College Football Potpourri Deluxe
Don't Call it a Comeback
Robert Beckmann
Issue date: 11/5/08 Section: Sports
Also, why do fans want to call the opposing team overrated anyway? Aren't you simply devaluing your own team's win?
I'm sure it's very encouraging to the coaches and players. "You guys just beat a team that wasn't that good!"
Score.
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To commemorate the upcoming Arkansas-South Carolina game, here are my favorite Steve Spurrier quotes:
• After Spurrier signed a player from the state of Alabama to South Carolina: "In 12 years at Florida, I don't think we ever signed a kid from the state of Alabama. Of course, we found out later that the scholarships they were giving out at Alabama were worth a whole lot more than ours." (Referencing Alabama's recruiting violations)
• On a 1991 fire in Auburn's football dorm that destroyed 20 books: "The real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet."
• On whether coaching in the NFL is more difficult than coaching in college football: "Yes, because they're no Vanderbilts in the NFL."
• To the photographer taking the Gators' SEC Championship team photo after they had won their fourth consecutive conference title: "This is our annual team picture."
• While at Florida, in alleging Florida State was delivering cheap shots to Gator quarterback Danny Wuerffel: "[Wuerffel] is a New Testament guy. You slap him upside the helmet, and he'll turn the other cheek and say, 'Forgive them, Lord, for they know not what they do.' I'm a little more Old Testament. If you spear our guy in the earhole, I think we're supposed to be able to spear your guy in the earhole."
Robert Beckmann is a senior staff writer for The Arkansas Traveler.
I'm sure it's very encouraging to the coaches and players. "You guys just beat a team that wasn't that good!"
Score.
***
To commemorate the upcoming Arkansas-South Carolina game, here are my favorite Steve Spurrier quotes:
• After Spurrier signed a player from the state of Alabama to South Carolina: "In 12 years at Florida, I don't think we ever signed a kid from the state of Alabama. Of course, we found out later that the scholarships they were giving out at Alabama were worth a whole lot more than ours." (Referencing Alabama's recruiting violations)
• On a 1991 fire in Auburn's football dorm that destroyed 20 books: "The real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet."
• On whether coaching in the NFL is more difficult than coaching in college football: "Yes, because they're no Vanderbilts in the NFL."
• To the photographer taking the Gators' SEC Championship team photo after they had won their fourth consecutive conference title: "This is our annual team picture."
• While at Florida, in alleging Florida State was delivering cheap shots to Gator quarterback Danny Wuerffel: "[Wuerffel] is a New Testament guy. You slap him upside the helmet, and he'll turn the other cheek and say, 'Forgive them, Lord, for they know not what they do.' I'm a little more Old Testament. If you spear our guy in the earhole, I think we're supposed to be able to spear your guy in the earhole."
Robert Beckmann is a senior staff writer for The Arkansas Traveler.
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