on an adult blog. Go find a Disney blog, maybe you can scare some children with you childish bs…
kingdaddy
May 31st, 2012
9:55 am
Nate
You must have scared the little hit n run artist away. My guess is he just wet his pants.lol…
minnesota dawg
May 31st, 2012
10:09 am
Bottom line if you are in the SEC is to win no matter if it is the east or west! It’s really no longer a true Southeastern Conference because we are including teams outside the SEC now.
JB
May 31st, 2012
10:11 am
Here’s what I tell Spurrier. You want to play in Atlanta….just beat the folks you are told to play. Next question.
JB
May 31st, 2012
10:13 am
I was in Columbia on business about two weeks ago……….i stopped to get gas………They had some Carolina tee shirts for sale that said ” WHY NOT US”……….. The lettering was faded and they were half price.
G8R GRAD
May 31st, 2012
10:14 am
Good luck to the Dawgs in the NCAA Men’s Baseball Tournament!
Wait, you’re not . . . . , oh.
(awkward!)
JB
May 31st, 2012
10:15 am
OK, I’ll explain the joke……………When Spurrier was hired at Carolina…at the news conference, he made that phrase his battle cry….for those who missed it…..Go Dawgs…..
DIT
May 31st, 2012
10:16 am
Man, I think evil lurks just got body slammed by a couple of you. Too funny!
Palmetto
May 31st, 2012
10:25 am
We’ll get back to you after we win another baseball championship. It must hurt not to have anything to do this time of year but whine about what Carolina’s coach is doing or saying….ouch!
rsh
May 31st, 2012
10:30 am
Hey Bill King, Did this article come out because of Spurrier’s idea or his owning UGA’s ass since he arrived in Gainesville back in the eraly 1990’s? People always laugh & scoff at the ole ball coach and his crazy ideas… but in most cases, he turns out to be right.
When he first got to UF, they were under probation, along with the UF administration & NCAA they were trying to figure out the appropriate punishment. Prohibiting UF to win the SEC Championship was on the table as punishment for the previous coaching staff’s violations. Coach Spurrier told the UF administration that he thought the Gators had a good shot to win it all. The administration basically told him, “We’ve NEVER won the SEC Championship here… so, we’re going to take that punishment & move on from this.” Spurrier & the Gators went on to win the SEC that year.
Spurrier also came into the SEC with everyone telling him that teams couldn’t pass the ball and win the conference championship. You had to run the ball & play great defense. 7 SEC Championships & 1 National Championship later, people look at that quite differently now.
Back in the early 1990’s, Spurrier was the first SEC Coach to call for an NCAA playoff. As a so-called “sportswriter,”…have you heard all the talk recently about a four team playoff?!?
Last year, he had some other coaches at the SEC meeting sign onto a plan to pay players out of their own pockets. It’s now being discussed and considered by the SEC & NCAA.
And, yes, if they add two or more teams to the SEC in the next few years, which by all indications is going to happen eventually, there will indeed be division champions based on division records.
In terms of creativity, on the field as well as off, he’s done more for SEC football than anyone before or since him; and that includes Bear Bryant. Just wish his 14-5 record against Georgia wouldn’t affect your writing so much.
He’s always been fifteen or twenty years ahead of his time and he still is. Hopefully, one of these days, you & the rest of college football will catch up.
JB
May 31st, 2012
10:31 am
Palmetto, Next time in Athens, stop by our Athletic building and look at our trophy’s on display….. And then go look at ya’lls………….and get back to me.
@ Palmetto
May 31st, 2012
10:34 am
Well I guess being that you have not won anything significant in football you might as well talk about baseball. Remind me, how many outright SEC championships SC has won in football? How many NC in football?
That’s what I thought; now, go back to dreaming because that’s all you have when it comes to your football program.
It must really tick you off that no matter the mediocrity of the UGA football program in the past 2 years, y’all are STILL worse off than they are. Sucks to be Carolina!
NDAWG
May 31st, 2012
10:36 am
How many national championships does South Carolina have……………………..
harold
May 31st, 2012
10:39 am
SPURRIER IS JUST A GREAT COACH. HE IS THE BEST COACH SOUTH CAROLINA EVER HAD.
MR's Preacher
May 31st, 2012
10:43 am
What a load of horse hockey. Spurrier isn’t looking for attention, he’s just making a point. Spurrier doesn’t need to look for attention, when you have his record attention follows you…Unlike a certan member of my flock. USC beat everyone in the East, they were the best team. As to MR, he’ll follow the crowd.
MR's Preacher
May 31st, 2012
10:43 am
Hey NDawg, good point. USC has one less than UGA.
kingdaddy
May 31st, 2012
10:44 am
rsh
Spurrier is really just tired. He’s tired of Colimbia. He’s tired of South Carolina. He’s tired of the lame-crocks. He misses UF.He misses winning tittles. He misses the attention he used to get when he had a decent team and he misses his MOJO. His best days are gone and HE KNOWS IT! He’s just a sad ol blubbering, whiney, crotchety crybaby, and S.C. fans are the biggest whiners on the planet! Did I mention the possibility or little stevies retirement after he loses to UGA this year???
@ HAROLD
May 31st, 2012
10:45 am
His being a great coach is not what is in question here. Please keep up with the conversation. He’s trying to change the league playing rules that is applied not just for all of college football but the other sport programs as well.
Spurrier is just thinking about this year because he knows that he WILL lose 2 to 3 games by the West and it’s 50/50 against UGA. If the tables are turned we are not even having this discussion because the whiner would be finding something else to whine about.
No one is questioning his coaching abilitites or what he did agaisnt UGA when he was at Florida. Keep up or go back to your mom!
kingdaddy
May 31st, 2012
10:49 am
Just another Preacher endowed with SPIRIT, BUT NO SUBSTANCE!!!
Flo-Ri-Duh
May 31st, 2012
10:49 am
That’s why they call themselves the GameCrocks. UGA always has more talent than the GameCrocks. Sometimes, like last year, they CHOKE when the game is on the line. Same thing happened against Michigan State. Why would you stay with a field goal kicker that misses 14 field goals in one season?
MR's Preacher
May 31st, 2012
10:50 am
Kingdaddy, please shut up. You make UGA fans look like stupid losers. “We played LSU” ? Not in the freaking regular season which DECIDEDS who goes to the game you moron. And “we beat Aub by 6 TDs” Yea,…But USC beat our ass at our own stadium. Damn son, you’re just dumb
Pitbull
May 31st, 2012
11:06 am
Spurrier has hated Georgia ever since UF was rated number 1 in the nation and Steve was the future Heisman winner but when the Gators got to Jacksonville, the
Bulldogs beat the Gators and knocked them out of the national championship picture. Georgia defensive end George Patton spent more time in the Florida backfield than Spurrier did. What a great game and a great win for Georgia. Steve has never gotton over it and I hope it eats at him until he goes to that big Chickencoop in the sky. Steve, no matter how much you hate us, you can’t go back and win that game. It was 50 years ago.
kingdaddy
May 31st, 2012
11:07 am
Preacher
Please don’t let me be the reason you lose your religion.lol, S.C. 1-2 vs. SECw, UGA 3-1 vs.SECw! I probably know more about the BIBLE than you too! Please try not to lose your temper loser, remember, you’re supposed to love me. XXXs & OOOs…
kingdaddy
May 31st, 2012
11:13 am
Preach
we gave the game to SC, you didn’t win it, but it still counted as a loss. WE DESTROYED AN AUBURN TEAM THAT BEAT YOU AT YOUR HOME! SPIN THAT YOU FAKER! A real preacher wouldn’t lose his temper on a sports blog! WWJD???
UGADOC (lL. H. Ingram, Ph.D.)
May 31st, 2012
11:14 am
Stastically speaking, Murray, Richt, and Bobo are known quantities. The records they’ve produced are immutable. How does one change the win-lose equasion in the most efficient and productive manner using this information? Play AM the first half, then bench him. .
Alphare
May 31st, 2012
11:30 am
Spurrier is a great coach. He always leads his team to beat UGA whether he is FL or USC, good recruits or average recruits.
Actually his team beats FL 2 years in a row. Can UGA claim that in the last 20 years?
With that in mind, why would anybody trust some UGA fans’ intelligence over a legendary coach like Spurrier’s.
Here is the current SEC formula:
1. inner-division game is the most important, count as 1
2. cross-division game is the 2nd most important, count as 1
3. out-of-conference game is the least important, count as 0
Spurrier proposed formula:
1. inner-division game is the most important, count as 1
2. cross-division game is the 2nd most important, count as 0
3. out-of-conference game is the least important, count as 0
If you don’t like Spurrier’s formula, you may come up with something like:
1. inner-division game is the most important, count as 1
2. cross-division game is the 2nd most important, count as 1/2
3. out-of-conference game is the least important, count as 1/4
Spurrier is Spurrier, Spurrier is good with Maths too. He knows UGA got into SECCG with a technicality, while most UGA fans have no clue.
kingdaddy
May 31st, 2012
11:48 am
Alphare
Don’t you read the news? Just like you, ittle stevie was REJECTED, LAUGHED AT!!! I tell you what, come back next year, and we’ll talk about it. LMAO, y’all make this too easy! One thing I will say about the lame-crocks, just like a brat, you think if you cry long enough, someone will listen to you. Have you tried holding your breath yet???
Jeremy Wallace
May 31st, 2012
11:53 am
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!
SSIGator… Stevie Boy’s just never got over his Heisman year(pat pat) when he might have won the national title(as a player) if only he’d have beaten UGA. Even beating them once as a player might have given him a little less of an obsession.
GTBob …You’re funny.In that you think you matter.At all.
george
May 31st, 2012
12:03 pm
red and black dawg- thanks for the dumbest post of the day. Suspension??? Maybe probation. How many major NCAA infractions does uga have? and USC? I think you need to do some research sir. And for A uga fan to talk about another program and their arrrestes????? HA HA HA HA HA HA HA now i have heard it all. Remind me again how many people are suspended for first few games. Oh ya half your damn defense.
Alphare
May 31st, 2012
12:07 pm
kingdaddy,
you may have the word “king” in your blog name, but why would I trust your judgement over a legendary coach like Spurrier’s?
If you can lead some teams to beat UGA or FL for 20 years, I will listen to you too.
MR's Preacher
May 31st, 2012
12:41 pm
Kingdaddy, WGAS about the west games. I was just pointing out the stupidity of saying “we played LSU” And as I remember. USC took the ball 70+ yards in our own stadium running right down our throats to win the game. Make all the whiny excuses you want “we gave it to them” yea, and they freaking took it LOL. As they have 3 of the last 4. Spurrier looks as if he’s starting another streak. Damn, just as we look as if we can break the UF curse, The Ole Ball coach gets another started.
SEC Fan
May 31st, 2012
1:32 pm
“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.”
Where exactly is this coming from? We’re comparing COACH vrs. COACH (not team vrs. team). As DawgInLex’s 1st sentence stated: “Why would Richt be jealous of a coach he owns?”
SEC Fan
May 31st, 2012
1:39 pm
“nate from detroit
May 31st, 2012
9:45 am
I also love all the references to how easy our schedule was last yr. and how easy it will be this yr. The implication is that we don’t deserve the East because of our schedule. I guess one can assume the next yr that we have to play Auburn, Alabama, and LSU in the same yr. that we should be given the East title no matter what our record is because we played a harder schedule.
The people that think this way are the same ones that believe that we bribed the conference office to make our shedule this way. These same people also believe Elvis is still alive, that the moon landing was staged in the New Mexico desert, the 9-11 attacks were carried out by our government…
We play the schedule in front of us just like any other school. Some years it will be weaker, some stronger.”
Obviously they forget that little fact you ended your post with.
SEC Fan
May 31st, 2012
1:42 pm
“UGA: The Junkyard Blawg Spurrier makes another bid for attention
10:54 am May 30, 2012, by Bill King
“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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..145 comments Add your commentB.Beaver
May 31st, 2012
8:20 am
You can’t make chicken salad out of chicken ****. Just sayin.
LinkReport this comment.RedandBlackDAWG
May 31st, 2012
8:29 am
George,
You sure do research don’t you? UGA is not on suspension for paying half the hotels in S.C. to put up their players in luxury suites. UGA is not second in the Fulmer cup in standing for 2012 so far. If S.C. disciplined their player in line, with the severity of the offenses they commit, CMR could rightly say that about S.C., but he is too much of a gentleman, to do that and lower himself to Spurrier like standards. You, on the other hand, seem to have no problem, floating on the bottom, with your childish remarks, that serve very little purpose. You are just another clown that Spurrier seeks to amuse and like a lot of your kind, you are indeed , easily amused.
LinkReport this comment.DIT
May 31st, 2012
8:35 am
If UGA beats SC this coming fall all the whining will stop. Beat SC, Simple as that!
LinkReport this comment.reddog
May 31st, 2012
8:35 am
Your best analysis of Spurrier you have ever made. Good job!
LinkReport this comment.nate from detroit
May 31st, 2012
8:43 am
Spurrier is a self-serving, whiny, POS that doesn’t do anything or say anything unless he feels as if it is going to benefit him or bring attention to himself. It wouldn’t suprise me if now that his proposal didn’t get passed by the league, little Stevie threatens to hold his breath until the league gives him what he wants. It makes you wonder if Stevie ever listened to his daddy’s sermons and teaching. I doubt seriously that any preacher would preach or teach from the pulpit that little Stevie’s behavior (self-serving, whiny, pout when you don’t get your way) is the proper way to behave.
LinkReport this comment.Dancing on high with the incomparable Ballini Sisters
May 31st, 2012
9:10 am
Spurrier is worth listening to, and people do listen to him and the other top coaches in the SEC.
No one listens to Richt, since he is – at best – a third rate coach of a mediocre team.
LinkReport this comment.JB
May 31st, 2012
9:28 am
Spurrier is a good coach who is always working the refs and the system for any advantage. Richt said it best. We know what the rules are going in and we just follow them. Spurrier just needs to worry about which $10 luxury hotel to house his players in and figure out a way for his team to quit disappearing in 3 or 4 games a year.
LinkReport this comment.evillurks
May 31st, 2012
9:30 am
Its so funny to read this THUGA homer writing about Spurrier’s idea being a bad one since it’s THUGA who gets to have the easiest SEC schedule in history not one, but TWO years in a row while Spurrier and team has to play one of the more difficult SEC schedules.
It doesn’t matter, just like last year with that cupcake schedule…THUGA won’t sniff an SECC. Then it will be all “Fire Richt” afterwards. (And they probably will).
LinkReport this comment.JB
May 31st, 2012
9:32 am
Third rate coach? You need to but a Lindsey’s football magazine and turn to the SEC coach’s scoreboard page. If you care about facts, the only thing missing from Richt’s record is a NC, which is very important, but Richt is 1st and 2nd in the SEC in just about EVERY category.
LinkReport this comment.JB
May 31st, 2012
9:35 am
evillurks……………..Just tell us what Carolina has won in football. SEC East titles? SEC titles? National Championships?………………………….I thought so…………….crickets.
LinkReport this comment.kingdaddy
May 31st, 2012
9:41 am
E.lurk
Uga was 3-1 against SECw. S.C. was 1-2. Your schedule seemed harder because AUBURN KICKED YOUR ASSES IN COLUMBIA! Funny I think UGA BEAT THEM BY ABOUT 6 TOUCHDOWNS! So you played Arkansas, we played LSU YOU IDIOT! You come on here pretending like you played Alabama, LSU and Arkansas. You and your coach are whiners so stick your thumb back in your mouth and quict you’re blubbering…
LinkReport this comment.nate from detroit
May 31st, 2012
9:45 am
I also love all the references to how easy our schedule was last yr. and how easy it will be this yr. The implication is that we don’t deserve the East because of our schedule. I guess one can assume the next yr that we have to play Auburn, Alabama, and LSU in the same yr. that we should be given the East title no matter what our record is because we played a harder schedule.
The people that think this way are the same ones that believe that we bribed the conference office to make our shedule this way. These same people also believe Elvis is still alive, that the moon landing was staged in the New Mexico desert, the 9-11 attacks were carried out by our government…
We play the schedule in front of us just like any other school. Some years it will be weaker, some stronger.
LinkReport this comment.kingdaddy
May 31st, 2012
9:51 am
Evil lurks
What are you about 14 or 15 years old. What kind of STUPID NAME IS EVIL LURKS? Is that supposed to be scary to grown men? LOL, your just a wet behind the ears kid who needs a real spanking. If youre older than 15, you need to grow up or quit posting on an adult blog. Go find a Disney blog, maybe you can scare some children with you childish bs…
LinkReport this comment.kingdaddy
May 31st, 2012
9:55 am
Nate
You must have scared the little hit n run artist away. My guess is he just wet his pants.lol…
LinkReport this comment.minnesota dawg
May 31st, 2012
10:09 am
Bottom line if you are in the SEC is to win no matter if it is the east or west! It’s really no longer a true Southeastern Conference because we are including teams outside the SEC now.
LinkReport this comment.JB
May 31st, 2012
10:11 am
Here’s what I tell Spurrier. You want to play in Atlanta….just beat the folks you are told to play. Next question.
LinkReport this comment.JB
May 31st, 2012
10:13 am
I was in Columbia on business about two weeks ago……….i stopped to get gas………They had some Carolina tee shirts for sale that said ” WHY NOT US”……….. The lettering was faded and they were half price.
LinkReport this comment.G8R GRAD
May 31st, 2012
10:14 am
Good luck to the Dawgs in the NCAA Men’s Baseball Tournament!
Wait, you’re not . . . . , oh.
(awkward!)
LinkReport this comment.JB
May 31st, 2012
10:15 am
OK, I’ll explain the joke……………When Spurrier was hired at Carolina…at the news conference, he made that phrase his battle cry….for those who missed it…..Go Dawgs…..
LinkReport this comment.DIT
May 31st, 2012
10:16 am
Man, I think evil lurks just got body slammed by a couple of you. Too funny!
LinkReport this comment.Palmetto
May 31st, 2012
10:25 am
We’ll get back to you after we win another baseball championship. It must hurt not to have anything to do this time of year but whine about what Carolina’s coach is doing or saying….ouch!
LinkReport this comment.rsh
May 31st, 2012
10:30 am
Hey Bill King, Did this article come out because of Spurrier’s idea or his owning UGA’s ass since he arrived in Gainesville back in the eraly 1990’s? People always laugh & scoff at the ole ball coach and his crazy ideas… but in most cases, he turns out to be right.
When he first got to UF, they were under probation, along with the UF administration & NCAA they were trying to figure out the appropriate punishment. Prohibiting UF to win the SEC Championship was on the table as punishment for the previous coaching staff’s violations. Coach Spurrier told the UF administration that he thought the Gators had a good shot to win it all. The administration basically told him, “We’ve NEVER won the SEC Championship here… so, we’re going to take that punishment & move on from this.” Spurrier & the Gators went on to win the SEC that year.
Spurrier also came into the SEC with everyone telling him that teams couldn’t pass the ball and win the conference championship. You had to run the ball & play great defense. 7 SEC Championships & 1 National Championship later, people look at that quite differently now.
Back in the early 1990’s, Spurrier was the first SEC Coach to call for an NCAA playoff. As a so-called “sportswriter,”…have you heard all the talk recently about a four team playoff?!?
Last year, he had some other coaches at the SEC meeting sign onto a plan to pay players out of their own pockets. It’s now being discussed and considered by the SEC & NCAA.
And, yes, if they add two or more teams to the SEC in the next few years, which by all indications is going to happen eventually, there will indeed be division champions based on division records.
In terms of creativity, on the field as well as off, he’s done more for SEC football than anyone before or since him; and that includes Bear Bryant. Just wish his 14-5 record against Georgia wouldn’t affect your writing so much.
He’s always been fifteen or twenty years ahead of his time and he still is. Hopefully, one of these days, you & the rest of college football will catch up.
LinkReport this comment.JB
May 31st, 2012
10:31 am
Palmetto, Next time in Athens, stop by our Athletic building and look at our trophy’s on display….. And then go look at ya’lls………….and get back to me.
LinkReport this comment.@ Palmetto
May 31st, 2012
10:34 am
Well I guess being that you have not won anything significant in football you might as well talk about baseball. Remind me, how many outright SEC championships SC has won in football? How many NC in football?
That’s what I thought; now, go back to dreaming because that’s all you have when it comes to your football program.
It must really tick you off that no matter the mediocrity of the UGA football program in the past 2 years, y’all are STILL worse off than they are. Sucks to be Carolina!
LinkReport this comment.NDAWG
May 31st, 2012
10:36 am
How many national championships does South Carolina have……………………..
LinkReport this comment.harold
May 31st, 2012
10:39 am
SPURRIER IS JUST A GREAT COACH. HE IS THE BEST COACH SOUTH CAROLINA EVER HAD.
LinkReport this comment.MR’s Preacher
May 31st, 2012
10:43 am
What a load of horse hockey. Spurrier isn’t looking for attention, he’s just making a point. Spurrier doesn’t need to look for attention, when you have his record attention follows you…Unlike a certan member of my flock. USC beat everyone in the East, they were the best team. As to MR, he’ll follow the crowd.
LinkReport this comment.MR’s Preacher
May 31st, 2012
10:43 am
Hey NDawg, good point. USC has one less than UGA.
LinkReport this comment.kingdaddy
May 31st, 2012
10:44 am
rsh
Spurrier is really just tired. He’s tired of Colimbia. He’s tired of South Carolina. He’s tired of the lame-crocks. He misses UF.He misses winning tittles. He misses the attention he used to get when he had a decent team and he misses his MOJO. His best days are gone and HE KNOWS IT! He’s just a sad ol blubbering, whiney, crotchety crybaby, and S.C. fans are the biggest whiners on the planet! Did I mention the possibility or little stevies retirement after he loses to UGA this year???
LinkReport this comment.@ HAROLD
May 31st, 2012
10:45 am
His being a great coach is not what is in question here. Please keep up with the conversation. He’s trying to change the league playing rules that is applied not just for all of college football but the other sport programs as well.
Spurrier is just thinking about this year because he knows that he WILL lose 2 to 3 games by the West and it’s 50/50 against UGA. If the tables are turned we are not even having this discussion because the whiner would be finding something else to whine about.
No one is questioning his coaching abilitites or what he did agaisnt UGA when he was at Florida. Keep up or go back to your mom!
LinkReport this comment.kingdaddy
May 31st, 2012
10:49 am
Just another Preacher endowed with SPIRIT, BUT NO SUBSTANCE!!!
LinkReport this comment.Flo-Ri-Duh
May 31st, 2012
10:49 am
That’s why they call themselves the GameCrocks. UGA always has more talent than the GameCrocks. Sometimes, like last year, they CHOKE when the game is on the line. Same thing happened against Michigan State. Why would you stay with a field goal kicker that misses 14 field goals in one season?
LinkReport this comment.MR’s Preacher
May 31st, 2012
10:50 am
Kingdaddy, please shut up. You make UGA fans look like stupid losers. “We played LSU” ? Not in the freaking regular season which DECIDEDS who goes to the game you moron. And “we beat Aub by 6 TDs” Yea,…But USC beat our ass at our own stadium. Damn son, you’re just dumb
LinkReport this comment.Pitbull
May 31st, 2012
11:06 am
Spurrier has hated Georgia ever since UF was rated number 1 in the nation and Steve was the future Heisman winner but when the Gators got to Jacksonville, the
Bulldogs beat the Gators and knocked them out of the national championship picture. Georgia defensive end George Patton spent more time in the Florida backfield than Spurrier did. What a great game and a great win for Georgia. Steve has never gotton over it and I hope it eats at him until he goes to that big Chickencoop in the sky. Steve, no matter how much you hate us, you can’t go back and win that game. It was 50 years ago.
LinkReport this comment.kingdaddy
May 31st, 2012
11:07 am
Preacher
Please don’t let me be the reason you lose your religion.lol, S.C. 1-2 vs. SECw, UGA 3-1 vs.SECw! I probably know more about the BIBLE than you too! Please try not to lose your temper loser, remember, you’re supposed to love me. XXXs & OOOs…
LinkReport this comment.kingdaddy
May 31st, 2012
11:13 am
Preach
we gave the game to SC, you didn’t win it, but it still counted as a loss. WE DESTROYED AN AUBURN TEAM THAT BEAT YOU AT YOUR HOME! SPIN THAT YOU FAKER! A real preacher wouldn’t lose his temper on a sports blog! WWJD???
LinkReport this comment.UGADOC (lL. H. Ingram, Ph.D.)
May 31st, 2012
11:14 am
Stastically speaking, Murray, Richt, and Bobo are known quantities. The records they’ve produced are immutable. How does one change the win-lose equasion in the most efficient and productive manner using this information? Play AM the first half, then bench him. .
LinkReport this comment.Alphare
May 31st, 2012
11:30 am
Spurrier is a great coach. He always leads his team to beat UGA whether he is FL or USC, good recruits or average recruits.
Actually his team beats FL 2 years in a row. Can UGA claim that in the last 20 years?
With that in mind, why would anybody trust some UGA fans’ intelligence over a legendary coach like Spurrier’s.
Here is the current SEC formula:
1. inner-division game is the most important, count as 1
2. cross-division game is the 2nd most important, count as 1
3. out-of-conference game is the least important, count as 0
Spurrier proposed formula:
1. inner-division game is the most important, count as 1
2. cross-division game is the 2nd most important, count as 0
3. out-of-conference game is the least important, count as 0
If you don’t like Spurrier’s formula, you may come up with something like:
1. inner-division game is the most important, count as 1
2. cross-division game is the 2nd most important, count as 1/2
3. out-of-conference game is the least important, count as 1/4
Spurrier is Spurrier, Spurrier is good with Maths too. He knows UGA got into SECCG with a technicality, while most UGA fans have no clue.”
Please tell me WHY a “division” game (AKA: SEC game) NOT count? That’s like saying the MLB should reformat the GB (games back) to ONLY include games against teams in your division (instead of your overall W/L record).
kingdaddy
May 31st, 2012
1:49 pm
Alph
I earned and was given my name, so that is a moot point. As far as little stevie’s judgement compared to mine, I told various post that stevies proposition was selfish and didn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell! If he was so great and almighty, why was he ignored and told, “we’ll talk about it next year.” Everyone at the meeting saw what I saw, a wore-out bag of gas who’s best days are behind him…
Decory Bryant
May 31st, 2012
2:02 pm
Saban has spoken…. It has been decided. Let’s move on to the next topic.
Joey
May 31st, 2012
2:02 pm
So self serving it’s pathetic – why didnt he think of it last year? Or at anytime in the East/West SEC history?.
Actually about like Pres Adams proposing a college football playoff, right after UGA didn’t make the Big Game in ‘07.
Folks would respect proposals like those a bit more if they didn’t come right after the proponents got their feelings hurt . . .
Alphare
May 31st, 2012
2:58 pm
“a wore-out bag of gas who’s best days are behind him”?
do you know Spurrier’s record vs UGA/FL/TN/Clemson in the last 2 years? The 4 biggest rivals of USC.
kingdaddy
May 31st, 2012
3:09 pm
Preach
your opinion means nothing to Bulldawg fans. UGA lost 1 SEC game, S.C. lost 2. Case closed. We were 2011 SECe CHAMPIONS because you have to win more games than us. You keep trying to ignore the Auburn games, but they beat you at your house and we Destroyed them. If we didn’t give the game away to S.C. as you suggest, then how do you account for your humiliating loss to Auburn? How do you account for our overwhelming victory over Auburn. You are the dunce who ignores the facts loser. BTW, you should never make fun of a person’s religion, that’s just one reason why nobody likes you…
Ron O
May 31st, 2012
4:05 pm
Want to shut Spurrier up: tell him is sounding more and more like Ray Goff everyday
Boise Dawg
May 31st, 2012
4:26 pm
Saban said it better than anyone else….. if the games don’t count then the teams shouldn’t be considered the same conference. What is the point of playing them if they don’t count?
Spurrier does have a slight point though and unless the schools all agree to step up to 9 conference games, the disparity of conference strength of schedule from year to year is only going to get worse and the East and West might as well be separate conferences. Personally, I’d like it better if the SEC was back to a 12-team conference or even a 10 team conference with 9 conference games. You should play all and if not then almost all of your conference opponents each year. As a Georgia fan, I hate not playing Alabama and LSU every year.
SEC Fan
May 31st, 2012
4:30 pm
“Alphare
May 31st, 2012
2:58 pm
do you know Spurrier’s record vs UGA/FL/TN/Clemson in the last 2 years? The 4 biggest rivals of USC.”
I did you 1 step better & did Spurrier’s record since 2005 (his 1st year):
2005 (2-2) Clem. – L, UGA – L, UF – W, UT – W
2006 (1-3) Clem. – W, UGA – L, UF – L, UT – L
2007 (1-3) Clem. – L, UGA – W, UF – L, UT – L
2008 (1-3) Clem. – L, UGA – L, UF – L, UT – W
2009 (1-3) Clem. – W, UGA – L, UF – L, UT – L
2010 (4-0) Clem. – W, UGA – W, UF – W, UT – W
2011 (4-0) Clem. – w, UGA – W, UF – W, UT – W
Clem.: 4-3
UGA: 3-4
UF: 3-4
UT: 4-3
Lee
May 31st, 2012
5:14 pm
First it was Urban Cryer, now it’s the Carolina Crybabies.
chazzo
May 31st, 2012
6:03 pm
Spurrier is using the dark side of the force. This is simply a mind screw for the doggies. Any little thing he put out there to create a shred of doubt or question authenticity is a point for his team on the field. He is a master at it. It is why so man consider him an SOB. Best solution: ignore him. If you take the attitude of “we are going to whip the snot out of that guy,” he got you. You aren’t playing your game; you’re playing his.
FUNDAMENTALS wins games not SWAGGER.
DunwoodyDawg
May 31st, 2012
6:25 pm
It just wouldn’t be the SEC meetings if Spurrier wasn’t doing something to tweek the Dawgs. Regardless, of what he says, it isn’t going to happen. Please Dawgs just beat SC in October and shut the whole fan base up for a while.
kingdaddy
May 31st, 2012
6:44 pm
Just win and it won’t matter…
Steve S
May 31st, 2012
9:03 pm
It’s Steve Superior, not Spurrier to you UGaly fans
kingdaddy
May 31st, 2012
9:34 pm
Little stevie is an annoying cry baby. One day he’ll grow-up…
Dawg Bite
May 31st, 2012
9:59 pm
No kingdaddy, SS will never grow up. He is nothing but an egotistical jerk that hates UGA because Bill Stanfill and Co. beat him to a pulp that day in Jax, 1976 I think. He won the Heisman that year, but was crushed by the Dogs and has never gotten over it. i really think that most of the people in the conference hierarchy just let him have his say, then go on about the business at hand and ignore what he spouts out about. He needs to just shut his trap and retire. He is nothing but a blow-hard, and i would just bet that Billy Payne wants no part of him at Augusta National. JMHO
Dawggone
May 31st, 2012
10:16 pm
Bill King..its easy to say BS that Richt didn’t say. Maybe you’re a mind reader are just a idiot. We all know you hate Spurrier…wonder why?
Be sure your lies will find you out.
Dawg Bite
May 31st, 2012
10:18 pm
My bad, I think the year was 1966 that SS was crushed by Stanfill and UGA.
kingdaddy
May 31st, 2012
10:45 pm
Bill (the real) King
Please, no more pictures of little stevie…
were tight
June 1st, 2012
12:06 am
and both like ole ball coach!
were tight
June 1st, 2012
12:20 am
and as usual you me and kingdaddy are all on same page!
Vinings Dawg
June 1st, 2012
8:29 am
Spurrier is a wang always fighting for what suits his team or position and not the big picure. And who is the GTBob guy??? Seriously man. I feel for you if this is your sole source of amusement. I have never once posted on a GT, AL, FL, SC etc blog. and especially not to just stir the pot. Let us UGA fans bask in this positive light and enjoy the pre season anticipation. I would not dream of taking that good time away from a group of tech guys (aka my entire office). Let people enjoy and just do your own thing. If not?… well we’ll see you in a few months and relive this lesson all over again. Care to wager?
kingdaddy
June 1st, 2012
8:30 am
Whete did all the blame-crocks go? I thought they got up with the chickins? Bug-gockkkkkkk…
kingdaddy
June 1st, 2012
8:32 am
Whete, really?
Where did that come from?
Wilson Pickett
June 1st, 2012
8:35 am
Put Steve as the HC at UGA and Richt as the HC at USCe and you see Mark is no way near the coach that Steve is/was. I understand you don’t like the guy because he’s made million beating your azz over his career. What you can take from all the chatter at the SEC meetings is some coaches aren’t happy with the 6-1-1 setup. It wouldn’t surprise that they got with the 6-2 deal and Bama vs UT and UGA vs cheater U is history (other than the normal rotation).
kingdaddy
June 1st, 2012
8:36 am
V-Dawg
The younger generation likes to poke tradition in the eye…
kingdaddy
June 1st, 2012
9:08 am
Would you want to see this man grab your childs face-mask and sream at him on National T.V. for making a mistake on the field. He himself has made mistakes on gameday. Good coach, poor human being…
Flo-Ri-Duh
June 1st, 2012
9:27 am
New Game Cluck cheer…………. pluck pluck pluck pluck pluck pluck pluck pluck. That’s it. Game Clucks don’t make sense when they talk.
Flo-Ri-Duh
June 1st, 2012
9:29 am
If you want to pay scholarship football players a debit card would be wiser than cash as marywanna can’t be bought with a debit card yet.
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kingdaddy
June 1st, 2012
10:08 am
Flo,
just let them become land-lords and rent out their hotel rooms,lol…
dienlafin
June 1st, 2012
10:12 am
Three in a row on national TV. Mcgarity fires the women’s golf coach and gives CMR a raise!!!!
Your Ol and DL suck and you are signing Rbs and dbs. No wonder I’m dienlafin!!!!!!!!!
Raleigh
June 1st, 2012
11:25 am
Man I hate spurrier
JdiddyJD
June 1st, 2012
11:38 am
Lamesauce
JdiddyJD
June 1st, 2012
11:43 am
ok.. so, this blogger is tearing down Spurrier instead of offering a lifelong fan’s perspective on UGA? I guess losing to Spurrier all your life will do that.
A reporter pointed out to Spurrier that Florida had moved to within 12 games of tying the all-time series with Georgia and asked Spurrier if he thought he would still be coaching when the Gators tied it up.
Spurrier’s reply – “I don’t know, 12 years is a long time
kingdaddy
June 1st, 2012
8:31 pm
Who cares? Little stevie su*ks…
AltamahaDawg
June 6th, 2012
12:38 pm
Do ALL Florida coaches come down there as such jackasses or do they just become one during thier time there before they eventually bail out?