Steve Spurrier gives reward to Dan Mullen for breaking Gators record
Dan Mullen got just what he was hoping for from Steve Spurrier after leading Florida to a season-opening win at Ole Miss on Saturday. Well, close to it anyway.
The Gators broke several offensive records in the season opener as they put up 642 total yards of offense, the most in program history and the most by an SEC team in a conference game. After the game, Mullen pointed out that it’s hard to break records at the school because of Spurrier’s past success, noting that the “Head Ball Coach” should buy him a drink for it.
While Mullen expected a nice bottle of wine, Spurrier later said if Florida wins the SEC championship, he’d bring Mullen two.
But you have to start somewhere, and Spurrier appeared to deliver a small gift to Mullen’s office on Monday. Mullen tweeted out a picture of his gift from Spurrier, which was a bottle of wine — just on a smaller scale:
@SteveSpurrierUF with the reward for the record setting day. Hopefully more on the way. pic.twitter.com/htU0Uq0a9Y
— Dan Mullen (@CoachDanMullen) September 28, 2020
Florida still has some work to do if it hopes to win an SEC title and get Spurrier to give Mullen two (likely full-sized) bottles of wine. But it still got off to an impressive start, which is important in a new season.
The Gators will look to improve to 2-0 this Saturday as they take on South Carolina in their home opener at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium at noon ET on ESPN.
Couldn’t get him a nicer…or bigger bottle? lol
Sutter Home? Really? Why, was Publix out of Bartles & Jaymes?
I’m betting that was a joke for the picture, the good stuff came out later
Spurrier is a sot. No kidding, its no secret to anyone paying attention. Actually the sauce is a big reason he washed out at South Carolina.
You’d be a fool to think he was going to give away any of his prized Miller Lites or Travelers Choice.
Most over rated coach in history.
I’m sure it was Spurrier who said he would be giving Mullen a case of $500.00 a bottle wine, and on his way to buy the wine he decided he didn’t want to play anymore, so he looked in his glove compartment and found what was left over from the 4 pack he consumed for breakfast, that of course someone else had purchased, and stumbled into the locker room and “presented” it to Mullen. Good luck coach and beware, Spurrier will end up screwing you too, and there will be nothing you can do about it!
(Muschamp is not the best coach in the land, but South Carolina continues in it’s attempt to recover from what damage Spurrier did to the South Carolina program by walking away mid-season causing the limited recruits who were in the pipeline to go elsewhere. Naming buildings for Spurrier? Should be limited to toilet stalls as that would be most appropriate…maybe urinals, which would be even better.)
Well said sir. Well said indeed