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*** GET IT TODAY: The Spurrier Effect: How One Coach Transformed Gamecock Football

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GamecockCentral.com is proud to partner with USC Press for the release of The Spurrier Effect: How One Coach Transformed Gamecock Football.

When Steve Spurrier took over USC’s “underachieving” football program in 2005, he changed South Carolina football forever. Relive the most successful era in Gamecock football history though vivid storytelling by Brent Silvia and GC's own Kevin Miller

Featuring historic seasons, victories over rival schools, and the development of future NFL stars Jadeveon Clowney, Alshon Jeffery, and Stephon Gilmore, the book includes exclusive interviews with players, the Head Ball Coach himself, and a foreword from Connor Shaw.

The Spurrier Effect is now available in hardcover and ebook at uscpress.com.

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Just want to say that Steve Spurrier proved that South Carolina football does not have to settle for mediocrity. We can be nationally relevant in football. For that he has my forever gratitude.
 
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Spurrier proved that HE could be nationally relevant at ANY school, and we were blessed beyond description to have him. Get yourself another Spurrier and you’ll be nationally relevant again, because that’s what it will take.
 
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There are coaches out there that can make a school nationally relevant. It just depends on whether you want to hire a proven Head Coach (a Cignetti, Kiffen, Cristobal, Drinkwitz) or roll the dice on someone who has never been a Head Coach nor even Coordinator (Dabo). It can happen with either type. But the later are fewer in number.
 
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There are coaches out there that can make a school nationally relevant. It just depends on whether you want to hire a proven Head Coach (a Cignetti, Kiffen, Cristobal, Drinkwitz) or roll the dice on someone who has never been a Head Coach nor even Coordinator (Dabo). It can happen with either type. But the later are fewer in number.
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(Dabo or Beamer).
 
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I'm not sure Spurrier "changed South Carolina football forever". In fact, it looks more like South Carolina football changed Steve Spurrier. He had never quit on a team mid season before, but South Carolina football drove him to do that.

In the 10 seasons after Spurrier left, South Carolina has gone 61-63. I'm sorry, I don't see that change the book talks about.
 
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Piscis said:
I'm not sure Spurrier "changed South Carolina football forever". In fact, it looks more like South Carolina football changed Steve Spurrier. He had never quit on a team mid season before, but South Carolina football drove him to do that.

In the 10 seasons after Spurrier left, South Carolina has gone 61-63. I'm sorry, I don't see that change the book talks about.
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Uhhh, yeah, I loved Spurrier but unfortunately nothing transformed. We had 3 unreal years (by our standards...and even then we still Gamecocked it up by blowing chances to make the SECCG with dumb losses).

We were in arguably worse shape when he left us than when he arrived. And we've been middling overall since then, which is our historical norm.
 
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Piscis said:
I'm not sure Spurrier "changed South Carolina football forever". In fact, it looks more like South Carolina football changed Steve Spurrier. He had never quit on a team mid season before, but South Carolina football drove him to do that.

In the 10 seasons after Spurrier left, South Carolina has gone 61-63. I'm sorry, I don't see that change the book talks about.
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Wow, bizarre. While totally true, it’s absolutely weird that it’s been 10 years and 124 games since then.
 
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Wow, bizarre. While totally true, it’s absolutely weird that it’s been 10 years and 124 games since then.
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There are a lot of gamecock fans that will happily live off of those three Spurrier seasons for decades to come. In their minds, those three seasons were very recent history. Today's freshmen were 8 years old and likely mostly unaware of those seasons.
 
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There are a lot of gamecock fans that will happily live off of those three Spurrier seasons for decades to come. In their minds, those three seasons were very recent history. Today's freshmen were 8 years old and likely mostly unaware of those seasons.
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Those 3 seasons are absolutely irrelevant. Something only Gamecocks fans talk about or remember. They don't even register a faint blip on the radar screen of college football over the last decade.

The worst P4 team ever won a championship last season. Our 3 greatest seasons ever, in which we failed to even advance to the conference title game, are small time.
 
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