Didn't SCAR beat Tennessee and Florida last year? Is their roster really that much worse this year? I don't know for sure myself...
Anyway, I've alway like the Ole Ball Coach. Can't think of anyone so successful as both a cf player (he won the Heisman) and a cf coach.
The guy is hilarious:
--renamed Florida State University as "Free Shoes University" (after a shoe store gave Florida State players free shoes) .
--questioned the abilities of Head Coach Phillip Fulmer of Tennessee ("You can't spell Citrus without UT") and former Tennessee quarterback Peyton Manning ("I know why Peyton came back for his senior year, he wanted to be a three-time Citrus Bowl MVP"), in reference to the Citrus Bowl being the designated bowl for the second-choice team from the SEC.
--poked fun at a fire that burned 20 books at an Auburn University football dorm, saying "But the real tragedy was that fifteen hadn't been colored yet!"
It would be totally obnoxious if he didn't back it up:
* Six SEC titles (1991, 1993-1996, 2000)
* 3-time SEC Coach of the Year
* Became the first person to have both won a Heisman Trophy and to have coached a Heisman Trophy winner
* Won at least nine games in each of his 12 seasons at Florida, one of only three coaches in major college history with that record.
* Averaged 10 wins per season.
* Ranked in the top 15 nationally in each of his 12 seasons at Florida, including nine Top 10 finishes, five Top 5s and an average final ranking of 6.8.
* Appeared in a bowl game in each of his last 11 seasons, one of only five schools with that record.
* Spurrier is the only major college coach to win as many as 120 games in his first 12 seasons at one school (122-27-1 at Florida from 1990-2001).
* One of only two coaches in major college history to win 10 or more games in six consecutive seasons (1993-98).
Thanks to Wikipedia for the above.
And his biggest accomplishment? He turned Duke into a winner. He'll win at SCAR too, maybe not this year, but soon. He'll make life miserable for Urban Myth.