South Carolina: Spurrier would prefer Georgia’s schedule
HOOVER, Ala. – The question was about the perceived advantage of the open date on South Carolina’s schedule before the Gamecocks’ Nov. 10 game against Arkansas. But South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier veered in a different direction with the answer.
“You think I make the schedule?” Spurrier said from the podium at SEC Media Days. “If I made the schedule, Georgia would be playing LSU, and we’d be playing Ole Miss.”
The schedule says otherwise, of course — South Carolina at LSU on Oct. 13 and Georgia vs. Ole Miss in Athens on Nov. 3.
Spurrier didn’t make more of the issue, quickly moving on by saying: “Not complaining about that other part I mentioned there.”
But he had made the point, not for the first time, that South Carolina’s cross-division schedule is more imposing than Georgia’s. Last month, at the SEC meetings in Destin, Fla., Spurrier proposed that such schedule inequities be remedied by counting only intra-division games in determining the SEC East and West champions. That proposal went nowhere.
Georgia this season draws SEC West opponents Ole Miss and Auburn (a combined 4-12 in league play last season), while South Carolina draws Arkansas and LSU (a combined 14-2 in the league last season). The Gamecocks have lost to Arkansas each of the past three seasons and five of the past six.
FULL AJC COVERAGE FROM DAY 1 OF SEC MEDIA DAYS:
- SEC commissioner Mike Slive talks playoffs and a lot more
- South Carolina’s Spurrier prefers UGA’s schedule
- Missouri, Texas A&M state their case
- Jeff Schultz’s digi-blog: Welcome to Media Daze.
- Aggies excited, not intimidated, by SEC debut.
- Schultz: SEC needs to be vigilant to avoid Penn State-like scandals
- Vanderbilt coach passes on question about Todd Grantham
- The media’s record at predicting SEC champ: 4-16 since 1992
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Rooty Tooty
July 17th, 2012
5:14 pm
With UGA’s schedule, there are some people in the cemetary that could win 9 games coaching.
Low Country bowl 67
July 17th, 2012
5:18 pm
All you dumb “masses” knuckle dragging, stanky, varsity eating, PBR drinking, uneducated , warehouse working, hicks, need to quit haten on the Old ball coach. You would trade him for Richt in a heart beat if yall had the chance.
ROCK STEADY FREDDY
July 17th, 2012
5:19 pm
ALL RECRUITS BEWARE OF THE NUT CASES IN ALURBAMMURR. THREE GOT MOWED DOWN AT AU JUST A FEW WEEKS AGO AND 17 GOT SHOT BAMA LAST NIGHT. PARENTS, I WOULD BE VERY WEARY OF LETTING MY CHILD GO OVER THERE, EVEN IF THEY DID OFFER ME A TON OF MONEY. THE MONEY ISN’T WORTH IT!
Dumbo
July 17th, 2012
5:20 pm
Just cry baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It’s so unfair……poor Steve…they’re treating him so bady
Mountain Dawg
July 17th, 2012
5:20 pm
Looks like the Ol’ Bawl Coach gave Ole Miss some pretty good fodder for their bulletin board.
lawzoo
July 17th, 2012
5:21 pm
Once more Spurrier tells the truth no spin and ‘Em Dawgs start howling. Ole Mess at home? God Almighty getting fed like the lil’ pups they are ….without the felons of course.
At least the ones who have been apprehended.
P-Cola Dog
July 17th, 2012
5:25 pm
sounds like stevie is having some dawg envy. Its ok…. you see it all the time with the trolls roaming UGA blawgs
UGA Football - Punch line
July 17th, 2012
5:27 pm
CFB Nation is laughing with Spurrier at Dawg Nation. Note the room ERUPTED in laughter. Why? Spurrier has the media laughing at you!
Everyone knows you have a cake schedule AND have a ‘problem’ keeping players out of trouble with the law (Fulmer Cup). Spurrier is doing his job.
LakeDawg
July 17th, 2012
5:28 pm
Spurrier sure is whiny. They aren’t gonna put an asterisk beside UGA’s record when they win the East. Steve often reminds me of an 11 year old brat.
Larry
July 17th, 2012
5:28 pm
It’s reported that Nick Saban will only dress 20 players for the Tennessee game. The rest will have to dress themselves
NOLA DAWG
July 17th, 2012
5:28 pm
The Ole’ Ball Coach already making excuses for his sub-par team…
GaStateBen
July 17th, 2012
5:28 pm
Gotta love Spurrier. He just wants an easy schedule like the dwags have.
230gr Full Metal Jacket
July 17th, 2012
5:29 pm
All this trash talk, and not a single UGA graduate anywhere to be found. I guess anyone who can go buy a hat at WalMart can claim to be a “dawg”. Sad for the actual alumni though, because most of them are good, intelligent folks. But their school gets represented by a bunch of illiterate high-school drop-outs on the AJC. You can actually feel your IQ declining with each subsequent post you read. And you’ve got to love a bunch of losers who live vicariously through a bunch of children playing a game with a ball, having the nerve (or lack of intelligence as it may be) to badmouth Spurrier — who has owned UGA at virtually every college coaching job he has had! You may not like him, but yopu haven’t figured out how to consistently beat him (and his inferior talent) yet!!
Larry
July 17th, 2012
5:29 pm
What did the Alabama graduate say to the Georgia graduate? Welcome to McDonald’s, may I take your order please?
kral
July 17th, 2012
5:29 pm
He sure told the truth in the capital..I heard he gave part of that salary he earned..man is close to sainthood …zoo fits perfect..can not come up with a better dig
Ogeechee Dawg
July 17th, 2012
5:29 pm
Typical Spurrier mind games and whining. He is setting up USCe. I guess he had not issues when he was at Florida he ahd a pretty bad LSU team to paly and UGA had some good Auburn teams.
And since when is playing USCe, Tennessee, Florida, Auburn, GT and now MO considered weak.
Last I checked – Florida beat Ohio State.
USCe hammered Nebraska
Tennessee is improving
Auburn is getting back to being Auburn
And USCe is actually a very good team
Our schedule is on par – if not more difficult than any ACC, Pac10 or B10 schedule
Go Dawgs – one game at a time!
Larry
July 17th, 2012
5:30 pm
An Alabama fan walks into the doctor’s office one day with a hat on. He takes off his hat, and the doctor sees that there is a big frog sitting right on top of his head. The doctor looks at the man and asks him why he has a frog sitting on his head. It was the frog who replied “Actually doc, I was the one who wanted to see you. Can you remove this wart off my butt?”
Roadrunner
July 17th, 2012
5:32 pm
No tears here for poor little Steve Spurrier, the Gators enjoyed an open date prior to the Bulldog game for years and I don’t recall him saying he had an unfair advantage then. Boo hoo, Steve, Boo hoo.
willie
July 17th, 2012
5:34 pm
I can’t believe how easy this schedule is. Anything less than 11-1 is an embarrassment for a team with as much talent as UGA.
Old Boy
July 17th, 2012
5:34 pm
In other breaking news, Spurrier whines. A lot.
Mechanical Mind
July 17th, 2012
5:36 pm
I’m a GT alumus, but what exactly is the cognitive capacity of one with a title of “230gr Full Metal Jacket?”
This is about football; this is not, dude, about armour-piercing projectiles!
GaStateBen
July 17th, 2012
5:37 pm
“You can actually feel your IQ declining with each subsequent post you read”
Funny, but true!
The tide is rolling and i don't have a job
July 17th, 2012
5:39 pm
The tide is rolling and boy am i angry i have no job and live in alabama.
I dropped my fried Twinkie
July 17th, 2012
5:41 pm
gaStateben.. how many recruits you got? how many stars?
kral
July 17th, 2012
5:41 pm
well FMJ..I am college grad..not of UGA…many family members are…I am so sad can not be a fan..does though sound a might be elitist…life-time UGA FAN…seen or maybe saw..pick which you prefer many a game…saw the great HW …LIVE…picked up part of J. Puolas tear away jersey at the Gator Bowl…dang I guess I got to hang it up…respect spurr his college career..rip him anytime I get the opportunity..some of us illiterates…just can not stand him
GoGators
July 17th, 2012
5:42 pm
You can all sos, a lil 8itch,he whines,cry baby,whatever! But he OWNS the dogs! Always has,always will.
GTBob
July 17th, 2012
5:43 pm
And since when is playing USCe, Tennessee, Florida, Auburn, GT and now MO considered weak.
Since just about all of those teams were pretty bad last year and improvement only looks likely for one of them. And lol at UGA having a tougher schedule then every team in every other conference. You must have a really high opinion Vandy, Ole Miss, and Kentucky.
GTRandall
July 17th, 2012
5:43 pm
I think anyone who reads these comments and thinks that everyone posting is a fan of who they claim to be a fan of already has a rather low IQ to begin with.
The tide is rolling and i don't have a job
July 17th, 2012
5:43 pm
An alabama doctor tells a worried patient gettng his first time prostate exam that “getting an erection is perfectly normal during this” after the patient respnds with “I’m not getting an erection”
the alabama doctor corrects him with “but i am”
Bama in Atlanta
July 17th, 2012
5:44 pm
Hang in there Steve, I’ll call you a waaaaaambulance!
GTBob
July 17th, 2012
5:44 pm
I can’t believe how easy this schedule is. Anything less than 11-1 is an embarrassment for a team with as much talent as UGA.
There really is only one game that should even be competitive.
To Paraphrase Bill Curry
July 17th, 2012
5:45 pm
“With UGA’s schedule, there are some people in the cemetary that could win 9 games coaching.”
We could always dig up the Bear and you Bammers could cream yourselves tea-bagging him too.
RamblinWreck90
July 17th, 2012
5:48 pm
GTBob
We’re playing Presbyterian and MTSU along with a typically weak ACC schedule so I’m not sure we’re in any position to poke fun at anyone else’s schedule.
Dawglasville
July 17th, 2012
5:48 pm
230gr Full Metal Jacket – I’ll chime in sir. I graduated in 1988. The main reason people get involved with the blog is to show others how witty they are. It really has become a huge waste of time. I’m willing to bet if you go to any blog, in any town, you get the same stuff.
My view on this effort: Stevie “One Hit” Wonder doing what he do. He takes shots at UGA and his base loves it. I don’t like the man. I don’t respect the man. But South Carolina guys do so enjoy. They’ve had two very high profile coaches, Stevie Wonder and Holtz, and what do they have to show for it? They have beaten UGA a few times and won a bowl game or two. (Is it two?).
Dawglasville
July 17th, 2012
5:49 pm
RamblinWreck90 – Thanks but don’t waste your time. This is how Bob spends the better part of his day.
RamblinWreck90
July 17th, 2012
5:50 pm
GTBob
We also just weaseled out of playing Alabama. Just when it looked like we were going to FINALLY beef up our non-conference schedule, we pulled out at the last minute.
concern
July 17th, 2012
5:51 pm
Coach still wishes he was back at Flordia or some other college. I also had hoped they would give him a second try after his unsuccessful effort in the big league. Always seems to be wanting to be somewhere else.
Guess he is doing the best he can.
Cdpridg
July 17th, 2012
5:51 pm
What a whiny lil biotch…..Stevie knows his team want compete..
RamblinWreck90
July 17th, 2012
5:51 pm
Speaking of Spurrier poking at coaches, teams and fanbases, he also took a shot at Alabama and Nick Saban today.
Spurrier: “It’s easier to win the national championship than the SEC. Ask Nick Saban.”
kral
July 17th, 2012
5:52 pm
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yep...
July 17th, 2012
5:54 pm
We do have an easy schedule this season, now let’s make good use of it.
Go Dogs
Larry
July 17th, 2012
5:55 pm
What do you call a good looking girl on the University of Alabama campus?
A visitor.
GaStateBen
July 17th, 2012
5:56 pm
“Spurrier: “It’s easier to win the national championship than the SEC. Ask Nick Saban.”
Kinda witty and true.
byron
July 17th, 2012
5:57 pm
Last time I checked Ga. Southern was a FCS school with 65 scholarships!
7576DAWG
July 17th, 2012
5:58 pm
Just heard some of the things the Missouri coach had to say today. Came across as a jerk. Missouri needs to let a PR man talk for them instead of the coach.
I hope Richt takes that game serious because I would like nothing more than to welcome the Missouri coach with a lose.
top dawg
July 17th, 2012
5:58 pm
Lets see if he is still complaining a few years from now when the dawgs are playing lsu and alabama in the same year they play ole miss and miss st. Give it up!!!
dewnsav
July 17th, 2012
5:58 pm
if Spurrier sticks around, the schedule cycle will be back with Carolina where they will have the easier road…just the way it shakes out…Dogs have benefitted from their schedule last and this year…I recall a few years back how brutal their schedule was…and it depends who is up in the West in the year you are scheduled to play them…go dogs
kral
July 17th, 2012
5:59 pm
weak limb again bob..things and predictions can change quickly..somebody might find a diamond..you know AUB and what was that qb’s name
Larry
July 17th, 2012
6:01 pm
What should you do if you find three Alabama fans buried up to their necks in cement?
Get more cement.
GTBob
July 17th, 2012
6:01 pm
We’re playing Presbyterian and MTSU along with a typically weak ACC schedule so I’m not sure we’re in any position to poke fun at anyone else’s schedule.
Sorry. This is one of the few years that GT plays a tougher schedule then UGA so I am going to laugh about it.