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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 campaigns of Fred Taylor and Andruw Jones.
