Steve Spurrier: The Most Advanced Coach in the SEC
Posted on | June 30, 2011 | No Comments
He is beyond whatever level you are.
Steve Spurrier: The Most Advanced Coach in the SEC
I know what you’re thinking. He’s not an offensive genius anymore. He doesn’t throw the ball around the field. He failed in the pros, and he really hasn’t done anything of consequence beyond a division championship in one of the worst years for the SEC East ever. And he’ll never be as good as he was in Florida.
You’re wrong. He’s advanced.
In, ironically, a Columbia, South Carolina Pizza Hut, Jason Hartley and Britt Bergman came up with this theory to explain why musicians decide to do something inexplicable. And the thing of it? It has real world applications.
There are five aspects to someone who has advanced. And as I am want to do? I will break them down right here.
1) You must have done great work for more than 15 years.
Spurrier passes here with flying colors. Between the USFL, college football graveyard Duke, and Florida? He had a career .748 winning percentage. He won seven conference championships and was the coach of the year seven times.The old ball coach knew what he was doing.
2) You must have alienated your original fans.
Here’s the only issue. The USFL is dead and gone. Duke’s a basketball school full stop. And Florida? He has a statue in Florida. Alienation? Nah.
3) You must be completely unironic.
Each and every football coach in the history of America has a minimal sense of irony. Everyone loves Mike Leach for that exact reason. He loves pirates because he loves pirates.
4) You must be unpredictable.
Spurrier was a man who was capricious in his treatment of quarterbacks, not to mention the way he left Florida. I mean, coaches leave college to go to the pros. But Spurrier? He walks away from college football and then takes a few days on the golf course. And then he becomes coach and GM for the Washington Redskins. An overt move, but in the most advanced way possible.
5) You must “lose it” spectacularly.
The pro gig? To say that it didn’t work is a wee bit of an understatement. Two years and out. His last three games in the pros were an 85-31 beatdown. This clinched a 12-20 career record. But his next job?
Think about it. Not only in the same conference, but in the same division where he hit his greatest run ever. And he just couldn’t put a big season together. In fact, he already has over twice as many conference losses in his South Carolina run as Florida run in half the time. (Not to mention 6 more losses overall in an era with much softer scheduling.)
So in four out of the five major aspects, Spurrier passes with flying colors. And there are several subsections that only strengthen the argument.
- Professionalism (Obviously. Why else would he keep getting hired.)
- Technology (Spurrier was the inventor of the fun and gun. And is unafraid to play a true freshman.)
- Spurrier wears black and sports sunglasses. (The wardrobe of the advanced.)
- As the son of a Presbyterian Minister, his religiosity is undeniable.
So what does this mean? Be perfectly honest, the final stage of the advanced artist is someone who returns to form. And Spurrier isn’t exactly stuck in the Kentucky, hey we’re gonna go 6-6 or 7-5 make a bowl every year level.
Just saying. The ol’ ball coach Spurrier is still lurking. Watch out.
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