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.
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DawgNole
July 17th, 2012
8:44 pm
Bryan
July 17th, 2012
6:05 pm
Mocking UGA’s schedule this year is idiotic by any standard. The SEC sets the conference schedule. UGA does not.
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True enough, but the issue should be the OOC schedule, which UGA DOES set. It continues to be a disgrace and an embarrassment–and to reflect the cowardice of McGarity.
Kerryb
July 17th, 2012
8:44 pm
DawgNola, beside the point. WE put our foot in his teams butt last year. They needed some mistakes by us to pull out a lucky win. Sometimes you just have to be lucky.
Eddie
July 17th, 2012
8:44 pm
Are you people really that ignorant or do you really not know that we don’t pick our SEC schedule. The schedule rotates and sometimes that works out well and sometimes it does not. Spurrier can whine all he wants, but he would not be if the rotation was going his way.
DawgNole
July 17th, 2012
8:56 pm
whatever
July 17th, 2012
6:24 pm
Maybe that is why UGA DROPPED the Alabama game for this year?? The doggies didn’t want to play a high caliber team . . . Even pitiful GT could win the SEC-East with UGA’s schedule this year. But UGA is TOO chicken to play Alabama. Roll Tide.
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You’re WAY out of your league on this blog. The SEC alone is responsible for conference scheduling, so no, UGA didn’t “drop” Bama. UGA had no say in the matter. Neither did Bama, for that matter.
Educate yourself before you come on here wasting space.
Mark Richt
July 17th, 2012
8:58 pm
FLAT TIRE are you a cook at the waffle house?
kingdaddy
July 17th, 2012
8:59 pm
Eddie,
what’s crazy is that little stevie knows this too. He knows that he has benifitted from the same rotation before and never said a word. Now that UGA benifits from an schedule where Fla. & Tn. are not as dominant as they normally are, lil stevie and the whiners want to CRY, CRY, BABY…
I dropped my fried Twinkie
July 17th, 2012
9:01 pm
worm it proves you are Stupid and talking out of you butt with your comments. Tech has problems with UGa but not the average SEC teams. Saban wanted to move the Tech game until he is probably retired. Tenn will not even play us. Auburn is the only SEC that likes to play Tech every few years.
DawgNole
July 17th, 2012
9:01 pm
kingdaddy
July 17th, 2012
7:41 pm
Butterbean,
S.C., has won what, 2 games against UGA in the last 11 years? BWAAAAHAAAAAAHAAAAAA! Thanks for the history lesson.
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Hate to crack on a fellow dawg, but it’s FOUR in the past 11 years–not two. And that’s FOUR too many!
ronnie turner
July 17th, 2012
9:02 pm
gt south carolina wil not beat georgia and georia tech wil not beat georgia
DawgNole
July 17th, 2012
9:06 pm
mgdawg
July 17th, 2012
8:02 pm
UGA does luck out this year and miss the big 3 from the west which will clearly help the win loss column. However, I believe most UGA fans were upset when they found out bama was being dropped, I was really looking forward to making that trip.
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Good post, mgdawg.
DawgNole
July 17th, 2012
9:13 pm
Kerryb
July 17th, 2012
7:49 pm
When did Steve Spurrier morph into a whining little girl?
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History indicates that it happened not long after he was born.
Tdawg
July 17th, 2012
9:15 pm
Don’t anyone, not find it funny as he!!, that not once, when UGA was playing Alabama and LSU and Auburn, you never heard the dawg fans complaining about how hard the schedule was. Where were the turd fans and the techies and the ole crybaby SC coach when UGA was playing those teams? I’ll tell you where they were. They were hiding, keeping their crybaby mouths shut. That’s where they were.
Tdawg
July 17th, 2012
9:21 pm
DawgNole you really are a loon, aren’t ya? A Nole fan having the audacity to criticize anyone’s schedule. Get a life you poor fool.
I dropped my fried Twinkie
July 17th, 2012
9:22 pm
Tdwag maybe that is because when you want to be Elite you play the Elite. You play and win against the crappy SEC and weak OOC then don’t talk about UGa being a member of the SEC Elite.
Fats
July 17th, 2012
9:22 pm
Spurrier knows how to get inside Dawgs heads…………………..Watch the sly fox………..He is wise one
Flat Tire on I-95 in Jacksonville
July 17th, 2012
9:32 pm
Mark Richt
No but you seem to have stayed at too many Holiday Inn Express the last 5 years
whiskey breath
July 17th, 2012
9:41 pm
I told you I wasn’t the only one that recognizes that chicken crap schedule.
Perfect for Richt, the coward loves to pad his record. Love Spurrier or hate him,
the guy always tells the truth. If Richt get’s his way and we do away with the Kick off,
we all lose.
peachfuzz
July 17th, 2012
9:48 pm
I like CMR. A v. Good coach and seemingly an even better man. I love the OBC. A very, very good coach. A seemingly good man. And he entertains the he’ll out of me.
HOUDAWG
July 17th, 2012
9:48 pm
Hey SOS ……. blame your AD, you dumbass. Then again, you’re incapable of resisting shots at UGA every summer. Hey , isn’t this the time of year you suspend Garcia again ??! It is an SC tradition now, ya know …….
I dropped my fried Twinkie
July 17th, 2012
9:52 pm
Purdue has dismissed cornerback Sean Collins after he was arrested over the weekend outside a bar on preliminary charges of public intoxication, resisting arrest and battery.
Boy Purdue isn’t a SEC school for sure.
jalex49
July 17th, 2012
9:56 pm
The heck with Spurrier and let the season begin…. Go Dawgs!!!
jj
July 17th, 2012
10:30 pm
Bama – National Champions Again ! No. #14 – Steveo is right, Georgia plays a very weak schedule
DOGGIE IN NC
July 17th, 2012
10:32 pm
No one on this blog knows what Georgia’s true strength of schedule is until year’s end. This could be the year the three strongest teams in the SEC are in the EAST (UGA, USC, FLA). All three will have great defenses, and that is what it takes to win in this league. If the DAWGS win the EAST, one thing is sure – they will NOT be ducking the best the West has to offer. GO DOGGIES!
SEC Fact Finder
July 17th, 2012
10:37 pm
The old school way was to keep your mouth shut and then go out and kick your opponents fanny.
SS has decided to let his mouth go and as long as he can back it up(which he has done for 2 years in a row) he can sit up there and look down his nose at UGA. In practical sense he has taken teams with much less talent and beat a UGA team with top 10 talent who did not get it done against top ranked teams. Now this is a new year and SS is just planting some very deep roots into the minds of the SEC schedulers in Birmingham. Will it work? Who knows, but he knows how to coach, and has proven it at three schools.
bubba4dawgs
July 17th, 2012
10:39 pm
Spurrier, you’re just sad that all the miscreants will be out of jail by the time they play you! Oh, I should say hopefully they’re out of jail!!
pbt dawg fan
July 17th, 2012
10:45 pm
Bama doesn’t play the any of the stop three teams from the SEC east. Georgia, South Carolina, Florida. Maybe BAMA schedule became easier when they found out Georgai wasn’t coming to tuscaloosa. Remeber CMR is undefeated in Byant-Deny Staduim.
Truth
July 17th, 2012
10:45 pm
Lowcountry bulldawg….since you’re so good at quoting head to head schedule, try this on for size. Lets see …Gators 18 out of 21 years over the mutts! A trip down memory lane isn’t fun, is it?
Rick James
July 17th, 2012
10:49 pm
@GTBob
I think most teams in the Sun Belt conference would rather have UGA’s schedule
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Actually I think Georgia would rather have an ACC schedule..
kingdaddy
July 17th, 2012
10:49 pm
Dawgnole
my bad, they can brag about winning 4 OF THE LAST 11, BWAAAAHAAAAAHAAAAA…
GT fan
July 17th, 2012
10:50 pm
it’s just the way the scheduling has worked … a few years ago GA was playing the LSUs and BAMAs. It just so happens that LSU and Bama weren’t as good as they are now.
Nothing SS can do about SEC scheduling. It’s the coward McGarity who sets the utterly embarrassing
NC schedule … BUFFALO, FL Atlantic, GA Southern. And I think SS benefited from McGarity when he coached the Gators. Anyone else see the similarities of UGA’s NC schedule compared to when McGarity was at UF?
GA played FOUR teams that were consistently good in 2011 (Boise, SC, LSU, Mich St), and surrendered 35+ to all 4, going 0-4. Auburn & their “little bro” GT were GA’s signature Ws in 2011.
GA will appear to be a very good team in 2012 b/c their schedule is more favorable that 2011 (i.e. NO Boise St) GA fans just better hope the trip to Mizzou isn’t similar to the trip to Colorado a few years ago, and that Ole Miss, UT, Vandy, or UK aren’t improved from 2011 or there might be a couple Ls hidding in those games.
Roll Tide 48
July 17th, 2012
10:50 pm
Hey pbt dawg fan,
CMR may be undefeated in Tuscaloosa but how many NC’s does he have? Oh that’s right, ZERO! How about another Black Out? LMAO!!!!!
DawgNole
July 17th, 2012
10:50 pm
Tdawg
July 17th, 2012
9:21 pm
DawgNole you really are a loon, aren’t ya? A Nole fan having the audacity to criticize anyone’s schedule. Get a life you poor fool.
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Did I defend the Noles’ OOC schedule (aside from fla)? Absolutely not. A weak schedule is a weak schedule–whether FSU’s or UGA’s. So get off the blog with your nonsense, imbecile.
pbt dawg fan
July 17th, 2012
10:53 pm
Roll-tide 48
Actually he has two as OC at florida state.
matthew
July 17th, 2012
10:54 pm
university of georgia the most overated university with the most overrated coach(saint riche)with the most overated football program in the little racist backwater hamlet called Athens
pbt dawg fan
July 17th, 2012
10:55 pm
roll-tide 48
oh, you meant as a head coach you should hjave said that
pbt dawg fan
July 17th, 2012
10:56 pm
matthew who is team
pbt dawg fan
July 17th, 2012
11:01 pm
hey truth,
If you really won’t go down memory lane, out of all those games the gators have won in the past 20 years your still down by 8 games in the all-time standings. i know gator fans didn’t start actually keeping records of their game until 1990.
dagnabit
July 17th, 2012
11:02 pm
That stupid rooster will be crowing after he stomps the bulldogs into the turf this year.
pbt dawg fan
July 17th, 2012
11:05 pm
Somebody tell South Carolina Fans, that until they actually go to a BCS bowl game they can’t comment on this site.
DawgNole
July 17th, 2012
11:06 pm
GT fan
July 17th, 2012
10:50 pm
it’s just the way the scheduling has worked … a few years ago GA was playing the LSUs and BAMAs. It just so happens that LSU and Bama weren’t as good as they are now.
Nothing SS can do about SEC scheduling. It’s the coward McGarity who sets the utterly embarrassing NC schedule … BUFFALO, FL Atlantic, GA Southern. And I think SS benefited from McGarity when he coached the Gators. Anyone else see the similarities of UGA’s NC schedule compared to when McGarity was at UF?
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You’re right on the money about McGarity.
One thing you could say about Damon Evans was that he at least tried to include decent OOC games (Okla St, Colo, Ariz St, Oregon, etc.)–and had the guts to schedule them home and home. His idea–and it was a good one–was to “spread the UGA brand” out of the Southeast. Yeah, we lost a couple of those road games, but I’d rather do that than engage in the shameful practice of buying Ws over cupcakes. Of course, the Oregon series was never played; McGarity couldn’t get the Ducks off the schedule fast enough when he got here from fla, where he was a master of the soft OOC schedule (aside from FSU).
UGA OOC scheduling–disgusting, embarrassing, cowardly. The Dawgs are far from the only ones who do it, obviously, but that sure as hell doesn’t make it right.
satilla dog
July 17th, 2012
11:27 pm
GTBob you idiot you are way below our level with techs high school football you nerd. All you field is a bunch of cheer leaders. THE DAWGS OWN THIS STATE. You are a wanna be,you whinning techies.
superior hater
July 17th, 2012
11:30 pm
He’ll be joining Lou Holtz soon.
satilla dog
July 17th, 2012
11:32 pm
GT FANS I WOULD NOT SHOW MY PATHETIC FACE ON THIS BLOG.YOU AND YOUR TEAM ALONG WITH JOHNSON ARE A DOWN GRADE TO THE STATE OF GEORGIA WITH YOUR HIGH SCHOOL TECHIE TEAM.
DirtyDawg
July 17th, 2012
11:33 pm
There’s a simple solution to dealing with Superior’s arrogance…kick his a$$ in Columbia.
Roll Tide or roll it up
July 17th, 2012
11:36 pm
I just read tuscaloosanews.com. Just kidding….why are bama fans reading an Atlanta paper? Please go back to your home on wheels and get ready for your day on the road construction crew tomorrow.
frank
July 17th, 2012
11:38 pm
Dont worry stevie im sure the dawgs will figure out a way to screw up and lose at least 2 games this year regardless.
Especially with nice guy mark rick in charge. More interested in taking the boys high diving then keeping his guys in check. Check the police blotter if you dont believe me.
WDE
Shine
July 17th, 2012
11:41 pm
More protecting loser Richts job by the SEC goons in charge. Another year wasted on the way.
I dropped my fried Twinkie
July 17th, 2012
11:42 pm
Do you really think all these Bama fans live in Alabama? Just because UGa grads don’t leave Georgia doesn’t mean fans of other teams don’t live here too.
ALABAMA FOOTBALL
July 17th, 2012
11:52 pm
ROLL TIDE!
Roll Tide or roll it up
July 17th, 2012
11:57 pm
Twinkie…the economy in AL is so attractive that educated professionals from all of the world are headed to your homeland. The thought of commenting on bama blogs is laughable. Good luck with your existence.