Spurrier is retiring..

[57stratdawg]

Kind of sad to see him go. Hope they keep him involved around the SEC.

 

[natchezdawg]

Its hard to picture SEC football without the HBC around..

I hate he's going out on a down year.

 

[TBone.sixpack]

Sad day indeed. I don't blame him one bit though.

 

[esplanade91]

Would be surprised if they don't hire Dantonio from Michigan State. Alum, and USC has the money.

 

[thatsbaseball]

"Hope they keep him involved around the SEC"..same here

 

[LTblows]

The coaching carousel this off season might just get whoa crazy crazy

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[was21]

yep...don't think he has a jadaveon clown coming in either...glad he's getting out instead of dying on the sidelines ala Bryant, Paterno...et al

 

[was21]

maybe he can replace LT

 

[thatsbaseball]

He`s been at SoCar at a good time as far as the SEC East is concerned but I believe that`s about to change. His timing is good.

 

[57stratdawg]

Apparently Spurrier is leaving immediately. Not finishing the season. Hope he's healthy.

 

[WrapItDog]

Kinda of surprised he isn't finishing out the season. I watched his interview on Feherty and if not mistaken his two sons and maybe one daughter also work for USCe athletic dept. The whole family may be unemployed by seasons end.

 

[was21]

At one time rumor his son would take over at USCe but have heard nothing lately

 

[thatsbaseball]

I hope he is too. When you think about it though....it really kinda fits his persona to just up and say "I`m done" and get the hell out of the way.

 

[thatsbaseball]

I was thinking Booger

 

[Col. Forbin]

Hopefully we can get him to replace Corso after this season.

 

[was21]

noticed he had a new haircut the other day..that was pretty telling

 

[was21]

can't go too far with that

 

[patdog]

Why retire immediately? Barring a health issue, he should finish out the season. Really, he should have retired after last season. He had to have known he didn't have any talent returning to this team.

 

[WayboDawg]

Why retire immediately? Barring a health issue, he should finish out the season. Really, he should have retired after last season. He had to have known he didn't have any talent returning to this team.

He may be fed up with of all the media hounding and ungratefulness surrounding the USCe program these days. 2 years ago they were coming off of a 4 year stretch that included an SEC East title and 3 straight 11 win seasons, and now everyone is calling for him to hurry up and retire after a couple of down years (where they really aren't all that terrible if we are being honest). I don't blame him. College football is so much different from the 90's where you had at least 5-6 years to build a program, and winning your conference was seen as an excellent season. Now its National Championship by year 2 or else turn in your whistle.

 

[thekimmer]

With his gift of gab he will be in high demand as a talking head.....

Hopefully we can get him to replace Corso after this season.

That is until he offends a person or persons from a protected class. Should be good for at least two weeks.

 

[karlchilders.sixpack]

And so it goes

AD Tanner: Hey coach, things aren't going so well, what do you think about the future? Things have got to get better.

HBC: Yeah, sounds like you want me to retire.

Tanner: well it's not looking good, trends and all.

HBC: Ok then, why wait, I'll just check out now.

 

[rem101]

Twitter say Augusta just opened back up from summer break.

 

[Predestined]

NOT retiring. Resigning. Interesting choice of words.

Said he might coach again...high school. THAT would be interesting...

Denied coaching college again - said it is nothing more than a recruiting game. Hmmm...maybe he could go to the Ivy League.

 

[Dogariffic]

I think less of him for resigning but not retiring. He has basically quiy on his team and walked away mid year. Poor move.

Said he might coach again...high school. THAT would be interesting...

Denied coaching college again - said it is nothing more than a recruiting game. Hmmm...maybe he could go to the Ivy League.

 

[drt7891]

At least finish out the season. He could have simply announced he was leaving at the end of the season. But this move to bail mid season just looks bad all the way around, in my opinion.

Not saying he's right or wrong in his opinion, either.

 

[Cow College]

I think he wanted to give the interim coach a shot to keep the job or get one elsewhere

 

[kired]

I think it's actually better if the AD is at all considering an assistant as his replacement. Gives them half a season to see what they guy can do. This just happens to be 7 years to the day that Dabo Swinney was named interim coach at Clemson --- that seems to have worked out well.

Maybe Shawn Elliott can do the same... maybe he doesn't. But I think giving the guy a shot is better than continuing to waste this year with Spurrier as the head coach if he was going to retire anyway.

 

[CoastDawg18]

I don't like the sudden move either. Short of a health issue within his family it comes across as quitting. I watched the press conference and it was very interesting that he said clearly that he was resigning and not retiring. Doesn't add up for me.