Steve Spurrier: Clemson fans wouldn’t have booed if they had beaten me more at USC
By Andrew Olson
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Prior to kickoff of Monday’s national championship game, former Florida and South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier was recognized as a second-time inductee to the College Football Hall of Fame. With many Clemson fans in attendance, the Head Ball Coach was showered with boos.
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Spurrier told friend and co-author of his book Buddy Martin that he knows why Tigers fans were booing him: South Carolina’s five-year winning streak from 2009-13.
“If they’d have been kicking my butt up there every year those people would have been clapping,” Spurrier told Martin.
Spurrier, who went 6-4 in 10 games against the Tigers didn’t seem to mind the boos at all, joking that the Clemson faithful wanted his picture:
“Tell ’em I didn’t mind at all and it didn’t hurt my feelings one bit,” Spurrier told me Wednesday. “In fact, the louder the better. That was a loud one. As long as they’re loud!”
Then he laughed and said, “Some of them were the same fans who were lined up in the hotel lobby asking for a picture to be made with them.”
While Tigers fans understandably remain bitter toward Spurrier and anything to do with the Gamecocks, one reporter shared a video of Clemson coach Dabo Swinney having a friendly conversation with Spurrier and Peyton Manning before the game.
Steve Spurrier, Peyton Manning and Dabo Swinney talking before the #CFBPlayoff #nationalchampionship game. pic.twitter.com/K8BptvqVlx
— Duane Rankin (@DuaneRankin) January 10, 2017
Andrew writes about sports to fund his love of live music and collection of concert posters. He strongly endorses the Hall of Fame campaign of Fred Taylor.
