South Carolina reporter shares interesting stories from Steve Spurrier’s upcoming book
By Jason Hall
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Steve Spurrier’s autobiography, Head Ball Coach: My Life in Football, will be released tomorrow. However, Josh Kendall of The State in South Carolina was given advanced copy of the book and share a few details prior to its release.
According to Kendall, Spurrier claimed he knew his coaching career was over when he entered a much more hospitable Baton Rogue during his final game against LSU last season.
“When I was coaching at Florida and we came to LSU every other year, they would be shooting birds at us, throwing stuff at the bus and yelling, ‘Arrogant, cocky Spurrier, run up the score!’ ” Spurrier told his coaches. “And now they are really nice to us because they know they are going to kick our (behind) today.”
LSU defeated South Carolina 45-24 and the coach announced his resignation three days later. Spurrier details the adversity he faced during the 2014 season at South Carolina. After losing 45-42 against Tennessee on Nov. 1, he left his postgame press conference without answering a single question and had problems sleeping and remembering the cod for his locker and phone numbers later that week.
South Carolina’s team psychologist diagnosed him with “accute stress disorder” and prescribed him sleeping pills, according to Spurrier.
“When you’re the oldest coach in the Southeastern Conference ever at 70 and you’ve had a bellyful, it’s time to step aside and give somebody else a chance,” he claimed.
You can read more of Kendall’s article at The State‘s website here.
Jason covers SEC football for Saturday Down South.
