Steve Spurrier zings Will Muschamp with classic Head Ball Coach response when asked about Gamecocks firing coach
If there’s one man who understands Will Muschamp’s career, it’s a coach who came before him at Florida and South Carolina. Steve Spurrier is known for giving candid responses to questions, especially about other coaches.
This time, following Muschamp’s firing at South Carolina, Spurrier offered this response:
“Well, he’s not going away empty-pocketed. He knows how to get big contracts, I’ll tell you that,” Spurrier told Mike Gillespie of ABC-Columbia.
Spurrier referred to Muschamp having four years remaining on his contract, and his buyout from the school is $13.2 million.
Muschamp’s record at South Carolina, in the middle of his fifth season, was 28-30 at South Carolina, and 28-21 at Florida.
Muschamp was head coach at Florida from 2011-14 and was fired in November of his final season after an overtime loss to South Carolina.
The two head coaching stints were similar. He led Florida to a BCS bowl and an 11-2 mark his second year there before he went 10-13 before his dismissal there.
At South Carolina, Muschamp became the first coach to reach bowl games in his first three seasons and went 9-4 in his second season, a stat he often referred to when job security questions came up. But the Gamecocks fell to 7-6, 4-8 and 2-5 since. He was 17-22 against the SEC at South Carolina.
Savage.
ATTENTION UGA’S KIRBY SMART….
HIRE MUSCHAMP RIGHT THIS SECOND!!!!! NOW!!!!
THE MAN CAN RECRUIT AND COACH DEFENSE!!! A FEW OF THOSE BIG TIME RECRUITS HE BEAT YOU OUT FOR, MIGHT JUMP INTO THE PORTAL. THEY LOVED COACH MUSCHAMP!!!!! THIS IS YOUR SECOND CHANCE TO BOTH GET THESE ELITE PLAYERS AND HAVE A GUY LIKE SABAN HAD YOU!!!!
BOTH FROM UGA!!!!!!!!! This could be exactly what you need to help win a national championship!!!! BOTH OF YOU RECRUITING AND COACHING THE DEFENSE ALONG WITH OUR CURRENT DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR? PLEASE HIRE HIM TO COACH DBS OR SOMETHING!!!! ANYTHING!!!!!
BUT GET HIM RIGHT NOW BEFORE MULLEN REALIZES THAT GRANTHAM AIN’T THE GUY!!!!
KIRBY, IF YOU WAIT UNTIL MULLEN HIRES HIM. YOU’LL HAVE A REAL HEADACHE TO DEAL WITH THEN!!!!
DON’T LET THAT HAPPEN!!!!!
PS. MUSCHAMP DON’T GO TO THE ENEMY GATORS AGAIN!!!
King Negan
HBC still has it.
Maybe Champ can go somewhere as a DC and eventually show enough to become the next HC at Duke.
lol What you got against Duke :)
Spurrier coached at Duke at the start of his career. It’s a dig at Muschamp following Spurrier around (Florida, then SC.)
Hatin’ Ass Steve Spurrier.
Oh Steve you so crazy.
What a classy guy
what was his record vs the mutts?.. oh yeah, 11-1
go gators loser
burn!
Sounds like nothing but the truth to me.
Spurrier tells it like it is…always has. Plus he gave SC the
“only glory years” the program has ever had.” Will’s gotten rich by being a failed-head coach at two(2) SEC programs.
It’s like these coaches hit the jackpot by failing. Why do these schools keep giving coaches “failure money”, by including theses ridiculous buyouts? Tennessee certainly has paid their share of it. Got to stop at some point.
It’s called Jimmy Sexton!!!
ATTENTION UGA’S KIRBY SMART….
HIRE MUSCHAMP RIGHT THIS SECOND!!!!! NOW!!!!
THE MAN CAN RECRUIT AND COACH DEFENSE!!! A FEW OF THOSE BIG TIME RECRUITS HE BEAT YOU OUT FOR, MIGHT JUMP INTO THE PORTAL. THEY LOVED COACH MUSCHAMP!!!!! THIS IS YOUR SECOND CHANCE TO BOTH GET THESE ELITE PLAYERS AND HAVE A GUY LIKE SABAN HAD YOU!!!!
BOTH FROM UGA!!!!!!!!! This could be exactly what you need to help win a national championship!!!! BOTH OF YOU RECRUITING AND COACHING THE DEFENSE ALONG WITH OUR CURRENT DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR? PLEASE HIRE HIM TO COACH DBS OR SOMETHING!!!! ANYTHING!!!!!
BUT GET HIM RIGHT NOW BEFORE MULLEN REALIZES THAT GRANTHAM AIN’T THE GUY!!!!
KIRBY, IF YOU WAIT UNTIL MULLEN HIRES HIM. YOU’LL HAVE A REAL HEADACHE TO DEAL WITH THEN!!!!
DON’T LET THAT HAPPEN!!!!!
PS. MUSCHAMP DON’T GO TO THE ENEMY GATORS AGAIN!!! I MEAN IT!!!!!
King Negan
Yes but he couldn’t sustain it. It got so bad he quit in the middle of the year.
We were pretty good with Lou Holtz. Not as good as we were with Spurrier, but some excitement, such as beating Ohio State back to back in bowl games, which got their coach fired.
Don’t flatter yourself. It was John Cooper’s 2-10-1 record against Michigan that got him fired. Not some irrelevant bowl game loss to South Carolina.
agreed
Maybe he should have quit…wait, that’s what HBC did…
Agreed, you beat me to it. 2015, SC was 2-4 and Spurrier quit. 2020, SC is 2-5, Muschamp did not quit, he was fired. The Ol’ Ball Sack Has had some great “ zingers” over the years but should probably just stay away from this one.
Get real. He’s coached less than a season of any football since. He felt he was “getting in the way.” ESPN made a documentary of him about a year before he quit and he was way beyond his prime.
I dunno, that season he coached at the AAF was pretty good. He had the Apollos 8-0 when the league folded.
Yep and the Apollos had an impressive offense. HBC style, air raid.
Yeah, Spurrier didn’t even want to TRY to do it – just walked away – at least Muschamp went down fighting!
Yeah, Spurrier also didn’t go down with the ship just to get his buyout either. He left about 3 million on the table because he knew it was time. He did get paid through the end of the year though, donating his last check of 70k to the gamecock club. He gave USC the best 4 year stretch in their history. Told me he just couldn’t take the techno music and rooster calls anymore…
Dress this up as Spurrier not taking the buyout all you want. He quit on the team and it isn’t any more noble than that.
Guys! Spurrier made a mistake when he hinted at retirement during his coaching tenure. Spurrier tried to walk it back but it killed him big time on the recruiting front. Spurrier knew he needed to step down and he hasn’t coached since. Spurrier did not quit on the team, he simply retired.
Coaching college football was just getting too much in the way of his time on the golf course each year. You have to respect that.
Bahahaha!!!
LOL…Comparing Champ to SOS in any capacity is laughable.
That is irrelevant, but maybe you guys can’t handle the truth
The funny part is that Muschamp probably gets more $ in buyouts from UF and USC than Spurrier got to actually coach at the same schools.
A high paid failure from two institutions of higher learning.
longsuffering…quite true. Seems like Will had one good year at Florida and one decent year at South Carolina & parlayed those two(2) years into huge buyouts. What a failure as a HC.
Spurrier is getting senile. The guy just seems to have zero class anymore.
Never did have any class really…Tennessee honored him for his contribution to college ball. Considering how bad he used to talk smack about them it was pretty classy to do that.
He is known for many things, but being classy has never been one.
He still triggers you dawg lovers for sure. Remember when he hung over 50 on UGA in Athens because it hadn’t been done before. Moose dump can go back to UGA!
Remember Spurrier’s last trip to Athens?
Spurrier quipped, “With all that talent Georgia has, it seems like they would win more”. That rattled the cage.
He may have rattled UGAs cage but he drove SC’s program into a ditch. Go ahead and erect that monument to him outside Williams-Brice.
You don’t need to have class when you get to tear apart an ugly drooling british useless dog! LOL
Spurrier never had any class. He got away with it at the schools he worked for because he could win.
Spurrier is a sot. He hasn’t drawn a sober breath in years.
Consider the source.
What’s funny really is that he is constantly busting on the Coots, yet they continue to hold him in such high regard.
I’m pretty sure ol’ Corch would let the Old Ball Coach go soft in his jaw given the opportunity. Its a Cock thing I guess
Your friend,
Butch
I like how all you salty a$$ spurrier haters run your mouths about him… That dude was pretty classy beating the breaks off all your programs for over a decade… guess you gotta take your shots while you can!!! He owned all y’alls programs a$$es!!! And news flash!!! that dude could give 2 runny s@*ts what anyone thinks about him outside of Gainesville!!! Just so you know!!!
Everyone in this discussion is correct. Spurrier owned all these teams. Spurrier doesn’t care what anyone thinks of him. He is a d-bag. It’s all true.
Coming from a UGA fan…
What did he say that was so bad? “He’s not going away empty handed” or “he’s knows how to get a contract” which one offended your poor little feelings? I swear this politically correct society we live in today is nothing but a nursery for a bunch of pansies. I get fans from teams all over the SEC taking their jabs but at least have a pair and admit it’s because he tore your rear end up and then let you know he did it. He shouldn’t be called classless because of “he’s not going away empty handed”. Good lord…
“which one offended your poor little feelings”
You realize people can not like what someone says without getting their feelings hurt or having feelings involved, right? In my opinion, I found what Spurrier said to be classless. It was clearly a jab. Look past the semantics and the meaning and intent are clear. And you know what? It’s ok for people either to not like Spurrier or this particular comment. It doesn’t make people “snowflakes” and it isn’t an extension of a “politically correct society”. In summation, your diatribe is wrong and you seem more upset than most here that people have a different viewpoint than you.
I never said it was politically incorrect or classless. I said the guy quit on his team, which is demonstrably true. I also said he was a D-bag, which is also demonstrably true. His Florida teams were far better than UGA and his W-L record against the Dawgs proves it, so you got me there. I was kinda hoping this guy would climb into a bottle of bourbon and live out his days (quietly) on Crescent Beach. But, you can always count on him to pipe in with a quip that make his supporters giggle.
I never said snowflake but I reckon the shoe fits.
Never said you said that. But you’re right, that shoe does apparently fit you very well.
Lol. I’m the snowflake? Get real man. I’m not the one irritated, attacking a man’s character on a forum over a comment stating the obvious to a reporter over the phone.
Also, in part two of your sermon on my “diatribe”, you indicated I thought people were either a snowflake or politically incorrect. Let me clear it up for you, I don’t think you are an extension of a politically correct society but I’m quite certain there’s a chance of you melting.
Attacking a man’s character?
If that’s you interpretation, you’re even more delicate than I thought. Poor little guy.
Newsflash to you: Spurrier ran his mouth about our programs for years, so we can say whatever we want about him and he has no defense. Also, none of us, except you I guess, gives a crap what he says. I’m surprised he actually cares about anyone’s opinion, even in Gainesville.
You say something bout sucking a big one Butch. I couldn’t quite understand you.
I said, and by the way I stand by what I said, anyway…..I said “ole Corch would let the Old Ball Coach go soft in his jaw given the opportunity. Its a Cock thing I guess”
The coots look up to Spurrier just like gatorboy’s mama looks up at me when she’s doing her “thing”. Corch is no different, just look at some of the jizz that dribbles out of his mouth.
So anyway, I believe Corch would let the Old Ball Coach go soft in his jaw given the opportunity. Its in his nature
Hope that clears things up for you
Your friend,
Butch
He beat Alabama that way too….says something about the state of your program back them…
? He Zinged somebody? With what? That’s not a Zing or Praise either one. He simply referred to the agreement that South Carolina made with Muschamp. On the surface we think it says: Institution offers $,$$$,$$$. to have coach till XX/XX/XXXX date. Spurrier is not saying Muschamp defaulted….. and he not saying Muschamp is a bad coach…. and not even saying Muschamp is getting a raw deal…..he simply says Muschamp is getting paid one way or the other. He’s not making a judgement about U. of S. Carolina either. Here’s the sad part of this. A lot of people look at a quote like this as “cool”, or “smart”, or “code for something”, it’s not any of that manure. There is some humor in dancing around a topic without taking sides, but nobody should yell out halleuyah from the back pew about this quote. ggggeeeezzzz
I agree with wolfman. Finally someone with common sense. He danced around the question is all.
Steve just jelly he didn’t get those big buyouts.
The guy left Darren McFadden off his Heisman vote, the year DMC put up 360 on SC. He’s a salty biotch.
Yup. The entire reason he used to torture UT with zingers is because being a Johnson City boy, he remains pissed off that UT didn’t recruite him out of high school.
He won’t admit it but that has been a thorn in his paw for decades
People can have their opinions but they shouldn’t just outright lie. Spurrier was recruited heavily by Tennessee. They had an interim coach because Bowden Wyatt was let go and were in disarray. UF didn’t offer Spurrier until January.
By the way, Spurrier was born in Florida.
Gator73…Spurrier grew up in Johnson City Tennessee and played High School football there. Not sure of his birth-city but JC Tenn. was home for many years.
Yes he hoods a grudge forever, and will rub it in every single opportunity he gets.
I remember how UF treated Kentucky those few years when Bill Curry was there? Brutal.
This is probably true.
BUT…he was recruited by Tennessee.
Since when has he liked running backs? Felix Jones was also very good so maybe it just wasn’t McFadden.
Yeah and I don’t know how because he ran with his head down and just tried to run over people. He didn’t look for a hole or wait on one to develop. He took a lot of hard hits in his career. Missouri knocked him silly in the Cotton Bowl.
Spurrier is the Nancy Pelosi of college football. “Please just let me be famous for one more year”.
And you are like that orange idiot tRump, making stuff up. I have been an UGA fan since 1960 and Spurrier kicked UGA’s ass 11 out of 12 times while at UF Gators. Not only that but he turned Duke and USC into winners.
I can’t even imagine someone using Pelosi and Spurrier in the same sentence. SICK!
kirby dumb dog is Tracy Lords of college football, ” I was a 5 star assistant…let me be a 5 star head assistant…LOL
Contributions that head ball coach made to SEC is invaluable. 20 years after Steve Supurier stepping down at Florida college football is finding that DEFENCE does not win championship.
Anyone who has excelled in any position or sport has the haters(it’s called jealousy). Spurrier achieved great success in the SEC & thus the haters come out.
Defense won plenty of championships after Spurrier stepped down in Florida.
I should have gone into coaching. Getting paid millions for performing a job worse than your peers and getting paid handsomely not to show up for work.
Spurrier quit SCAR because he couldn’t stomach being the among the elite company of coaches (add Stoops of Kentucky) to lose to butch jones 3 years in a row.
That would have negated at least one National Championship in respect.
I agree 100%.
As far as the drunken sot Spurrier goes, you can’t spell Butch nor Quit without UT.
Fact
I love Spurrier but he should have keep out of this one. At least Muschamp didn’t abandon SC in the middle of the season
Do you honestly think Muschamp’s heart was in it the last few weeks, giving up about 50 points a game?
Will’s heart in it ? No…he knew his fate already…just had to have one more insane “Boom” rage moment in his last game as a head coach in college football.
“Similar”? I believe Spurrier’s record is a hell of a lot more memorable.
If Champ really wanted to be like the HBC he should have gotten kicked off his TV coaches show for being a drunk and quit on his team halfway through the season
Don’t forget, picking a fight with that reporter at The State. Getting him “reassigned” to cover some local nonsense instead of Carolina football.
Big words from a man who quit on his team in season..
If there was zinger I didn’t see it. Pretty much said Muschamp made out. Better than Goober Dabo worrying about multimillionaire family.
Well the ball coach quit on two teams in the muddle of seasons so I think he need be better served by not running his mouth and kicking a man that is down well I guess he learned that growing yp in east Tennessee and at Florida
What was the 2nd team?
This doesn’t really come across as a zinger. I think he wishes he had his agent.
He is hillbilly at heart even though father was preacher. He wanted out of east tn so settled in Fla sunshine. He has held grudges against both TN and UGA his whole life. He beat us. So what. Maybe he is rich and lives it up on Crescent beach. He’s had his moments and history no doubt. But he has always had bitter feuds within himself. Maybe he lives on “half a hundred” between hedges or UT “can’t spell citrus without UT”. If that is what satisfies him by all means. He is growing old now and what he says means less as time goes on.
Yes. He beat Tennessee. A lot.
But I take comfort from this; His last home game as the HBC in Gainesville in 2001 was a loss to the Vols. As a 17 point underdog, Tennessee won the division, knocked Florida out of the SEC Championship, and took their #2 BCS ranking. (Then promptly stepped on it the following week.)
Also that Lyle the Intern never lost to Spurrier. That 2014 game was the one where UT was down by 14 points with a couple of minutes left in the game and absolutely stole it. Spurrier’s press conference was like two sentences and he was out.
Good times.
LMAO he’s the best.
All of you who are offended by what the ole ball coach said, im sorry guys, but as another post said , you all are a bunch of snowflakes. Another post said the only one’s offended are the one’s Spurrier owned . im an UGA Fan. Spurrier was one of the greatest college coaches ever. Just because a man talks smack and usually backs it up doesn’t deserve all the negative comments that are xoneing from the one’s teams Spurrier owned. Alot of people on this site talk smack dailey. Still doesn’t take away from the fact that Sourrier is one of the GOAT. So all of you snowflakes can get over it.
Anyone that was offended by Coach Steve Spurrier said about Will’s buyouts is definitely a “snowflake”. When any person speaks the bona fide truth…it is the truth, not a slam at anyone. Thicken your skin “snowflakes” if you want to live in what’s called the Real-World…sometimes it’s not pretty out there.
I said “LMAO he’s the best.” I’m not “offended” in the least. Next time reply to the correct comment.
“scribe”…I responded to anyone that felt Spurrier’s comment was anything but the truth…not your comment.
If the other SEC fans don’t hate you, your not doing it right!
Why would any big time program let Muschamp less be a head coach again! D-II yes not D-I. As S.S. (The Ball Coach) says he has definitely filled his pockets everywhere he’s been!
If Will is ever hired as a head coach at any level college program it will show the total-incompetence of that school’s Athletic Director.
God bless the HBC. The SEC without Spurrier is not near as fun or interesting.
I said what I said becuase it’s true. Bill Stanfill ate him up in 1966. And later Dooley had lineman score a touchdown against them. He forever held a grudge and he avenged it. Great coach or not it is indicative that he had father issues and was driven to prove others wrong and to right the wrongs he perceived done to him. He can drown it out with Bourbon all he wants. He is successful in all he does. But he is not at peace in his heart until he meets his maker. And he will go down fighting. He is getting old now and soon he will be like Pat Dye( rip) and an occasional Finnebaum guest who laughs him off and says “thanks coach”. Here’s wishing him happy days and long living.