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Steve Spurrier took over at Florida in 1990, the Gators had never won an SEC championship, or more than nine games in a season. In Spurrier's second year, the Gators won 10 games and their first SEC title. Between 1990 and 2001, Florida won six SEC championships, and a national championship in 1996

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Wuerffel once said that Spurrier could "make up a play in six seconds" and knew more about offensive football than anyone in the NFL. The secret to Spurrier's offense was not that it was complex, but that it was exquisite in its simplicity.

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Wuerffel said that Spurrier really had no offense; he just adjusted to the weaknesses of other teams each week, while hiding the Gators' weaknesses.

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A rival coach once said that Spurrier has "a great feel" for the red zone. Spurrier always had a "no sweat" attitude toward the game

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(quote from a BMD who went golfing with the HBC) "I've been complaining for years how we never beat Clemson. Now you've beaten them four years in a row." Spurrier looked at the pudgy banker and said, "What makes you think I give a s--- what your fat ass thinks?"

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On Nick Saban: "He's got a nice little gig going, a little bit like [John] Calipari. He tells guys, 'Hey, three years from now, you're going to be a first-round pick and go.' If he wants to be the greatest coach or one of the greatest coaches in college football, to me, he has to go somewhere besides Alabama and win, because they've always won there at Alabama."

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I'm looking forward to being the next offensive coordinator at Texas A&M University. Gig 'em!

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The real reason Spurrier humiliated Goff went back almost 30 years, to Spurrier's senior year as a player at Florida in 1966. Spurrier had already locked up his Heisman Trophy, and his Gators were 7-0, when the Bulldogs whipped them 27-10, intercepting three of Spurrier's passes. Spurrier never forgets a slight, real or imagined -- like he said, he's an Old Testament kind of guy.

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The real reason Spurrier humiliated Goff went back almost 30 years, to Spurrier's senior year as a player at Florida in 1966. Spurrier had already locked up his Heisman Trophy, and his Gators were 7-0, when the Bulldogs whipped them 27-10, intercepting three of Spurrier's passes. Spurrier never forgets a slight, real or imagined -- like he said, he's an Old Testament kind of guy.

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The real reason Spurrier humiliated Goff went back almost 30 years, to Spurrier's senior year as a player at Florida in 1966. Spurrier had already locked up his Heisman Trophy, and his Gators were 7-0, when the Bulldogs whipped them 27-10, intercepting three of Spurrier's passes. Spurrier never forgets a slight, real or imagined -- like he said, he's an Old Testament kind of guy.

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Would like to see him as a consultant but Spav is our guy!

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The real reason Spurrier humiliated Goff went back almost 30 years, to Spurrier's senior year as a player at Florida in 1966. Spurrier had already locked up his Heisman Trophy, and his Gators were 7-0, when the Bulldogs whipped them 27-10, intercepting three of Spurrier's passes. Spurrier never forgets a slight, real or imagined -- like he said, he's an Old Testament kind of guy.

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Jerri was stunned, not by her husband's being out of a job, but by his admission "that he is humbled. To know a kinder, gentler Spurrier? But I saw it." Still, life was gloomy around the Spurrier house because "He didn't know what to do," said Jerri.

Scott, his teenaged adopted son, said, "It wasn't a fun time, I can tell you that much."

Spurrier occupied himself by playing golf regularly with the Redskins' dentist, Charles Nardiello. But eventually even the dentist had to remind him, "Coach, I can't play every day. I gotta work." Besides, said Jerri, Spurrier "wasn't getting any better at golf. And the kitchen was getting awful small."

Spurrier had always said Jerri was "the perfect coach's wife." She often went to his practices and glad-handed fans and the players' families. She baked cookies for the players and hugged them as if they were her own children. She even hugged the sportswriters whom her husband clashed with. One sportswriter told me it embarrassed him. He told her it wasn't right, he had to maintain an objective distance as a journalist. "But it was her way of softening some of the things he did to the press," he said. "She was his enabler." When Spurrier gave one of his players a bad time, Jerri went and hugged the boy's mother, who told the sportswriter, "That's the huggingest ***** I ever met."

With her husband out of a job, Jerri seemed lost, too. She had loved being the coach's wife. "I dread the day that we're not doing this," she told The Post and Courier last spring, "because it's my life."

She liked to joke that one of the advantages of being a coach's wife was that "you never had to clean the house, you just moved." She liked the moving, a new city, a new team, new action.

Mostly she loved the action of the games, the fans, the fact that life as Spurrier's wife was "like hanging on to the back of a train." Now the train was stopped, silent and still in the railroad yard, rusting.

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The real reason Spurrier humiliated Goff went back almost 30 years, to Spurrier's senior year as a player at Florida in 1966. Spurrier had already locked up his Heisman Trophy, and his Gators were 7-0, when the Bulldogs whipped them 27-10, intercepting three of Spurrier's passes. Spurrier never forgets a slight, real or imagined -- like he said, he's an Old Testament kind of guy.

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Steve Spurrier took over the Redskins flush from his successes at Florida, and his first preseason press conferences were exercises in grandiosity. He told Redskins owner Dan Snyder that the first game ball he'd present to him would be after his first win over the Dallas Cowboys. "Hopefully, they'll be our Georgia," Spurrier said. Cowboys coach Dave Campo later responded, "I'm sure that's what he'd like us to be. I don't think he wants us to be like Miami or Florida State."

In Spurrier's mind, the NFL was just an extension of the SEC, and his Florida successes simply would extend to Washington. He said there were only three teams to beat in the Redskins' division, compared to the larger SEC.

He brought several of his Florida coaches with him to the NFL, including his son, Steve Jr. -- and even his two former Florida quarterbacks, Shane Matthews and Danny Wuerffel.

An old friend, Pepper Rodgers, told him, "There are no Vanderbilts in the NFL."

But Spurrier felt, how hard could it be to win in this pro league? All his team had to do was "try to score as much as we can and see how we did. We pitched it around in the USFL. We pitched it around at Duke. We pitched it around at Florida. I came here to see if we can pitch it around in the NFL. I don't see why we can't."

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Wuerffel said that Spurrier really had no offense; he just adjusted to the weaknesses of other teams each week, while hiding the Gators' weaknesses.

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On illegal hits against Danny Wuerffel: "He's like a New Testament person. He gets slapped up side the face, and turns the other cheek and says, 'Lord, forgive them for they know not what they're doing.' I'm probably more of an Old Testament guy. You spear our guy in the earhole, we think we're supposed to spear you in the earhole. That's kind of where we're a little different."

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Wuerffel said that Spurrier really had no offense; he just adjusted to the weaknesses of other teams each week, while hiding the Gators' weaknesses.

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Winner winner, chicken dinner!

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