The Spurrier rumor comes to rest

[o_dawgnabit]

Not sure if y’all listened to Bo Bounds this morning, but he had spurrier on and asked spurrier about it. He said it’s true and that he wanted the job. It Was right after the USFL fell apart. He interviewed on campus and then went and interviewed at LSU. He never got a call back from either one. He says he is not a good interview and says that’s why he thinks he didn’t get a call back. Went on to take the Duke HC job and we hired Felker

 

[Willow Grove Dawg]

It is difficult to believe that Rockey was a better interview than Spurrier. I was @ MSU at the time and remember all the rumors about Spurrier being on campus for an interview.

 

[paindonthurt_]

But rocky was a good ole boy.

 

[Shmuley]

This needs to be on Lonnie Tinkle's tombstone: "Interviewed Felker and Spurrier. Hired Felker."

 

[57stratdawg]

Not much else needs to be said about the man’s life

 

[HumpDawgy]

Just think, Spurrier could have been just another person that the Gators poached from us.


I can see how Spurrier could possibly rub someone wrong during an interview. "You mean you guys don't even have a chili's?"

 

[shotgunDawg]

This needs to be on Lonnie Tinkle's tombstone: "Interviewed Felker and Spurrier. Hired Felker."

Not to defend Lonnie in any way, but for historical accuracy's sake, Spurrier said he interviewed with Carr. Not Lonnie

 

[karlchilders.sixpack]

Maybe, but he was not AD at that time.

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[AusTexDawg]

Just think, Spurrier could have been just another person that the Gators poached from us.


I can see how Spurrier could possibly rub someone wrong during an interview. "You mean you guys don't even have Arby's?"

FIFY. Danver's probably wasn't good enough for him.
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[Dawgzilla]

You guys are crazy. The SEC is a defense and run-oriented league. Spurrier's crazy, pass happy offense would never work in the SEC.**

 

[the dog is on the loose]

If anybody has ever heard a Rocky postgame interview after many of our losses it's hard to believe he was a good interview.

 

[Dawgzilla]

I was in school back then, and I really felt like Rockey was our fallback hire after getting little interest from others. Just like Richard Williams in basketball. And, of course, everyone will say "why not Spurrier?" but he may have wanted too much money, or maybe as I was suggesting above it just didn't seem like a pass happy USFL coach was the right fit for State. It's easy to look back in hindsight and think about how much fun it would have been to have Spurrier at the helm for 5 or 6 years, but that wasn't so obvious back then. We basically would have been like Kentucky under Hal Mumme, but it certainly would have been entertaining....of course we might also have missed out on Sherrill, so who knows?

 

[patdog]

At the time, Spurrier was a cocky former Heisman Trophy QB at Florida with a very mediocre NFL career. His coaching experience was 4 years as an assistant on bad college teams, and 3 years head coach in an upstart league where he had pretty good but not great regular seasons and was 0-2 in the playoffs. In hindsight, hell yes we should have hired him. And even at the time, that's a better resume than Rockey had. But it wasn't quite as bad a decision at the time as it seems now. Hell, LSU passed over him to hire Mike Archer too.

 

[Philly Dawg]

If Spurrier had been offered and taken the MSU job, his career might have gone quite differently.

 

[Dawgzilla]

He's still a "cocky former Heisman Trophy QB at Florida with a very mediocre NFL career", but he wound up building a decent resume.

 

[patdog]

No **** that IN HINDSIGHT, it was a collosal 17-up not to hire him. But AT THE TIME, he wasn't exactly the top hot commodity as a head coach. It was STILL a bad decision even then, because Rockey's resume was worse.

 

[HumpDawgy]

Spurrier had head coaching experience, Rocky was a position coach at Bama.

 

[patdog]

Yeah, he would have coached at MSU for 1 year before Florida hired him instead of at Duke, and we would have gotten that 1 vote in the coaches poll all those years.

 

[patdog]

Did you miss the part where I've twice said it was a bad decision even then? Just not as bad as it was in hindsight. Mike Archer didn't have any head coaching experience either.

 

[Philly Dawg]

Florida wasn’t the Florida we know now back then and probably couldn’t/wouldn’t have hired a coach away from another SEC program. And he’d have been in an awfully run athletic department.

 

[patdog]

Good point. Spurrier would have had 3 or 4 years at MSU before UF fired Galen Hall. So maybe it would have been different.

 

[fishwater99]

Damn, my college football years would have been so much better..

 

[HumpDawgy]

It wouldn't have been a huge difference. Rocky was 6-5 (86), 4-7 (87), 1-10 (88), 5-6 (89) while Spurrier was 5-6 (87), 7-3-1 (88), and 8-4 (89) at Duke. While those records were better than Felker at State, they weren't earth shattering success like he had in Gainesville. And for anyone thinking he would stay here instead of going home to Florida after the 89 season are being ridiculous. A year's supply of Danvers would not keep him here.

 

[WilCoDawg]

With his record coaching in Starkville, I’m sure the injuns would’ve let his career taken a different trajectory.

 

[Dawgzilla]

Yeah, the record wouldn't have been great, but it would have been a lot more fun to watch. Plus you would get great quotes from the Head Ball Coach. If he could have signed Shane Matthews, that would have been exciting, too.

 

[dawgoneyall]

That isn't exactly true. Was offered...accepted and got pissed at out AD over something and left.

 

[fishwater99]

That isn't exactly true. Was offered...accepted and got pissed at out AD over something and left.

That makes more sense to me..

 

[Dr. Funke.sixpack]

According to my pops, he wanted a 10 year deal. Which was the biggest hang up. Don’t know if true, but that was the word.

 

[Carbaryl]

To pour more salt on the wound, Gary Patterson and Jimbo Fisher were highly interested in the State job ,but we went with Croom!Patterson had his resume sent to Templeton's office the day after JWS retired.

 

[Dawg1976]

I remember very well when ESPN mentioned that he was expected to be named our HC. I was excited as hell.....but no announcement.

 

[jeremyrbrown]

That isn't exactly true. Was offered...accepted and got pissed at out AD over something and left.

I heard we wouldn't give him the budget he wanted for assistant coaches, so the deal fell through.

 

[MSUDawgFan86]

Not much else needs to be said about the man’s life

Hahahaha smh seriously. What a boneheaded decision that was.

 

[MSUDawgFan86]

It wouldn't have been a huge difference. Rocky was 6-5 (86), 4-7 (87), 1-10 (88), 5-6 (89) while Spurrier was 5-6 (87), 7-3-1 (88), and 8-4 (89) at Duke. While those records were better than Felker at State, they weren't earth shattering success like he had in Gainesville. And for anyone thinking he would stay here instead of going home to Florida after the 89 season are being ridiculous. A year's supply of Danvers would not keep him here.

Ok buddy anytime you are talking about a difference in 6 wins in a single season then yes it is a big difference. 7-3-1 is a helluva lot better than tech and 10. I also have a question. Who cares if he only stayed 3-4 years? Why does it matter if he does well and leaves? It’s a nice reprieve from someone sucking *** for 5-6 years and leaving. Felker, Croom, Shira, etc. Everyone in our history expect for Darrell Royal and Dan Mullen has ended ****** or sucked *** for years before they left. As long as they do well the program keeps going. Go get the next coach and keep stepping.

 

[Walter White.sixpack]

Any truth to the rumors he was considering MSU again after Jackie left, but LT went with Croom instead and SS went to Carolina?

 

[memphisbulldog]

Any truth to the rumors he was considering MSU again after Jackie left, but LT went with Croom instead and SS went to Carolina?

Rumors abound on this one also but I was fairly close to the situation and the answer is no. He was not interested. He did get a phone call.

 

[dawgoneyall]

That isn't exactly true. Was offered...accepted and got pissed at out AD over something and left.

And this from President of the College board at around that time.

Carr made an agreement and when "The Ball Coach" came to sign....Carr told him we have a few things to work out (what those few things were I don't know) but Spurrier told Carr that the deal was made when I got on the plane to come here....got up and left. Now... is that all true...from the person who told me this I completely believe that is what went down.

I have always said only MSU could 17 up hiring Spurrier.

 

[War Machine Dawg]

To pour more salt on the wound, Gary Patterson and Jimbo Fisher were highly interested in the State job ,but we went with Croom!Patterson had his resume sent to Templeton's office the day after JWS retired.

We could've easily hired Jimbo. And the rumor at the time was that it would have been a package deal with Muschamp coming as the DC. But we hired Crxxm. I'd have taken the alleged NCAA sanctions over the self-imposed death penalty.