Bianchi keeps trying to paint Gator fans as "unrealistic" but in reality
I don't think Gator fans expectations are any different than 2-3 dozen
other big name programs. Give usc-east a couple more years of success
and they'll also be questioning why they're not winning championships.
Of course by then Spurrier will have hung up his visor.
Charlie
On 12/13/2013 10:12 AM, Oliver Barry wrote:
The irony that Spurrier said you can't spell Citrus without UT! Then
Spurrier leaves Florida because fan expectation was too high.
Dr Frankenstein, your monster is calling for you.
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*On Behalf Of *John Bowers
*Sent:* Thursday, December 12, 2013 7:44 PM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* [gatornews] Bianchi: Spurrier doesn't have to worry...at
South Carolina
Spurrier doesn't have to worry about being Mack-Browned or
Muschomped at South Carolina
**
Mike Bianchi
SPORTS COMMENTARY
/5:33 p.m. EST//,////December 12, 2013///
Steve Spurrier couldn't resist good-naturedly gigging the*Gators*
<http://www.orlandosentinel.com/topic/sports/college-sports/florida-gators-ORSPT000172.topic>on
Thursday at a news conference to promote his*South Carolina Gamecocks*
<http://www.orlandosentinel.com/topic/sports/college-sports/south-carolina-gamecocks-ORSPT00000243.topic>playing
the*Wisconsin Badgers*
<http://www.orlandosentinel.com/topic/sports/college-sports/wisconsin-badgers-ORSPT000134.topic>in
the upcoming*Capital One Bowl*
<http://www.orlandosentinel.com/topic/sports/football/capital-one-bowl-EVSPR000041.topic>.
"Somebody told me the Gators are going to be home for the holidays,"
zinged Spurrier, the University of Florida coaching icon and
first*Heisman Trophy*
<http://www.orlandosentinel.com/topic/sports/football/college-football/heisman-trophy-EVSPR000087.topic>winner
in school history. "Maybe we can get a bunch of Gators who'll come to
our ballgame, fill up the stands ... and root for the Gamecocks."
Actually, that might not be entirely necessary since South Carolina
fans are expected to travel en masse to watch the Head Ballcoach's
Gamecocks play in the Cap One Bowl. Which is probably why Spurrier
seems to be having the time of his life at the end of his career. He
is at a place where he can compete for conference and even national
championships, but he's not going to get Mack-Browned if he doesn't
win them.
Unlike so many of the*SEC*
<http://www.orlandosentinel.com/topic/sports/college-sports/southeastern-conference-ORSPT00000246.topic>'s
other ultra-spoiled fan bases, South Carolina doesn't look at Orlando
as a consolation destination. Sure, the Gamecocks would much rather be
conference champions and playing in a*BCS*
<http://www.orlandosentinel.com/topic/sports/bowl-championship-series-EVSPR000091.topic>Bowl,
but they are more than happy to be playing in the Citrus Bowl.
And this is the difference between the Ol' Ballcoach's job with the
Gators and the New Ballcoach's job with the Gamecocks. The Gators won
11 games under Will Muschamp last year and many fans still grumbled
and bought less than half of the school's allotment of tickets to
the*Sugar Bowl*
<http://www.orlandosentinel.com/topic/sports/football/sugar-bowl-EVSPR00003527.topic>.
The Gamecocks, if they beat Wisconsin in the Capital One Bowl, will
have 11 wins and the fan base will be happier than a vampire at the
blood drive.
Spurrier was talking to his good friend,*Oklahoma*
<http://www.orlandosentinel.com/topic/sports/college-sports/oklahoma-sooners-ORSPT00000240.topic>coach
Bob Stoops, about this very topic the other day. The Sooners have the
same record -- 10-2 -- as South Carolina, but the expectation level of
their fan base is vastly different. This is one of the reasons
Spurrier left UF for the NFL after the 2001 season -- because he had
grown weary of trying to feed the monster he'd created.
"It's almost a disgrace every time we lose," Spurrier said at his UF
resignation news conference. "Any time we lose, it's us coaches, we
screwed up. Some people say I can stay at Florida and win 10 games
every year. Well, it's not as easy winning 10 games every year as a
lot of people think."
When Spurrier took the South Carolina job back in 2005, I went up and
interviewed him in Columbia, As you walked into South Carolina's
coaching offices back then there was a huge framed poster proclaiming:
"The University of South Carolina: 1995 Carquest Bowl Champions."
Paying homage to a now-defunct bowl game was proof positive of why
Spurrier chose South Carolina over a possible return to UF. Spurrier
wanted to write history at South Carolina; not attempt to rewrite it
and live up to the unreal expectations he beget in*Gainesville*
<http://www.orlandosentinel.com/topic/us/florida/alachua-county/gainesville-PLGEO100100401010000.topic>.
"The fans up here are starving," Spurrier told me then. "They're
looking for anything to be excited about. We have a chance to do
things here that have never been done.
*I'd rather win one [SEC] division title here than five more there [at
Florida]."*
There was a time when Spurrier coached at UF when he used to
lampoon*Tennessee*
<http://www.orlandosentinel.com/topic/sports/college-sports/tennessee-volunteers-ORSPT000000290.topic>for
playing bowl games in Orlando. Remember, his old booster club jab?
.../"You can't spell Citrus without 'UT.' "/
Now his Gamecocks will be playing at the Citrus Bowl for the second
time in the last three seasons. Two years ago, the Gamecocks
dismantled Nebraska 30-13 at the Capital One Bowl in what Spurrier
calls "one of the biggest wins in school history."
Spurrier spent much of Thursday's news conference lauding Orlando and
the bowl experience here. He called the Cap One "one of the best bowls
in America" and said the Gamecocks are "fired up" about playing in
Orlando.
The University of South Carolina has changed Spurrier's perspective
for the better.
These days, you can't spell Citrus without "USC'" -- and that's a good
thing.
A very good thing.
/*[email protected]* <mailto:[email protected]>. Follow him on
Twitter @BianchiWrites. Listen to his radio show every weekday from 6
to 9 a.m. on 740 AM./
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