Mark Bradley

By Jack Mehoff

September 11, 2008 8:50 AM | Link to this

It’s not like South Carolina is some powerhouse team, Mr. Bradley. They have lost their last 5 conference games in a row, and Vandy beat them 2 years running.

South Carolina…….The Graveyard for Hall of Fame coaches.

By HAHAHAHAHA

September 11, 2008 8:56 AM | Link to this

HAHAHAHA!!!!

NEVER!!!! He wouldnt feel sorry for us!!! He is the new Ray Goff!!

By GetOverIt

September 11, 2008 8:56 AM | Link to this

“Please allow me to introduce myself, Im a man of no class and taste” woo woo

By Lowcountry Bulldawg

September 11, 2008 8:59 AM | Link to this

I know you use sympathy tongue in cheek, but never will there be a spot for that within Bulldog nation. Spurrier get what he deserves for spending most of the 90’s kicking our butts and being a continual jerk about it!

GOOO DAWGS!

By EvilDumbo

September 11, 2008 8:59 AM | Link to this

He’s probably having second thoughts about choosing USC in a fit of pique over how he was treated by Florida. Pride, falls, and all that. Or Karma. Whatever, it’s a compelling parable. It’ll be interesting to see whether he has the character to stick it out in Columbia.

By UnderDawg

September 11, 2008 9:02 AM | Link to this

If you’re a coach, South Carolina must be your absolute last stop before retirement, unemployment, or just flat-out starving to death. No, I don’t feel any sympathy for the Ol’ Ball Sack. His years of smart-a$$ comments, running up the score on less talented opponents, and treating his players like crap have finally caught up with him, and payback is a bi**h, isn’t it? It’s now a lovely sight seeing him pace the sidelines like an angry, but toothless tiger…..rubbing his eyes, contorting his face with every rotten play, and wanting to throw the visor, but unable to without first dislodging his headset and throwing it, too. Karma, baby……

By Mark Bradley

September 11, 2008 9:05 AM | Link to this

Yeah, I know he was a bad winner, and I thought it would be highly entertaining to see him lose. But it hasn’t been, at least not to me.

By Reality Time

September 11, 2008 9:08 AM | Link to this

Sympathy for the antichrist! Hever. If there is any justice, he’ll lose his golf game too.

By DAWGS 2004

September 11, 2008 9:15 AM | Link to this

He allows his team to score late in the game on NC-St already being up 27-0 and somebody feels sorry for this guy. Give me a break. I hope UGA stomps him and SC into the ground and I still wouldn’t feel sorry for him!

By Original BullDawg

September 11, 2008 9:18 AM | Link to this

I hope Richt pots his headphones on sideways when thae Dawgs are schooling South Carolina up and down the field(Alas sideways visor). However, i cannot say that I would not want Spurrier as a offensive coordinator.

By Robert

September 11, 2008 9:21 AM | Link to this

I said from the day that he took the job that Spurrier would not be able to win consistently at USC. The state of SC does not have the depth of talent to compete every year in the Eastern Division. Their top 20 recruits are as good as anybody, but they have to split those kids with Clemson and they will lose one or two to UGA or UNC every year. You cannot build a program on 8 or 10 blue chippers a year. That means that they have to go into GA or NC and compete with the in state programs and that is a tough row to hoe. People pointed to his success at Duke as evidence that he could reproduce that at USC. Duke does not play in the Eastern Division of the SEC. If USC was in the ACC they could count on a lot more 9-3 seasons, but in the SEC they will have to be happy with one 9-3 or 8-4 season every four years with the others being 6-6 or 7-5 no matter who their coach is.

By Gary

September 11, 2008 9:24 AM | Link to this

Mark, I’ll forgive you for feeling sorry for the ‘ol Ball Coach if you forgive the rest of us for kicking the Evil Genius while he’s down. AFter all, he’d do the same to us, right?

By PTC DAWG

September 11, 2008 9:27 AM | Link to this

Just have Bill Stanfill sneak up behind him and holler “BOO”. IF you want a good laugh.

Sympathy for SOS? That’s a good one. LMAO…..

By todd

September 11, 2008 9:30 AM | Link to this

Steve Spurrier- Sept. 2007 on beating GA “It’s not like there some highly ranked team, didn’t they loose to Vandy last yr.”

There’s an old saying “what goes around, comes around”

The biggest, baddest Gator of them all, about to go down in Columbia, SC in a big way.

What a joke Gator fan, your boy, flaming in DC, now on his way out in Columbia.

Steve Spurrier hates UGA so much, he took a job at SC thinking he could go 50/50 with Ga and Fl would continue to get us.

What goes around, comes around Evil Genius.

By TheAntiMe

September 11, 2008 9:31 AM | Link to this

Maybe next year Spurrier can go be offensive coordinator at Florida. Can you imagine both Urban Meyer and Steve Spurrier on the same Gator sideline?

I’m not sure if those two swelled heads could fit on the same sideline in Ben Hill Griffith Stadium without some major stadium reconstruction.

By tim Rupert

September 11, 2008 9:45 AM | Link to this

He will pull garcia out of his sleeve. He has probably been planing it for three weeks now. It won’t be enough, they can’t run and they can’t stop the run. Go Dawgs.

By Bob

September 11, 2008 9:46 AM | Link to this

You just know what was going through Spurrier’s head when he took that South Carolina job. Georgia was barely scraping by wins against Holtz. Surely the great Spurrier could turn those near misses into wins. Florida was a perrenial 8 win team and nothing special, but you could still count on them knocking of Georgia. Tennessee wasn’t the Tennessee of the 90’s. Vandy and Kentucky were Vandy and Kentucky. He probably thought this SEC thing would be easy again.

WRONG. I think we’ll learn alot about Spurrier’s character in the next year or two. If he sticks this mess out he will have my respect. If not, he’s exactly the snot nosed spoiled punk that I thought he was. His legacy is on the line. No pressure coach.

By erictin

September 11, 2008 9:50 AM | Link to this

When you feel like feeling sorry for S.S. remember this.If he had the talent to do it,he would beat everyone he plays by fifty and smirk about it.

By ESPN College GameDay

September 11, 2008 10:00 AM | Link to this

Steve Spurrier just called to ask why it is that Georgia coach Mark Richt is receiving so much more attention than he is this year?

Coach Spurrier asked Lee Corso, “How is it that the goody-two shoes Georgia head coach is getting more publicity than I am when the polls clearly show that my team, USC, is currently #1 in the nation?”

Coach had to break it to him that it was the other USC that is actually #1 in the polls.

By Dawgsaregarbage

September 11, 2008 10:00 AM | Link to this

Relax folks, SC beat UGA last year ..this year will make it 2 in a row. Dawgs in the national championship game?? ..what a joke

By Austen

September 11, 2008 10:00 AM | Link to this

SC has dedicated fans and a big stadium, but something just seems to be missing that prevents it from reaching the next level. Spurrier is the kind of coach you’d think would turn the corner there and make them a good top 25 team.

If UGA really takes it to them on Saturday, the SC season may fall apart and be the last for Spurrier. I’d miss a chance to hate Spurrier on the sidelines next year but not as much as I’d love seeing the Dawgs punish his team in a big way. Not that it will happen, but here’s hoping it does. Go Dawgs!

By Sicem

September 11, 2008 10:12 AM | Link to this

To H#ll with Spurrier. My two favorite teams are UGA and whichever team is playing the team that scumbag visor tosser is coaching! I feel a little for the USC players but I hope beotch boy loses every game. I would like to see Richt run up the score on him but I know our coach has too much class for that childish crap. GOOOOO DAWGS SICEM WOOF WOOF WOOF!

By Fat Dawg

September 11, 2008 10:34 AM | Link to this

I went to my first Dawg spanking last weekend and loved it. I would really like to go this weekend but the tickets on Ebay are to high.

There were three great days in my life. The day I married my lovley wife, the day I saw my Dawgs for the first time, the day I taught my daughter to say DAWGS and the day in 1997 when we beat the lowly Gators. Spurrier has allways been overrated in my opinion. Let’s go win a championship! I’m hyped this week to, baby!

By Matt in STL

September 11, 2008 10:36 AM | Link to this

Mark, Ray Goff was an addled foil, but he was our addled foil, so we must come to his defense.

By Gene

September 11, 2008 10:41 AM | Link to this

It is a great irony that Spurrier could have returned to UF and resumed his winning ways. He is a world-class jerk, but I thought his wife was charming. He has to continue coaching to keep his sons employed.

By WP

September 11, 2008 10:48 AM | Link to this

Yeah I do so much feel sorry for this clown I’m throwing him a crying towel I just used in the shower and you know where that has been

By GATOR CHOMP

September 11, 2008 10:50 AM | Link to this

Hey Mutts be careful what you ask for.The Ole Ball Coach is known for putting a whipping on u flead out puppies.Go Gators!!!!

By NW GA Dawg

September 11, 2008 10:51 AM | Link to this

Sympathy for Spurrier? Ha, I wouldn’t pee on him if he was on fire! He enjoyed making fun of Ray Goff all those years and lest we forget, was the one who coined, Ray “Goof.” Well how does it feel now Stevie? Let’s see, how does Coach “Spoofier” feel since you’ve become a mockery of your old image?

I’m glad this is “such a big game” and so important to SC and SOS’ psyche; that’ll make it that much sweeter when the Dawgs spank that fanny. I think the Dawgs name their score.

By Whopper Dawg

September 11, 2008 10:52 AM | Link to this

Interesting comments. If you are a Gamecock fan, you have to be wondering what you have to do to be competitive in the SEC. Two Hall of Fame coaches and neither get it done. Maybe, Skip Holtz?

By missusteve

September 11, 2008 10:59 AM | Link to this

USC-THE GRAVEYARD OF COACHES!!!!!!!!!

By JB

September 11, 2008 11:09 AM | Link to this

I will never forget when they played the game in Athens a few years ago under Coach Goff, He ran the score up on our boys( over 50 points) because he thought it was cute and never been done before. Show the team the film of him Yukking it up and laughing at us on the sideline. Mark Richt WOULD NEVER DO THAT. It’s not RIGHT at that level. Mark will take a knee late Saturday, and NOT throw bombs in the End zone when it’s late.don’t ever feel sorry for this guy. He wouldn’t, and would think less of you if you did.

By nocockatall

September 11, 2008 11:09 AM | Link to this

WHO IS THE NEXT COACH GOING TO BE PATERNO OR BOWDEN?

By bigeasy830

September 11, 2008 11:15 AM | Link to this

Several reasons Spurrier can’t win in the SEC at South Carolina at a high level. 1. SC can’t out recruit UGA, TENN, FLA, LSU, AUB, ALA. They have nice recruiting years but will not consistently out recruit those other programs.

By Mark Bradley

September 11, 2008 11:22 AM | Link to this

I know, I know. I figured it would be funny seeing Spurrier struggle, and to a Georgia fan I’m sure it’s hilarious. But I’m not a fan. I’m just some guy who writes for the newspaper.

By Meatcleaver

September 11, 2008 11:23 AM | Link to this

Hang half-a-hundred on ‘em Dawgs!

By ga_tech_92

September 11, 2008 11:23 AM | Link to this

Lowclass Bulldog writes: Spurrier get what he deserves for spending most of the xx’s kicking our butts and being a continual jerk about it!

Sounds exactly how UGA is to GT, except that GT isn’t even in the same universe of a team. Learn for that…grow some class as you beat up on smaller schools. You expected a school the same size as you to win with class…try practicing what you preach.

By goober

September 11, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this

This week against the LameCocks, Knowshown “Motion” Moreno will go UNDER a SC defender by buzzing out a trench in the ground at full speed. Highlights to follow on ESPN and YouTube. He will then be called the Tasmanian Devil.

By 1eyedJack

September 11, 2008 11:28 AM | Link to this

I hope we make him cry.

By SneakyDawg

September 11, 2008 11:33 AM | Link to this

I hope he keeps coaching a long time and becomes a punchline. He’s all for being “straight up”, so let’s see if he is man enough to stay in the game and flounder around. I bet not. He’ll leave, go back to Florida to live and hang out where he can get his ego stroked about what used to be.I still wish Ray Goff would ‘ve whipped his mealy-mouthed a#$ at Sanford Stadium, right on the fifty. What’s ironic is the evil genius can’t coach up a quarterback anymore, which is not a shock since nobody with sense would want to play for him.

By Montgomery Barker

September 11, 2008 11:35 AM | Link to this

I once actually thought Spurrier was the best coach in college football. But since he left all that talent in the state of Florida, he is just another average coach. DAWGS 41 GAMECOCKS 6

By 2xvandygrad

September 11, 2008 11:40 AM | Link to this

In some cases these comments are a little more thoughtful than the usual drivel posted by individuals with persistent eighth grade emotions. SS never apologizes for winning big and never makes excuses for loosing big. Hatred by the opposition validates his success. Genuine sympathy is something of which he wants no part.

By IMADAWG

September 11, 2008 11:45 AM | Link to this

YA’LL JUST REMEMBER WHAT WAS SAID WHEN HE TOOK THE SOUTH CAROLINA JOB (THINK CORSO SAID IT) “YOU CAN’T WIN THE KENTUCKY DERBY RIDING ON A JACKASS!!!”

By sadderbudweiser

September 11, 2008 11:54 AM | Link to this

I am with you JB. I was there when visor boy thought it would be cute to score 50 in Sanford just because it had not been done before. If you want sympathy, you can find it in the dictionary listed between sh—, and syphillis.

By uga_b

September 11, 2008 11:57 AM | Link to this

You can’t spell Steve Spurrier without “retire”.

His record is about the same as Goff’s, whom he used to mock, in the same timeframe. Goff had a better handle on Vandy though.

I agree with Mark, I am sorry for Spurrier, he deserves to have someone go for a TD with the 1st string to try and clear 50 points.

By OCDawg

September 11, 2008 12:09 PM | Link to this

Sorry, Mark… poor, poor, pitiful Stevie won’t get a drop of sympathy from this die-hard dawg! In the event of a win this weekend, I would love to be there to stomp on that visor after it’s thrown to the ground.

Spurrier is a sorry excuse for a positive motivator. I’ve never had respect for the way he will throw his players under the bus in front of the media. The coach’s role is to take the responsibility for poor play (in front of the media) and then go back to the kids on the team and work with the weaknesses that he saw on the field in practice. But for Spurrier, these kids are his sacrificial lambs, and he makes no bones about it.

By TheAntiMe

September 11, 2008 12:19 PM | Link to this

Thanks for the column, Mark. The thought of watching Steve Spurrier making those funny faces and generally squirming around like the worm that he is makes for a nice read while I am currently breaking in my new Georgia Bulldogs beer mug.

Beer does seem to taste better in my new Bulldog mug, which, by the way, I have christened “MUGA I”.

By Tossed Visor

September 11, 2008 12:31 PM | Link to this

Mark, there is no greater sight in college football, none, than Spurrier ripping off that visor, whatever color, and throwing hard enough to dent the field.

By Honest Lee

September 11, 2008 12:31 PM | Link to this

This GT alum sez: Moreno is awesome and Stafford is improving. No way USC beats UGA this year.

By Tossed Visor

September 11, 2008 12:32 PM | Link to this

Mark, there is no greater sight in college football, none, than Spurrier ripping off that visor, whatever color, and throwing hard enough to dent the field.

By JG

September 11, 2008 12:40 PM | Link to this

Mr. Bradley,

Are you interviewing to become Sports Editor of The State in Columbia? Nice article above to get some comments.. If Richt can do it, he should hang 50 on the ol’ ball coach Saturday.. And I will not feel a bit sorry for the poor winner and loser..

By Elvis

September 11, 2008 12:45 PM | Link to this

By 59bulldawg

September 11, 2008 12:45 PM | Link to this

Sympathy? You’ve got to be kidding me? I have no sympathy for Spurrier. He’s the kind of coach you want to crush, embarrass, totally dominate, humilate, make look foolish, etc. He’s the kind of coach on whom no quarter should be given, the kind where another 7 looks good even if you’re leading 80-0, the kind you want to keep the starters in the whole game just to rub it in even if your team’s far ahead. To me it’s not a Carolina thing. I love Carolina, even have an advanced degree from there, but I bleed red and black. No for me it’s personal. He’s not a genius … he just had great athletes at Florida … and when he got bored there he mistakenly thought he was ready for the NFL and was a joke in Washington. No he’s not a genius … he’s more like an evil pompous idiot. What strength the Gamecocks have this season is found more in their defense than their offense. Do I respect them as a team? Of course! Could this be a traditional GA/Carolina game … i.e. a civil war? Most Definitely! But I’ll never have sympathy for Spurrier and can only hope we can lay 50 on him too. Go Dawgs! GATA!

By Spurrier is a Richard

September 11, 2008 12:54 PM | Link to this

Kick him, split on him, score, score, score, and laugh while you’re doing it. Payback is hell!

By nick

September 11, 2008 1:00 PM | Link to this

Funny, how some people tried to hide their face sometime.

The ol’ ball coach isn’t talking much smacks these day. I guess he knows that his team is about to get their butts kick by the Dawgs and he doesn’t have any excuse.

I hope we put up 60 points on his backyard and that will teach him a lesson not to bark too loud when his team got VERY LUCKY last year to escape with the “W”.

Go Dawgs!! Bite them where it hurts.

By GATOR CHOMP

September 11, 2008 1:02 PM | Link to this

South Carolina 17 Georgia 3 “Book It” Elvis stop dreaming u idiot. The Mighty Gators are going 2 murder the puppies this time.I hope u got cable in that double wide out there in your Athens Trailer Park.See u lozers in Jacksonville.And by the way Superman is back in the building. Gators or Die!!!

By 81Dog

September 11, 2008 1:04 PM | Link to this

Mark, you may not have intended this, but I suspect if old rabbit ears Spurrier reads your column, he’ll be extremely ticked off. It would be less insulting to him if you mocked his struggles, rather than expressed sympathy for him, I suspect.

From Ruler Of the SEC to Tragic Also-Ran; it must be a humbling experience for a guy who dishes it out so much better than he takes it. If schadenfreude is wrong when it comes to the Head Ball Coach, UGA fans dont want to be right.

By Regan

September 11, 2008 1:18 PM | Link to this

Darth Visor is no Mark Richt you are correct. Spurrier would have to be a bench body like CMR. He would have to give back his Heisman Trophy and the Heisman trophy’s his players won. Evil Steve would have to give back the National Championships too. Damn not being Mark RICHT is hard!

By GamecokkErt

September 11, 2008 1:19 PM | Link to this

All this hatred, smack-talk and downright disrespect just proves one thing:

Your fanbase is scared, just like your coaches.

Excuse me if I assume that Coach Richt (who I truly respect) knows more about his progam than you peons do. Coach Richt has stated multiple times that this is the game he fears most this year, and for good reason.

We took away your chance at a National Title last year, so you guys are right to be angry.

We’ve held Stafford to ZERO touchdowns and grabbed five INT’s off him in two years. We held you to ZERO touchdowns last year in YOUR HOUSE. Say what you want about Spurrier and the Gamecocks, but in your heart of hearts, you know you’re scared of the Gamecocks… and so do we! When you come down to the Brice this saturday, you’re going to find a team that isn’t going to just roll over and give the game to you. You’re going to find a big, fast and agressive D that has the potential to slow down even Moreno and will again limit Stafford’s effectiveness.

This game is going to be a lot closer than all you cousin-loving Dawgs fans think it will be. I’m not guranteeing a SC victory, but it won’t be the blowout all you armchair QB’s think it will be.

16-12 suckas. Remember it.

GO GAMECOCKS!!!

By Mark Bradley

September 11, 2008 1:25 PM | Link to this

81 Dawg: I was over in Columbia the week before the Georgia game last year, and I broke the news to the EG that he was still the most hated opponent by Georgia fans, according to an AJC.com poll.

He actually smiled and said, “Nice to know they remember me.”

You’re absolutely right. He’d rather be hated than pitied.

By pro style

September 11, 2008 1:26 PM | Link to this

It may really get ugly with Mckinnley not playing this week.

By ColaDawg

September 11, 2008 1:30 PM | Link to this

I’d sooner feel sorry for Osama bin Laden!

By Halberstram

September 11, 2008 1:42 PM | Link to this

I think it’s been great seeing him humiliated up in Columbia. The guy was the biggest jerk to so many schools. It’s fitting payback and karma to see him struggle so much. He’s tarnishing his legacy as we speak.

When he accepted the Redskins he said the perfect quote (apologies if it’s already been posted) “There aren’t any Vanderbilt’s in the NFL.” Now he’s lost to them twice in a row.

Click-clack Stevie!

By office space

September 11, 2008 2:00 PM | Link to this

Sympathy is something held out at the ‘end’ of a game not before it’s played and you’ve kicked some a*. I have sympathy for Spurrier for the Dawgs ruining his Heisman Trophy season at quarterback with the Gators, in a sick and twisted way.But I do appreciate him voluteering himself to be put to the stake by taking on the responsibility of the Cocks after the beatings we Dawgs took while he was at Fla..In the end it’ll be a wash for Dawg fans and we’ll all dole out the sympathy in bucketloads. As far as this week-end the sympathy for Spurrier will probably begin around 7pm Saturday.

By mike

September 11, 2008 2:01 PM | Link to this

I think it is halarious!!!! This is from the “coach” that once said it was no big deal to beat UGA- after all, Vandy did. Hahahahahahahaha…it has finally come home to him! I can only pray that we lay 53 on him this week….not 52- 53!!!!

By Pitbull

September 11, 2008 2:38 PM | Link to this

The best part of a Steve Spurrier football game is the moment when the other team clinches the game for a win with some time left.

SS gets this look on his face like he knows he has just been screwed. It is priceless.

I could never feel sorry for him as a coach. I feel sorry for him as a person.

By Brizdawg

September 11, 2008 2:46 PM | Link to this

Mark, you wrote a similar article last year about how we should believe Spurrier when he says his team sucks. You were wrong then, and you still are. It’s clear that the reason USC lost to Vandy is that they were looking past the Commodores for the big showdown with their most hated rival - UGA. Mark my words: the Gamecocks are going to bring it Saturday. The only question is, will the Bulldogs walk on the field assuming they will win the game just by showing up, or will they come to put the smack down on the team that they had no excuse to lose to last year that cost them their shot at the national title. I sincerely hope the latter.

By dawgcrzy

September 11, 2008 2:53 PM | Link to this

If Spurrier knocked on my door and said he was starving to death I would give him a 5# bag of salt and tell him he could thirst to death too!

By 87Dawg

September 11, 2008 3:03 PM | Link to this

Spurrier will get sympathy from me if it involves personal loss, injury, or illness. I’ll never have any pity for him when it comes to football. He’s run up scores on too many teams and verbally trashed too many programs to elicit any form of good will simply because his team is struggling.

By dobearsbare

September 11, 2008 3:06 PM | Link to this

Feel sorry for Spurrier? Maybe for you, Mark, as an objective bystander, that’s OK, but I can’t get out of my head the night in Athens when he ran up the score.

Maybe Ray Goff was a bumpkin and deserved the needling Spurrier sent his way. But calling a pass play when you’re up 45-17 just so you can say your team was the first opponent to score 50 at Sanford… well, he deserves every negative thing that happens to him in Columbia. If Richt has a chance to hang 50 on USC, he won’t.

By DawgBite

September 11, 2008 3:07 PM | Link to this

I’m all for sympathy. Let’s give his team a good old-fashioned sympathetic arse whipping!

By Brian

September 11, 2008 3:12 PM | Link to this

I seem to remember him beating Georgia last year. No symphathy here.

By chazz

September 11, 2008 3:18 PM | Link to this

sympathy for the devil? It is a great tune, but every time I start to kind of like Spurrier he opens his mouth. He takes a jab at UGA (and Vandy vicariously)for losing to Vandy, and then he loses to Vandy twice. It is all Kharma.

By Mark Bradley

September 11, 2008 3:24 PM | Link to this

I was just noticing the headline — Sympathy for the Evil Genius — and I thought, “You know, he no longer seems so evil, and he doesn’t really seem like a genius, either.”

By Sandlapperdawg

September 11, 2008 3:37 PM | Link to this

Gawrsh. What if the Gamecocks do win after all?

By marcopolo

September 11, 2008 3:39 PM | Link to this

We put half a hundred on them He perfected the art of being a butthead and is the greatest a***** of all time Go Cocks!

By AltamahaDawg

September 11, 2008 3:39 PM | Link to this

I think that it did NOT turn out to be near as fun as Dawgs fans would have thought to see Spurrier down, is just his last little way of getting at us.

By DawgDayz

September 11, 2008 3:40 PM | Link to this

GamecokkErt, please let the crack pipe cool off for a while. You need to throttle back a bit on those rocks as your mama hasn’t been paid yet by Waffle House for her overtime hours to support your habit. Your comments are laughable; it must be blissful to live in such a delusional world. You’ll need more crack this Saturday as UGA takes the yard hens behind the wood shed for a severe beat-down. You might think about cutting grass there in your trailer park, washing cars or picking up cans so you will have enough crack & PBR for the game.

By Mark Bradley

September 11, 2008 3:41 PM | Link to this

They won’t.

As for last year’s article about Spurrier saying his team wasn’t that good … well, it wasn’t. It beat Georgia, but it also finished 6-6.

By 87Dawg

September 11, 2008 3:42 PM | Link to this

I’ll agree with you on the genius part, Mark, but he spews venom with every word when it comes to UGA. Sorry, but I don’t buy that “no longer seems evil” line.

By NikkiFree

September 11, 2008 3:43 PM | Link to this

Darth Visor and company are going down. UGA usually has problems with USC’s defense. I still think UGA wins by at least 20 points.

By ES

September 11, 2008 3:48 PM | Link to this

SOS said the truth when he said ,there was only a couple of teams to worry about when he was winning all those SEC championships,unlike now.What nobody talks about,is he only won one SEC in his last 5 years at FL(he beat a very weak Auburn team to do that).The fact is he came along at the right time and his top competition was Gene Stallings and Phillip Fulmer in which he flat out coached the majority of the time.He would pack 8 and 9 men in the box and pumpkin head would run right into it for no gain ,with great QB’s and wide receivers that would go on to the NFL.Stallings was no different!I remember them having a less than TD lead the whole second half and on 3rd and 5 and 3rd and 8 run into Fl’s 8 man front and punt it.The SEC championship game I’m talking about SOS did’nt have a first down the whole second half until last posession run a couple of trick plays got a TD and won another SEC.Last thing said during that same time he had a very bad record against Bobby Bowden,that’s because Bobby wasn’t stupid enough to just run into there 8 men fronts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Matter of fact the Evil Genius never in 11 years beat Bobby at his house!

By country boy

September 11, 2008 3:51 PM | Link to this

I am NOT a Tennessee fan but the single lowest comment I ever heard from Spurrier was when someone asked him a question about Peyton Manning the Vol QB. Gator coach Spurrier said that Manning better get use the spending his New Years Day at the OUTBACK Bowl - incinuating the Gators would easily beat Manning and the Vols every time they played. I asked myself .. what kind of National championship, Heisman tropy winning 50 year old man critisizes an 19 yr. old young player. Total lack of class by Steve Superior.

By Jack Mehoff

September 11, 2008 3:56 PM | Link to this

NEWS FLASH!!!

Apparently there was some sort of brawl on the So Car, campus this morning involving 6-8 football players. It’s all over their message boards.

By Jack Mehoff

September 11, 2008 3:56 PM | Link to this

NEWS FLASH!!!

Apparently there was some sort of brawl on the So Car. campus this morning involving 6-8 football players. It’s all over their message boards.

By raymond

September 11, 2008 4:00 PM | Link to this

I hope the Dawgs beat the ** out of S.C. but don’t under estimate Spurrier, they don’t call him the “Evil Guiness” for nothing.

By Robert B

September 11, 2008 4:21 PM | Link to this

I think I hear the Rolling Stones warming up…”Sympathy for the Devil” is a better title. He is certainly no genius.

By wmd

September 11, 2008 4:32 PM | Link to this

SYMPATHY!!!!!! NEVER!!!!!! I don’t think his way works anymore. Kids don’t respond well to his BS like they used to.

By Dr. Morpheus

September 11, 2008 5:33 PM | Link to this

Like all UGA fans, I hated Spurrier when he was kicked our butts regularly but I had to grudgingly respect his unprecedented success against us. The other thing I secretly liked about him was that he had a lot of fun and, despite being an intense competitor, he seemed to understand that football is still just a game. I could imagine enjoying having him coach a team I was following. The opposite of his attitude would be Nick Saban who believes that winning football games is more important than taking out Bin Laden. (When Saban left LSU, I thought they should consider hiring Spurrier. Of course, Les Miles is the other SEC coach (beside CMR) who operates at the highest level of winning with honor, so they did just fine.) But, at South Carolina, Spurrier has proven to be mortal, just another colorful coach who gives us a good game every year. I love for UGA to beat him (as we will do handily on Saturday) but it’s not the thrill I get from taking out Fulmer, Meyers, or Saban, all of which I also expect us to do as the season unfolds. The ones I’m concerned about are Arizona State and LSU on the road. If we win one of those two, we’ll finish in great shape.

By This Gets Old

September 11, 2008 6:14 PM | Link to this

BigEasy830 had a post that was very well thought out. Yeah, having to adjust to beating the Gators really did strengthen the SEC.

And for UGA fans the guy beat us last year and that was one of the strongest UGA teams in years. The reason that sucks is even if we beat him this year it still isn’t giving us what we really want - a chance to go back and beat him when he coached the Gators.

By dawgsarejokes

September 11, 2008 6:38 PM | Link to this

From what I read here it sounds as if Georgia fans just may have a little concern floating around inside their heads.

By secondguesser

September 11, 2008 6:39 PM | Link to this

WOW! Such disrespect for a man that has owned your azzes! You should be cowering in a corner shaking like a nervuos chihuahua needin crack! After all, wasn’t he one that gave yall one of the 2 losses last year that kept yall out of the N.C. game? Actually, I think most people outside the leghumper nation feel sorry for the poodles for having to face this guy. I mean DAYUUM, Michael Vick got seven freakin years for less abuse to mutts than this guy’s been serving you poodle fans for several years now. You folks best show sme respect for the Evil genius. UGAly should win this week, but just think, yall would have been playin for it all if it hadn’t been for him last year.

“One of our coaches said that nobody had ever scored 50 on georgia between the hedges……I gess they won’t be saying that anymore.”

By secondguesser

September 11, 2008 6:40 PM | Link to this

WOW! Such disrespect for a man that has owned your azzes! You should be cowering in a corner shaking like a nervuos chihuahua needin crack! After all, wasn’t he one that gave yall one of the 2 losses last year that kept yall out of the N.C. game? Actually, I think most people outside the leghumper nation feel sorry for the poodles for having to face this guy. I mean DAYUUM, Michael Vick got seven freakin years for less abuse to mutts than this guy’s been serving you poodle fans for several years now. You folks best show sme respect for the Evil genius. UGAly should win this week, but just think, yall would have been playin for it all if it hadn’t been for him last year.

“One of our coaches said that nobody had ever scored 50 on georgia between the hedges……I guess they won’t be saying that anymore.”

By WOW

September 11, 2008 7:03 PM | Link to this

Wow is right secondguesser. As in wow, another stupid Tech fan masquerading as another teams fan since they can’t beat us.

Go back to the Tech blog and cry some more about 790 hiring Pollack you loser.

By wmd

September 11, 2008 7:18 PM | Link to this

Sympathy???? Maybe for the kids who decided to go play for that SOB. Used to love to watch his offenses when he was at Florida. Good Defenses have caught up to the fun’n’gun, spread, and such.

I’ll take what UGA and USC are selling ALL DAY over WVA and FL. We play exciting and strategic football, run the clock and keep the other offense off the field. It’s the way it supposed to be.

By shane #1

September 11, 2008 7:23 PM | Link to this

The OBC is on His way out and You shouldn’t kick a man when he is down. Nah! Kick away! Actually there are some things I like about the man, He did drag the SEC kicking and screaming out of the three yds and a cloud of dust dark ages. I love the way He punches holes in the stuffed shirts that make up the top brass in the NCAA, and the BCS. Voting for Duke in the preseason pole shows the folly of VOTING for a champion.Saban and Meyer run up scores and act like jerks too, but They aren’t any fun. The Evil Richt is fun, dancing on the sidelines, the famous celebration, blackouts, and I am sure the Gators had a lot of fun with SOS, though it wasn’t much fun for Us Dawg fans! Remember Spurrier’s “Jabba the Hutt” coment about Fulmer? The visor throwing, the cussin’ out QBs on the sidelines, the pouting after a bad play. I love when Spurrier trys to throw the visor and it gets tangled up in His headphones. DAMN, I think I will miss Him.

By Gak

September 11, 2008 7:55 PM | Link to this

To heck with sympathy; It’ll be nice just to come away with a win of any kind, though a one point win with the final horn sounding as the Dawgs kick a field goal would be the most rewarding. If you defeat a Spurrier team by 50 points, he really doesn’t feel to badly about himself and his coaching because it will be evident that his team never had a chance and therefore his superior coaching never entered the picture. However, if you just barely squeak by his team because they are in fact competitive, that seems to bother him because he realizes that, indeed, superior coaching by the other team is a far greater possibility and a likely reality. That does bother the ole ball coach.

By Zeb

September 11, 2008 8:28 PM | Link to this

Guys, don’t get excited about the little scuffle the SC players got into. It was basically nothing and no charges were filed…………so I’m thinking no suspensions……….and they weren’t starters anyway. If you have to get excited about suspensions for this game, then you’re fan scared. I personally respect SC and their defense and want to come out and smash somebody in the f’ng mouth. I think that’s what will happen. Our team is hungry………..they remember last year………..they have national aspirations on the mind. What in the F’ck more motivation do you need? Relax bulldawg nation…..we’ve got this one.

By heeldawg

September 11, 2008 8:45 PM | Link to this

Hey, Raymond, I don’t think they call Spurrier the “Evil Guinness.” That would be a beer.

Gamecock Henry, you’re delusional, as usual. It’ll be nice to shut you up for at least a year come Saturday.

Gator Chomp, you’re an idiot, as always. I have never seen anyone write anything with such an absolute disdain for the English language. I heard Florida was a good school. You clearly didn’t go there. And if you did, the U of F’s academic reputation just took a serious blow.

And Mark, you’re right—for a sportswriter, Spurrier isn’t as much fun now. He was like a WWF wrestler back in the ‘90’s, bigger than life and full of bombast. He could say crazy things because he could back it up (it ain’t braggin’ then, you know…). But now he’s in Columbia. His ego finally got the best of him. He took a job at USC-East, a football backwater that has chewed up the careers of many a good coach (and outright killed one of them), thinking that his sheer genius could transform a sow’s ear into a silk purse.

It ain’t gonna happen. Ever.

Spurrier will never win big again, there or anywhere. His bag of tricks has gone stale. He scares no one—least of all Mark Richt, who is as quietly confident as Spurrier was brash and obnoxious. He’s done, a has-been, a throwback to a less-competitive SEC that doesn’t exist anymore. There are too many competitive teams and good coaches in the conference now, and they don’t have the recruiting impediment of being the second-best football school in the talent-challenged state of South Carolina.

Spurrier didn’t do his homework with this one.

He signed on to attempt an impossible task, tempted by the prospect of an Augusta National membership. But—irony of ironies!—Hootie Ingram, the USC-E grad and Augusta National director, stepped down from his position. And who took his place?

Billy Payne, a former U.Ga. player under Vince Dooley, who would rather grant Osama bin Laden an Augusta National membership than SOS.

Feel sorry for Spurrier?

He could have been a legend at UF, could have stayed in his beloved Gainesville until he died. His house would have been a shrine. Pilgrims would have walked barefoot to his door seeking his blessing.

But his pride got the best of him. Twice. And his hubris is his Achilles’ heel.

He’ll leave South Carolina soon, seeing the handwriting on the wall and not wanting his SEC win percentage to fall further than it has already fallen.

He is, ironically enough, not a team player. It’s all about Steve-O. Always has been. His father must have beaten him unmercifully as a child.

And to those who mourn his imminent passing, remember that the SOS we all knew and hated is long dead. What stalks the sidelines in Columbia is just his animated corpse. And it’s beginning to stink.

Good riddance, whenever it happens. I just hope he throws his visor a few more times before he goes.

By John McCarthy

September 11, 2008 8:50 PM | Link to this

Feel sorry for Spurrier???? Isn’t he the same guy who brought the gators into Sanford stadium,and upon finding out that no opposing team had ever scored fifty points against Georgia, proceeded to call a trick play with a couple of minutes left, so he could do just that? Not in this lifetime, or the next will he EVER warrant sympathy from this dog fan. Thank you Billy Payne for keeping him out of Augusta National. I wonder if the “ole ball coach”, ever thinks about that.

By robodawg

September 11, 2008 9:01 PM | Link to this

Maybe we should ask SS’s wife what she thought about Ray G.. She said he was pretty good.

By Dr. Morpheus

September 11, 2008 9:22 PM | Link to this

Spurrier’s glory days are long gone. Like all UGA fans, I hated Spurrier when he was kicked our butts regularly but I had to grudgingly respect his unprecedented success against us. The other thing I secretly liked about him was that he had a lot of fun and, despite being an intense competitor, he seemed to understand that football is still just a game. I could imagine enjoying having him coach a team I was following. The opposite of his attitude would be Nick Saban who believes that winning football games is more important than taking out Bin Laden. Saban never appears to be experiencing any pleasure whatsoever (When Saban left LSU, I thought they should consider hiring Spurrier. Of course, Les Miles is the other SEC coach (beside CMR) who operates at the highest level of winning with honor, so they did just fine.) But, at South Carolina, Spurrier has proven to be a mere mortal, just another colorful coach who gives us a good game every year. I love for UGA to beat him (as we will do handily on Saturday) but it’s not the thrill I get from taking out Fulmer, Meyers, or Saban, all of which I also expect us to do as the season unfolds. The ones I’m concerned about are Arizona State and LSU on the road. LSU fans are without doubt the most fanatical in the country. They don’t care whether we take out Bin Laden or not as long as the Tigers don’t lose any games. See y’all in Baton Rouge.

By Mike T.

September 11, 2008 9:57 PM | Link to this

I don’t think any UGA fan over the age of 25 has any thing close to sympathy for Spurrier.Most of us remember when he ran a reverse inside Georgia’s twenty yard line with less than three minutes left in the game just to break 50 points inside Sanford Stadium.This happened back in the mid 90’s when the schools went to home and home while the Gator Bowl was being renovated.Georgia needs to be cautious Saturday because he has something up his sleeve.He knows another loss in the conference will put USC in a deep hole, probably out of the SEC east race.Spurrier has been unusally quite this week,not making cocky remarks or handing the media bunch of lame lefthanded compliments.The defense needs to be heads up for their offense pulling some off the wall crap. Hey this guy would rather beat us than eat,breathe or have sex.

By ............................................BuLLdawg

September 11, 2008 10:34 PM | Link to this

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The Brawl today was all about the fact that South Carolina Gamecocks’ football players were specifically identified to be in fact members of The Reds gang.

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By saywhat

September 11, 2008 11:26 PM | Link to this

Spurrier is more of a man’s man than anybody from UGA or for UGA will EVER be. Just because GA allows players to play that will never graduate - plus players that would still be pickin cotton if they weren’t good at running a freakin football; why I bet more than 90% of UGA players couldn’t get into their local community college, much less UGA, if they weren’t on THE TEAM. They are just modern day slaves - being used by Mast Richt and the redneck fans that are UGA fans.

By GATOR CHOMP

September 11, 2008 11:41 PM | Link to this

My boyfriend Timmy says, he’s scared of red and black, and he wants you Georgia fans to stop calling him TEABAG. I have to massage his hinny ever since your football team kept hitting him. So stay away from my boyfriend, I have to go put on my nighty and stockings for Timmy now, so leave us alone GAYTORS OR DIE!

By bobbydawg

September 11, 2008 11:41 PM | Link to this

I hate him. He must go to another conference. Damn ….he has always had our number. I respect his ability. Damn …he should go. Not much talent this year, but never count him out.

By Potato Dawg

September 12, 2008 1:26 AM | Link to this

The football world has passed old Steve by. His ego chose usc, because Florida had bad feelings when he left for Washington. Finally he is reaping what he has sown. Columbia is where College coaches go to end their careers. Bye Steve

By heeldawg

September 12, 2008 5:16 AM | Link to this

Saywhat, you racist SOB, get your facts straight. Georgia under Richt has the highest football graduation rate in the SEC. And that’s only going to get better, as he has been able to get more and more selective with recruits due to the magnitude of his success and his position as the head coach of the best football program in a recruiting-rich state. Georgia refuses to admit non-qualifiers, although a lot of SEC schools do. Folks with checkered pasts, like Michael Grant (now at Arkansas) are routinely denied admission only to go other places with low standards. Richt has let players like David Jacobs (who had a stroke) continue their education on scholarship so that they could obtain a college degree despite the fact that they would never play another down of football again. He teaches his players the value of community service by taking them on mission trips to Central America and to work for Habitat for Humanity. It’s Spurrier who takes chances with players. Stephen Garcia, who will play this weekend because Steve-O is desperate, has had two alcohol-related incidents AS A FRESHMAN, including one in which he vandalized a professor’s car while drunk. His “punishment” included being suspended from football practice—a suspension that was magically lifted right before summer camp started, so that he was in essence not punished at all. The list of thugs who have avoided any sort of meaningful discipline at all under Spurrier is astonishing (over 50 player arrests in four years which were just glossed over). The most recent dining hall fracas is just another example—Spurrier says he needs “more facts,” but dismisses the entire incident as being “just some guys getting into a fight.” Of course. Mark my words, there will be no real discipline there no matter what the facts are. Spurrier doesn’t care about anything but winning. He has no interest in developing young mens’ character. He would sell his soul to beat Georgia this weekend because he defines his worth as an individual by the performance of his football team. Everything he does is ego-driven.

Spurrier, a man? Please, he’s more reptile than man. If you want to look at an example of how a coach ought to treat his players, look no further than Athens, Georgia. There’s your man’s man, Mark Richt. You can spew out all of the racist falsehoods you want, but the facts refute your contentions tenfold.

Not only is Mark Richt more man than Spurrier, he’s more man than you.

By LifelongDawg

September 12, 2008 5:39 AM | Link to this

Thanks, heeldawg, for your defense of CMR. Anyone who pays attention to college football knows the man is above reproach. The SC fans have been trotting this racist line out for the last couple of days now and I don’t know where it came from, but it’s an obvious concerted effort to smear Richt. This is a new low for any UGA haters. I expect this from UF fans, but not fans of SC. I guess the OBC brought more than X’s and O’s to Columbia. Really sad…

By wompuscat

September 12, 2008 6:13 AM | Link to this

All Spurrier cares about these days is his next tee time. Yes, he likes to win at football but at his age he’s probably more concerned with beating his golfing buddies at the Wednesday dogfight.

By wmd

September 12, 2008 10:10 AM | Link to this

Saywhat, I predict a severe beating in your new future. Let us know how that goes.

I’ve heard the KKK is still around but wasn’t convinced they could stop cookin METH long enough to gain internet access or knew how to turn on a computer. Shows what I know.

CRANKHEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By Douglas jones

September 12, 2008 11:34 AM | Link to this

* SPURRIER… WHAT A C**.*

By Douglas jones

September 12, 2008 11:37 AM | Link to this

* SPURRIER… WHAT A C***

By Douglas jones

September 12, 2008 11:38 AM | Link to this

* SPURRIER… lOVES THE COCKS*

By psycock

September 12, 2008 11:40 AM | Link to this

Boy, you Dawgs have short memories! Does 16 - 12 ring a bell? Remember when you had lost 5 straight games to SEC East teams at one point last year? Remember when Vandy fumbled on, what, your 8 yardline last year or they would have beaten you again too? I guess confidence is a powerful thing. I dont blame you, as yall are good. You want revenge from last years loss to us, I know. You will likely get it, and it could be ugly. Ill look forward to the Gators getting revenge on you later this year, after your “classy” coach pulled one of the most classless stunts I have ever seen in college football. Even Spurrier would have never stooped that low. Richt and Tommy Bowden have a lot in common - they want to be perceived as holier than thou, but they will do anything they think will help them win. At least Spurrier is not a hypocrite.

By chuck

September 12, 2008 2:21 PM | Link to this

Mark,

Seems to me that the bulldogs were within a Vandy fumble from losing two years in a row to Vandy themselves. Bobby Johnson has done a great job at Vandy under dificult circumstances. The Dawgs were overrated last year and they are again this year, even if they beat a SC team that has no where near the talent of UGAY. Keep drinking the Kool Aid Mark and Dawg fans and I can’t wait until you play an above average team.

By Spike

September 12, 2008 2:52 PM | Link to this

Once that jerk is either runoff or quits, who are the Cocks going to get next in a place where Granny Holtz and SOS could not get it done? How humiliating for SOS to get run off from USC! The arrogant jack a* deserves it.

By Nautidawg

September 12, 2008 3:13 PM | Link to this

UPChuck, if you only had an idea of how it’s grrrreat to be a Georgia Bulldawg!!!!!!!! you would know how bitter you sound. By the way, that would only be last year and we won it which is all that matters. Woof, woof…….. LOL

By Ken strickland

September 12, 2008 3:41 PM | Link to this

Mark,why dont you leave instead of Barnhart?

By FLA DAWG

September 12, 2008 5:09 PM | Link to this

Spurrier has intentionally run up scores every chance he’s had - especially against UGA and then figuratively spit in our face after he wins.

You can have sympathy for him (I hope you’re kidding) - not me brother. I hope Richt piles up the points on this guy as a farewell. He will be out of a job by the end of this season. But knowing Richt, he’ll be a gentleman and avoid a 60 point win margin.

By P-man

September 12, 2008 5:35 PM | Link to this

Me, I have no sympathy for Spurrier. While I do not wish him ill, neither will I pull for him.

By B. N.

September 12, 2008 5:55 PM | Link to this

I remember NOT SO LONG AGO when GEORGIA was not winning!!!! Give all of the poor coaches a break. They provide all of us with great entertainmnet.

By Hugh Gaddy

September 13, 2008 10:09 PM | Link to this

I can’t believe no one brought up why Spurrier or any other coach will not win at USC…..Has anyone ever heard of the chicken curse? My old neighbor (a clemson grad) told me about it and thought we was making it up, but now….I think I am a believer. GO DAWGS!

By Ed

September 14, 2008 11:45 AM | Link to this

Spurrier is a bad loser, too. He shook Richt’s hand with barely a split second of eye contact. No “good game”, not a single word.

He’s finally getting his comeuppance, and it will taint his legacy forever.

By Ed

September 14, 2008 11:47 AM | Link to this

Spurrier is a bad loser, too. He shook Richt’s hand with barely a split second of eye contact. No “good game”, not a single word.

He’s finally getting his comeuppance, and it will taint his legacy forever.

By 81Dog

September 14, 2008 2:38 PM | Link to this

It’s funny. Most of the experts touted this game all week as a “trap game” for UGA. So, UGA escapes the trap with a win, and now it’s a “disappointing showing.”

I wonder who South Carolina will hire when the Head Ball Coach gives up and goes golfing? Barry Switzer? Don Shula? Gerry Faust? Howard Schellenberger

Is there a coach in America who’s won a championship at any level of football who could win an SEC East title, much less an SEC championship, MUCH less a national championship, at South Carolina, the Bermuda Triangle of football?

By Spurrier Rocks

September 15, 2008 6:31 AM | Link to this

Don’t feel sorry for Spurrier - he rocks. SC should have won 21-14. Give him about a year and he will be beating UGA year after year like he did when he was at UF.

By Ed

September 16, 2008 3:48 PM | Link to this

I kind of wonder if Spurrier isn’t just a real good coach who was “great” only when he had superior talent. I think his offense caught SEC defenses by surprise during the 90s. They were still geared up to stop run-first, I-formation offenses, and had no answer to Spurrier’s spread the field and throw system.

But during that same time period, Florida was often only the third best team in their own state behind FSU and Miami.

We heard for years that Spurrier’s success was all about his “system,” but that same system has averaged 10 points a game against Georgia since Spurrier’s arrival at SC. SC has its issues, but it’s not like they are talentless or hampered by academic restrictions like Vandy (who Spurrier can’t beat anymore). If he didn’t have great defenses during that stretch (an area he doesn’t coach), he’d be in big trouble.

True greatness was found in someone like Bear Bryant. He took over sorry programs at Texas A&M and Kentucky and kicked rear end. When he took over a talented, tradition rich Alabama program, he made it the best college program in the country for decades. Bobby Bowden took over a sorry program and won 10 or more games and finished in the Top 5 for something like 13 years straight years. That’s true greatness.

Now that we’ve seen Spurrier post-Florida, I don’t think he quite fits the bill.

By Jim

September 17, 2008 8:09 AM | Link to this

Next stop ESPN, move over Lou your boy is coming to join the rest of the has-bens.

By Jim

September 17, 2008 8:09 AM | Link to this

Next stop ESPN, move over Lou your boy is coming to join the rest of the has-bens.

By Jack

September 17, 2008 6:12 PM | Link to this

My disdain for Steve Superior is exceeded only by my 24/7 hate for the GT insects. GO DAWGS!

By voice of reason

September 17, 2008 9:41 PM | Link to this

How can anyone feel sorry for spurrier? He’s getting what he deserves at SC. Enjoy going out of coaching a loser at your last stop stevie!