South Carolina hosted the No. 1 basketball team in the country Saturday in Kentucky, but Steve Spurrier stole the spotlight.
Gamecocks football finished up a disappointing year last month after three consecutive 11-win seasons and a lofty preseason ranking. With talk of Spurrier potentially retiring at some point in the near future, a sparkling recruiting class has shown signs of instability.
Spurrier, always entertaining with a microphone in front of him, leveraged a nationally-televised ESPN game Saturday to generate some buzz for his football team, including a TV interview and a chance to address the crowd (and recruits) at halftime.
Gamecock fans at CLA chanted "5 more years" as Spurrier was being interviewed by ESPN. #GOAT pic.twitter.com/Yh2qOHx2b9
— Elle ✝️?? (@InGodWeTrust33) January 24, 2015
Steve Spurrier just told crowd: "Kentucky may have the No. 1 men's team in the country, but we've got the No. 1 women's team in country."
— John Clay (@johnclayiv) January 24, 2015
Spurrier: you have to celebrate "small accomplishments. We had a winning season and got us a big trophy" pointing out grandiose DC trophy.
— Michael Haney (@MHaneyMusic) January 24, 2015
Spurrier fantastic. Says this time last year, they were talking about how great his team had just done. "Not talking about that this year."
— Kyle Tucker (@KyleTucker_ATH) January 24, 2015
"Our commitment to you is we're going to do better this (upcoming) year." – Spurrier at halftime #Gamecocks
— Spurs & Feathers (@SpursFeathers) January 24, 2015
Spurrier tells USC fans to circle November 28th.
— SportsTalk Media Network (@sportstalksc) January 24, 2015
Spurrier referred to Clemson as "that orange team" cue the overreacting and flipping out from Clemson fans.
— Palmetto Belle (@Palmetto_Belle) January 24, 2015
Spurrier says they can't be number 92 in the nation in defense & Clemson be number 1 and expect to go into their house and beat them.
— William Gunter (@WilGunter) January 24, 2015
Basically, been a long time since Spurrier experienced losing to Tigers. Not sure people would expect. That they enjoyed it? Accept it?
— William Gunter (@WilGunter) January 24, 2015
Steve Spurrier and multiple players from the football team were introduced at half time. Spurrier full of great jokes, per usual.
— Nathan Palm (@NathanPalmTV) January 24, 2015
"Without this guy, we don't have a winning season, we don't win a bowl game." -Spurrier on QB Dylan Thompson
— TheBigSpur.com (@TheBigSpur247) January 24, 2015
"We gotta find a real quarterback most of the time"
-Steve Spurrier at half of UK-USC— Cole Cubelic (@colecubelic) January 24, 2015
Spurrier said at this time he's not aware of any potential summer time quarterback transfer into the program.
— SportsTalk Media Network (@sportstalksc) January 24, 2015
Spurrier also tells media, he was in workout room on treadmill & saw QBs Orth & Scarneccia doing extra work. Didn't see Connor Mitch.
— William Gunter (@WilGunter) January 24, 2015
Spurrier said he could add another coach to his staff without losing any current coach.
— SportsTalk Media Network (@sportstalksc) January 24, 2015
Spurrier says spring practice will start for Gamecocks March 17th & Spring Game will be April 11th.
— William Gunter (@WilGunter) January 24, 2015
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Columbia. Where Spurrier making a halftime statement overshadows a game against #1 team in college basketball.
— Joe Wright (@Sctvman) January 24, 2015
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