Wednesday, November 24

spur it on

Anti-Duke Post for november 24, 2004.
It is nice to see major media give criticism where criticism is due. It is also nice to see some vindication for the fears we Carolina fans felt upon rumors that Steve Spurrier might come to coach our Tarheels. Yes, there were those misguided fans that wanted to replace "the Heart" Bunting with "the you can read his lips saying $%^$" Spurrier. It is one thing to want wins. It is another thing, altogether, to get those wins from a dookie.
The Times comments, today, on Duke football coach (ok, and then Florida, and then Redskins) Steve Spurrier. For those Carolina fans that looked, confused-othello-like, longingly at Spurrier, a more prescient anology serves well: imagine Coach K doing the Sunday morning wrap up with Woody Durham.
Here is the Times, on the new SC coach:
Sorenson [University of South Carolina President] explained how he couldn't excuse the Gamecocks' uncivilized outburst on the field because it would be "the rankest form of hypocrisy," as he told The State in Columbia, S.C., on Monday; then he embraced a new coach who ranked No. 1 in taunting his Florida State rivals at "Free Shoes University."

This same ball coach has also experienced visor rage and a need to bully the protractor crowd at Vanderbilt as if extra touchdowns made up for lost SAT points. He has revealed a wicked game of musical chairs when choosing his quarterbacks and an unapologetic venom toward the cuddliest granddaddy in Oakley shades, Bobby Bowden.

It was always great theater - until someone got punched, chop-blocked or blindsided. This unsportsmanlike history, however, was not part of the grand presentation yesterday as Sorenson introduced the one and only Steve Spurrier to be the head coach of the South Carolina Gamecocks.