Mark Richt, Ole Miss coach respond to Steve Spurrier’s schedule shot
HOOVER, Ala. – In a jab at Georgia’s schedule earlier this week, South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier offended Mississippi’s football program. Said Spurrier: “If I made the schedule, Georgia would be playing LSU, and we’d be playing Ole Miss.”
Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze fired back on Thursday as SEC Media Days concluded: “2013, I think they’re on our schedule. We will circle that date and look forward to maybe changing his perspective on Ole Miss football.”
Georgia coach Mark Richt also was asked about Spurrier’s comment that he’d prefer to play UGA’s cross-division schedule rather than South Carolina’s.
“I’m sure there will be a year he’ll be thankful for the schedule he has,” Richt said.
FULL AJC COVERAGE FROM DAY 3 OF SEC MEDIA DAYS:
- Media vote: Georgia will win SEC East
- Richt, Bulldogs address perception of being undisciplined team
- Six UGA players on media’s preseason All-SEC teams
- Dooley: ‘You’re not going to have Tennessee to kick around anymore’
- Richt, Georgia have been hurt by too many recruiting risks
- Mark Richt: ‘We don’t recruit bad kids’
- Alabama vows to avoid 2010-type complacency
- It’s UGA’s turn in the spotlight
FULL AJC COVERAGE FROM DAY 2 OF SEC MEDIA DAYS:
- A conversation with former UGA quarterback Zach Mettenberger, now LSU’s starter
- Atlanta’s college-football playoff bid still percolating
- Schultz: Muschamp deserves some time at Florida
- Coaches’ sideline behavior a point of emphasis for SEC officials
- Miss. State needs to pick it up in SEC West
- Muschamp: Dooley didn’t complain about playing Florida in Jacksonville
- Kentucky coach Joker Phillips says he’s feeling no heat
- Schultz: Arkansas living with humiliation after Petrino firing
- Auburn welcomes VanGorder back to the SEC
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
- Spurrier has no qualms about this quarterback
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66 comments Add your comment
Chesley Hanshew
July 20th, 2012
2:21 pm
I wasn’t able to go to UGA so I settled on Georgia Southern. As a 42 year old male with no life I enjoy posting under fake names because I have nothing better to do. Gosh, I wish I had something better to do with my time.
Nothing Could Be Finer
July 20th, 2012
3:53 pm
The dogs best learn how to tackle Latimore if they want to remotely stay in it on October 6th.
All bark – No Bite
Aug Dawg
July 20th, 2012
4:16 pm
Quit whining and just win all your games. You sound like a bunch of cry babies. (If I can’t have the scedule I want then I don’t want to play) Sound familiar? It should that’s all you hear from the biddies. Grow up for cying out loud!!!!
Guthrie of Griffin
July 20th, 2012
4:48 pm
If you ask me, LSU, BAMA, and, Arkansas should be thankful they don’t have to play UGA this year.
Guthrie of Griffin
July 20th, 2012
4:51 pm
If you ask me, LSU, BAMA, and Arkansas got a scheduling break because they don’t have to play UGA this year!
EB
July 20th, 2012
5:04 pm
Come on Richt, surely you can come up with a better retort than that!!
funny...
July 20th, 2012
10:55 pm
After all the wins against Georgia (as a coach) he still can’t let it go.
Georgia fans should take that and laugh a little. After all this time, Georgia still gets to him. Even when he beats Georgia he still can’t stop talking about the Dawgs. It’s tough being the little brother isn’t it Steve. Even if you’ve outshined and passed the older brother.
I still have the shirt after the game Donnan’s team WAXED the gators. Say’s something like “What can I say, Georgia was just the better team”
funny...
July 20th, 2012
10:56 pm
Richt could but he won’t. Straight and narrow with him. Don’t rock the boat.
funny...
July 20th, 2012
10:57 pm
Lattimore is a great talent. I have two things for the MOAG fans out there. 1. Better hope that knee holds, from experience with ACL’s and knees, they’re never really the same. 2. Jarvis Jones will eat his lunch.
funny...
July 20th, 2012
10:58 pm
42 Days, starting to get excited boys, can almost smell that fall air, the grass on the field, the band playing Glory….
It’s going to be fun no matter the results
Ash Adams
July 21st, 2012
8:17 am
We run the east,NO way lattimore runs for more than 100 yards this year! This will be the best UGA defense he has faced and I don’t care what Spurrier says no way he will be the same player after his injury and with that we don’t even know if he will hold up to the UGA game.Yeah you run the east,you’ve been to the sec champioship game once and got thumped,you really run it alright!!
Dog4
July 22nd, 2012
7:49 am
with the dog’s easy schedule, they should easily win the sec east again and play lsu for the title. this year, the dogs will upset lsu and win the title—take it to the bank. this dog D–best in the SEC.
SouthGADawg
July 23rd, 2012
12:32 pm
The UGA defense will be hungry and eager.Its time to feed the dawgs. SC has a lot of talent and good coachs no doubt but GA is after blood and they can expect a beat down in Columbia. They had better learn how to throw the ball and throw it fast.
UpDog
July 23rd, 2012
4:14 pm
Ga will upset south carolina in columbia—mark it down. sc is overrated and with the dog’s d, spurrier’s offense will be shut down!
Andy
July 24th, 2012
9:20 pm
I think Spurrier just like to have a little fun and I think he is a dam good coach that most SEC teams would love to have including Ala before they got Saban. I don’t think anyone should read to much into what Spurrier said about Ga. I think anybody but a fool would rather play Ole Miss than LSU. I wouldn’t care if it PO coach Freeze or not That just the facts that LSU is a better program than Ole Miss at this point and most tlikely will be for years to come. What was the score in the SECC game last. year. I think UGA would have beat OLE MISS like A DRUM!.
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