I know that everyone is wondering why he can't develop a QB at South Carolina after all of his success at Florida. I just want to quickly point out that while, YES he did turn Danny Awful into a Heisman winner en route to a national title, what other QBs did Spurrier spit out? Shane Matthews went on to a mediocre NFL career. Terry Dean? Doug Johnson-wow what a career with the Falcons. Jesse Palmer and Noah Brandise? Rex Grossman turned into a 1st round bust. I guess these guys had success on the college level.
Because UGA had Goff and Donnan as coach
Because LSU had DiNardo as coach
Because Auburn was on probation and had Terry Bowden as coach
Because Bama had DuBose as coach
Let's not kid ourselves. Spurrier was the man, but the SEC isn't as strong then in the 1990s as it is right now. Florida was nice and all, but FSU and Nebraska dominated that decade. If Spurrier had NEVER left Florida and was still Old Ball Coach in the swamp, I think UGA is STILL the dominant SEC East Program as Spurrier had started to lose the great athletes out of FLA before he left.
I just don't think we should give him all of this credit as a QB guru. Take away Wuerfeull (spelling) and he did NOTHING. Even with Danny, he had ONE! CMR, had two at FSU. He's made Greene into the NCAA's Winningest QB EVER. He took JD Stokley and won an SECCG in his ONLY season as starter. Now he has Matt Stafford. Talk about a QB Guru. Spurrier has more options because he COULDN'T develop them so he just threw about 6 against the wall each year and see which one stuck. THAT'S the one he went with. That isn't coaching. That's recruiting and taking advantage of Jim Donnan.
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