Practice vs real game day. Steve Spurrier

#26
#26
You guys can say what you want to, but I will go to my grave hating the gators and Spurrier. I will say it again; I would trade 3 wins a season to beat Florida. Gawd, I hate the gators.
 
#27
#27
I always heard that Spurrier was recruited by UT. He chose not to come because Tennessee was still running the single wing, which practically every school in the country had discarded in favor of variations of the T formation.

he was going to go to ole miss because of their passing game but visited Florida and liked the weather so he decided to go there.
 
#29
#29
This statement is highlt speculative. No wayvto know if that would have happened. Cant blame Wyatt for not changing his entire offensive style to recruit one player whose future success as coach could not be foreseen. It is fun to speculate on what could have been though. Kinda like SNL what if scenarios in the 70s, like
Kal-el's space ship landing in Nazi Germany, resulting in Uberman.
What are you talking about
 
#30
#30
If you are going to mention Steve Spurrier and how his philosophies apply to the 2020 Tennessee Vols, it would be how he handled QB's.

He....

A) Believed that they were like any other position on the field and should be benched if they weren't doing their job.

B) The nature of college football means you can't lose. If a player is struggling, you can't progressively get better as the year goes along and gear up for a playoff run. You have to win. So, if a player is struggling, you don't have the luxury of waiting for him to figure it out. You lose once and you might be out of the national title hunt, not win the SEC, not win the division, etc.

C) If they were too mentally fragile that they would be broken by being benched, they weren't going to be mentally tough enough to get it done anyway.
You'd think all those points seem fairly obvious, yet here we are in year 3...
 
#34
#34
Steve Spurrier?

Wasn't that the guy who kept getting his top-10 ranked gamecocks azz kicked in Knoxville..
 
#36
#36
This statement is highlt speculative. No wayvto know if that would have happened. Cant blame Wyatt for not changing his entire offensive style to recruit one player whose future success as coach could not be foreseen. It is fun to speculate on what could have been though. Kinda like SNL what if scenarios in the 70s, like
Kal-el's space ship landing in Nazi Germany, resulting in Uberman.
Doesn't sound like he would have changed it to fit one recruit. Sounds like most schools were moving on to more modern (for that time) offenses.
Stubbornness seems to be a qualification to be coach at TN - especially when it comes to the QB spot
 
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