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The Paul Finebaum Show
"steve spurrier" Discussed on The Paul Finebaum Show
"Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I don't know. I mean, I don't know what compels them and I mean, I guess in Sabin's case, I mean, you would know better than me, but it just, I mean, that's why I'm kind of like searching for ideas. Maybe, I mean, they clearly underachieved this year. I mean, and so maybe it's a way to deflect some attention to if the fan base is less focused on how they underperformed rather than we got shafted. Well, I was glad to see most reasonable people, including you, shoot down this. Absolute incomprehensible straw dog, the vaguest betting line should now be determined who goes to the playoffs. And by the way, I don't know, I'd love to know how it went down, but something tells me Nick Saban didn't walk into the studio in front of the camera with that in his mind. It seems like some flak around him gave him that. And he went down with the ship as a result. You really think he's taking marching orders from somebody else? I think when it comes to public relations, somebody put that in his head, Billy, and maybe I'm giving Nick Saban way too much credit to go down to the lowest common denominator like a fan at the end of the bar and start screaming, hey, well, we would have been favored. Yeah, yeah. And by the way, I don't know, you would maybe know this. I certainly don't, but when is the last time Alabama has not been favored? I think I do know this. Since 2000 and 9, the SEC championship game Billy, I believe Alabama has been an underdog twice. They were an underdog in 2015 at Georgia. By one and a half points and one by three or four touchdowns, and I'm trying to remember were they an underdog in the national championship game, somebody I think they were, they may have been a one or two point underdog in that game this year. So those would be the only two times. And most since 2009, I mean, that was wow. That's remarkable. I'm pretty sure that. Yeah. Well, then they've really underachieved. Yeah, going by the oddsmakers. I want Steve spurrier once walked. I once saw him and he said, Alabama had just lost. He said, how did they ever lose? They have the best talent. They're not supposed to lose. And I think the people that come up with the betting line, however they do that. It's supportive of that, but anyway, none of the matters you're right, you know, we have the four tomorrow. Nobody will really care much, but I was really intrigued by what you said. Okay, but yeah, let me amend what I just said. Georgia was favored both in the SEC championship game last year and the national championship. Until last December, 52 weeks ago, Alabama had been the underdog one time. So I think the final jeopardy question is, who other than Georgia has been favored over in Alabama in the last 15 years or so and the answer is nobody. Yeah. Well, that's really remarkable. So yeah, I don't know. Yeah, the whole thing, the whole thing was baffling and I don't know. In my eyes, kind of unseemly, but. Who am I, who am I to say? Well, you did say it. So that's who you are. That's true. You're not alone. Billy witch, joining us from The New York Times appreciate that very much. We head to the break now and we'll get your reaction to that and more right after this. Hey there, I'm Julie foudy alongside Lindsey from the podcast laughter permitted. It's been so much fun to watch women's sports is just crushed it on so many fronts over these past few years, especially, but did you know, even though 84% of fans are interested
The Paul Finebaum Show
"steve spurrier" Discussed on The Paul Finebaum Show
"Because after the Utah game, everybody was really high. It's been a struggle since then. What do you see when you watch the team? Yeah, Paul, we are really struggling on defense. I go back and tell people our teams in the 90s were so good. Our office was so good just because we got the ball right back all the time. I mean, I remember the first game against George in 90. I think they punted 11 times, something like that. So when you're offense, there's lots of opportunities. I've got a score a lot of bullets. So if we put the game right now, that's pretty good. We can't get the other guys off. I think we're second worse than the nation in third down defense. And I don't have the answer. I hope we try something different on third down defenses this week because what we've been doing had been working at all. So our office, we can run the ball at times Anthony Richardson, it looks like Lamar Jackson. Other times, it looks so good. But he's a talented player and I think we need to take care of the ball real well. And our defense comes alive. It will have a chance for an upset. I thought the people down here from Missouri only lost a four points. And we beat Missouri by 7. So if you use that analogy, we're three fourths better than the bulldogs. Yeah. That's a good analysis. I don't know if that will get very far. But what do you make of those goals for the work? I'm not betting on it, but it's positive second. Georgia early on looks so good and then you mentioned the Missouri game. They've had some good outings but there's a lot of question marks about how this team compares. When you watch Georgia, what are your thoughts? Oh, they're very good. There's no question about that. And for us to win, we got to really play well. You got to play well, stay on the field. I think you stay out there as long as we can and limit their positions if we can't. And score touchdowns. I thought Eli Drake, which, if you guys can score touchdowns instead of kicking all those field goals, they'd had a chance to upset George. I know as a coach, we've all been there. You look back on some crucial losses and there's one in games you had to kick a bunch of field goals. So anyway, touchdowns, very few feel goes and maximize our chances. If that happens in a break or two, goes our way. We got a chance to win. Coach, let me get your thoughts on what's going on right now in Knoxville and your assessment of Josh hyper and the way he runs that team. Oh, I think the best office in the country right now, Josh hapless. Coach of the year. Hooker's leading Heisman candidate. And I was watching that game Alabama game with some friends and got looked at me and said, coach, you pulling for Tennessee. That's, of course, I'm fuller from Tennessee. I'm from Tennessee. You didn't know that? And I said, he show us all. We always pull against him. And I say, well, if the division race depended on the illusion, of course, we had hoped that would happen. But Alabama, I think a lot of people in the SEC the south have said, hey, they've won enough. Let's get some other people with a chance to win some championships. So yes, admire what they've done up there. They throw it around. Maybe better than anybody in the country right now. So if that continues, I think they got a chance for that real big season. Coach mentioning, you mentioned Alabama and I think we'd asked you in the past about this run of Alabama quarterbacks from Jalen hurts the two of Mac Jones and now Bryce young. When you watch Brian play, just assess his talent and what he means. Yeah. He's a little bit like Patrick Mahomes. He's not quite 6 three or whatever. But yeah, he can run around. He can throw it from all angles and side arm and just add the other. Oh, he's an excellent player. And I do a little podcast down here, and I throw the gas the other day, I said, fellas, don't forget about Alabama. As far as winning the SEC, as far as winning it all, I still got ballplayers all over the place as we all know. They just had quite put it together yet. But that one loss may have just shaken them up enough because they clobbered this city to state. You know, I miss it states office has been going up down the field almost everybody. And they had a shutout to the last play of the game. So Alabama is not out of all this, all this race is right now. And they still win the division. When the SEC and win it all and they know that. And keep those guys in the back of your mind. Speaking of Alabama, they certainly corrected a lot against Mississippi, but it was really interesting and bewildering at times to watch them this year with all the penalties. Can you explain to us how that happens? That is surprising. For Alabama's teams, obviously, as much as they've won, they don't play with a lot of penalties, so they don't beat themselves at all. But they have had more than normal. I don't have the answer. I asked the coaches what's happened out there. I've always thought every coach, you coach your position, you've got to keep those gas from unnecessary penalty. What happened occasionally? But they have had more than usual. So but hey, they can correct that. So I sort of look for them to have fewer and fewer as we finish the year. Talking to Steve spurrier here, coach me, before you go, as you look at the national scene, we talk so much about the three from the SEC that are contending, I'm curious your thoughts on Ohio State in particular because they seem like they have everything going for them. What do you think in terms of how they compare and contrast with the SEC leaders? Yeah, they do have everything in their schedule has not been anything like the SEC gas when they start playing each other. You know, the Big Ten is turned into oh hashtag miss in this year. I heard Ricky newhouse will talk about that this morning. That's about it for up there. And Michigan hadn't played anybody out of conference. So they need to toughen up their schedules a little bit if you ask me. And get some big teams play each other. But it is what it is, as we all know, scheduling is so important to whatever your record is going to be at the end of the year. So they'll be there in the winter, probably that game. Ohio State Michigan. Could easily win it all and could be one of the final four teams. When the Big Ten and be one of the final four, yeah. Coach Steve spurrier, joining us coach, it's always great to visit, we appreciate your time very much. Yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing maybe Laura and T boat and I did any warfare disaster street ministry foundation of its Seattle and Georgia. I'll be up there. And always good to see another gator. And ESPN stars like you and Lauren debo. Enrollment. Well, I think that last one kind of messed up the star mentality. Coach. Good talking to you, Paul. Tell Danny, hello, good to talk to you. Thank you very much. These furry Jordans. Okay. Bye bye. You got it. Always. By the way, I don't want to defend Ohio State here, but I'm going to Ohio State opened the season against Notre-Dame. Can you can you do any better than that from a perception standpoint? I'm just saying.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"steve spurrier" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"One of the NFL's most prominent voices that co host of NBC Sunday Night football prime time TV's number one TV show for 11 consecutive years. Chris collinsworth, Chris, welcome to the show, sir. Man, 11 years is like, where did the time go? It's been unbelievable. Actually, this is, I think my 14th year on the show and 11 straight years now or ten straight years is the number one show on TV. So it's been a nice nice little run here that we put together. Well, Chris, I mean, look, we dinosaurs remember with clarity, your epic Super Bowl matchups versus the niners, your unbelievable 206 yard game versus Baltimore back in 83, but most of Gen Z knows you as the face of Sunday Night football and the voice of Madden O 9 ten, 11 and 12. So I think for our audience, what I think we'd love to hear is if you could reflect briefly, not just on your professional on your collegiate accomplishments. I mean, how do you kind of redefine the wide receiver position at University of Florida? I mean, I mean, am I right, a young Steve spurrier was your coach back then? He was the offensive coordinator and actually Mike Shanahan was another offensive coordinator there. Oh, wow. Mike Shanahan was 26 years old. He came in there. We had not won a game the year before. One O ten and one. And Shana in comes in, he's 26. And so after the games, he'd want to hang out with the players. So we take him out to the bars, and we wouldn't get carded, and he would. To give you some idea of how long I've known some around the league, but yeah, spurrier was amazing. Just one of the most creative offensive minds and I actually started out as a quarterback there in Steve's for your came in, watch me throw the ball one day and I became a wide receiver the next day. So give you some idea of where all this has led by my claim to fame, I guess, at the university of Florida was in my very first game that I ever played against rice university 99 yard touchdown. I threw a 99 yard touchdown as a quarterback, which has become like the greatest trivia question. Who holds the NCAA record for the longest touchdown pass and you literally would have to go down 27 million people before you got to my name. And so if you know any answer to that when you can win any bar fight. Chris, I got to ask you about some of the big themes that will be top of mind as we begin this new NFL season and I can't stop reading about deshaun Watson and how the NFL and the Players Association have finally we should agreement. We understand it will be an 11 game suspension without pay, a fine of $5 million in this mandatory evaluation by behavioral experts with some kind of treatment program. Who comes out of this looking okay, who comes out of this looking bad? I don't think anybody comes out of this looking okay. It's a tough day for the National Football League and deshaun Watson, it's just disappointing. I have to tell you that I did not see this coming. I met with deshaun Watson, a lot of times and I actually had made the comment that out of the top ten kind of guys in the league. I would have had deshaun Watson on my list. There was a moment in time when there were hurricanes and Houston or something happened flooding whatever it was. And there were three ladies in the worked in the lunch room. Obviously didn't have very much at all. And all of them had their houses ruined. And he, if I remember the story correctly, gave his first paycheck ever for those three ladies. And I remember what an impression he made and so this is one of those that we all make mistakes, but this one fits on the high end of the mistakes and so you hope that deshaun Watson through all that therapy and all the things that he'll be going through can get his life back together and move forward, but for the National Football League, there's nothing that any of us want more than to bring women into the family, right? Whether it's NBC, whether it's the NFL, that that's the greatest of the growth. Potential for the National Football League, the more and more and more that we're seeing women involved with football, whether it be coaching, whether it be officiating, whether it just be as fans. And that's a really exciting prospect for all of us. And this is a setback. I mean, there's just no question about it. It's a setback. And I think it's a big reason why you saw Roger Goodell and the NFL want to maximize the penalty and yet what they also didn't want to do was land back in court. And so they go back in, they reach some kind of a settlement, but to open this football season with this kind of story is not what any of us wanted. One of the big players this season. And I'm speaking as a fantasy football junkie, just like Damian. If you don't have Jonathan Taylor, as you number one pick running back for the Indianapolis Colts, you obviously had too many beers. Second and
Bloomberg Radio New York
"steve spurrier" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Prominent voices that co host of NBC Sunday Night football prime time TV's number one TV show for 11 consecutive years. Chris collinsworth, Chris, welcome to the show, sir. Man, 11 years is like, where did the time go? It's been unbelievable. Actually, this is, I think my 14th year on the show and 11 straight years now or ten straight years is the number one show on TV. So it's been a nice nice little run here that we put together. Well, Chris, I mean, look, we dinosaurs remember with clarity, your epic Super Bowl matchups versus the niners, your unbelievable 206 yard game versus Baltimore back in 83, but most of Gen Z knows you as the face of Sunday Night football on the voice of Madden O 9 ten, 11 and 12. So I think for our audience what I think we'd love to hear is if you could reflect briefly, not just on your professional on your collegiate accomplishments. I mean, how do you kind of redefine the wide receiver position at University of Florida? I mean, I mean, am I right, a young Steve spurrier was your coach back then? He was the offensive coordinator and actually Mike Shanahan was another offensive coordinator there. Oh, wow. Mike Shanahan was 26 years old. He came in there. We had not won a game the year before. When O ten and one, and Shannon comes in, he's 26. And so after the games, he'd want to hang out with the players. So we take him out to the bars, and we wouldn't get carded, and he would. So to give you some idea of how long I've known some of these people around the league, but yeah, spurrier was amazing. Just one of the most creative offensive minds and I actually started out as a quarterback there in Steve's for your came in, watch me throw the ball one day and I became a wide receiver the next day. So it gave you some idea of where all this has led by my claim to fame, I guess, at the university of Florida was in my very first game that I ever played against rice university. I threw a 99 yard touchdown as a quarterback, which has become like the greatest trivia question. Who holds the NCAA record for the longest touchdown pass and you literally would have to go down 27 million people before you got to my name. And so if you know the answer to that when you can win any bar fight. Chris, I got to ask you about some of the big themes that will be top of mind as we begin this new NFL season. And I can't stop reading about deshaun Watson and how the NFL and the Players Association have finally we should agreement we understand will be an 11 game suspension without pay, a fine of $5 million and this mandatory evaluation by behavioral experts with some kind of treatment program. Who comes out of this looking okay, who comes out of this looking bad? I don't think anybody comes out of this looking okay. It's a tough day for the National Football League and deshaun Watson, it's just disappointing. I have to tell you that I did not see this coming. I met with deshaun Watson, a lot of times and I actually had made the comment that out of the top ten kind of guys in the league. I would have had deshaun Watson on my list. There was a moment in time when there were hurricanes and Houston or something happened flooding whatever it was. And there were three ladies in the worked in the lunch room, obviously didn't have very much at all. And all of them had their houses ruined. And he, if I remember the story correctly, gave his first paycheck ever for those three ladies. And I can remember what an impression he made. And so this is one of those that we all make mistakes, but this one fits on the high end of the stakes and so you hope that deshaun Watson through all that therapy and all the things that he'll be going through can get his life back together and move forward, but for the National Football League, there's nothing that any of us want more than to bring women into the family, right? Whether it's NBC, whether it's the NFL, that that's the greatest, the growth. Potential for the National Football League that more and more and more that we're seeing women involved with football, whether it be coaching, whether it be officiating, whether it just be as fans. And that's a really exciting prospect for all of us. And this is a setback. I mean, there's just no question about it. It's a setback. And I think it's a big reason why you saw Roger Goodell and the NFL want to maximize the penalty and yet what they also didn't want to do was land back in court. And so they go back in, they reach some kind of a settlement, but to open this football season with this kind of story is not what any of us wanted. One of the big players this season. And I'm speaking as a fantasy football junkie. Just like Damien, if you don't have Jonathan Taylor, as your number one pick running back for the Indianapolis Colts, you obviously had too many beers. Second
The Paul Finebaum Show
"steve spurrier" Discussed on The Paul Finebaum Show
"Bama cleaned him up in the let me jump in before before we hear from a thousand South Carolina fans. It is worth noting in 2010, Alabama did lose that Columbia against South Carolina on that epic takedown of the number one team in the country. But keep talking, go ahead. Well, I mean, you know, Steve spurrier, another guy that I don't think gets his dorm clad Billy Napier finally got his phone number and it's starting to include him in some things. That's smart to do that. Can I ask you a question? I don't mean to hijack my own interview with you, but what is this torch that you're caring for Steve spurrier, but every time he gets slighted, I mean, what are you talking about there? Most of us aren't intimate with spurrier that we know whether or not Billy Napier has bothered to call him up or not. Can you explain that? Well, I just think Steve spurrier is on the Mount Rushmore of SEC coaches. I don't think we talk about Steve spurrier enough. I think we probably talked about, you know, the great Paul Bear Bryant, far more after his death than we do a Steve spurrier who's very much alive and certainly, you know, one of the greatest minds in college football that I think, you know, kind of gets overlooked. And I think that I'm a well aware who spurrier is. I'm not aware of why he just got his phone number while Billy Napier just while these two guys just got together. That's what I was asking you about. Oh, yeah. I'm just making light of coach Napier being an outsider coming in from Louisiana and, you know, bringing a lot of the Nick Saban, you know, coaching strategies to Gainesville when you've got the most successful coach in Florida history, right? I just find all that curious. So that was an offhanded comment, Paul. But it's not the first time we've heard that from you and I am well aware that you inspire your Friends. And I consider Steve spurrier a friend, but I also realized that he's been gone for 7 years and whether or not Billy Napier has time to sit out and trade plays with the HBC. I don't think it's really terribly important right now for him to get Florida back on track. Well, if I were Billy Napier, I would go to the spurrier grill and I don't know if you've been there yet, Paul, but they've not for the record. Okay, well, for the record, they have all of spurrier's greatest plays as wallpaper in the bathroom. So I think Billy api needs to go to spurrier's grill and spend some time in the bathroom, studying up on all of the Steve spurrier plays from yesterday. I'm not kidding. It's one of the most incredible things I've ever seen. To see all these plays on the nevertheless. It's just for the record. Are you an investor in spurrier's grill? I was just curious with all the plugs. You're giving for that restaurant. No, I'm not. I'm just trying to just trying to put things into perspective on a Monday. More importantly, I know this will go down as one of the most scatter shooting interviews of my life. I just noticed who is buried behind you. Well, according to Cherokee legend, that's the underground panther fountain. It's been there since 1927. Here in Sequoia hills, one of the more historic places in the southeastern. Off the beaten path, I'm surprised that you didn't venture over here at some point during your time at the university of Tennessee when you were establishing yourself as one of the finest young journalists in the southeastern conference. I think I was there at night. You probably were recognized during the daylight. Oh, wow, that's good. You might find some old beer cans thrown in those Woods that we tossed back in the day. So Mike, I mean, let me try to do some cleanup here on isle of water, this interview, which has been, it's gotten way beyond my dreams in terms of all the distractions to spur your grill plug you had panties in a wad over John Harbaugh sliding your guy, Kirby smart who, by the way, we did talk to as well on our show on Friday. You may have missed that. That was big, it was big you to do that. I know Kirby appreciate you made time for him. There were a lot of other, I know they've been, but listen, actually, Paul, here's what we really got to get ready for. The SEC and we love football. But this baseball that's coming up. And that's what I was up here for to see this Tennessee baseball team. This may be the best SEC baseball team since 1997 LSU and I know the SEC network has carried a lot of these games, but what Tony vitello was done here is Ruth Ian. And watching this Tennessee. Now, George was able to get one from Tennessee and we're getting ready for the SEC tournament Hoover, of course. And I know you've written columns from there before, but there's some dynamic stuff happened in SEC baseball. I had to jump that and get up here and see these vowels in person. That baseball team is unbelievable. So Michael, let's get back to Georgia here after the plug for Tony Vitale for mayor. We had Kirby on the other day. He had an interesting comment I thought about tampering. He said a lot of players are calling him. That's really where the tampering issues begin. What did you make out of that comment? Well, I thought it was interesting. It's not surprising, you know, when you win, I'm sure that Nick Saban has the same issues and listen, everybody wants to be a part of a good thing, obviously. And Kirby has a lot of momentum right now. We haven't seen Georgia take anyone in the portal. They've lost 7 guys, four of them, where former starters, but he's done a really nice job recruiting and refilling the tank, so to speak. Now, what I thought was interesting in your interviews, by the way, are fantastic. We write a lot of stories with your ability to get these newsmakers and you do ask the tough questions. And I know I really appreciate that as a journalist, but Kirby smart saying that he wants to score more points. I mean, that sounds like kind of a no duh kind of comment, but I think he realizes he has to. I think he realizes that last year was the exception to the rule winning with defense. I think he also realizes that if he wants to get recruits, he needs to light up the scoreboard. And that means playing offense in the fourth quarter, something Georgia didn't have to do a lot of, but in this arch Manning race and I thought you encapsulated this well last Friday. Arch Manning is still very much up in the air and I'm hearing from sources that Brian Kelly, I guess his accent struck just right, Brian Kelly and LSU now are in this hunt a strong dog in the hunt. So Georgia Ellis Hugh Alabama, Texas. And I think Kirby smart realizes that the dogs need to light up the scoreboard if they want to get some talented recruits in here again next year. Before you go, the preseason publications are all coming out. And I don't know. Maybe I am surprised. I don't know. You helped me with this because you covered the dogs..
The Paul Finebaum Show
"steve spurrier" Discussed on The Paul Finebaum Show
"Season. I feel like analytics and dogs and give it a listen wherever you get your podcasts. We're now bringing the radio audience back. They were not here for those two and a half minutes. So to everyone, we are back here final couple of segments of the show. Mark kiviak. And one last headline. This is in Saturday down south, obviously a pretty bad day at the news desk at Saturday down south. This just moves. Find bomb says farewell to a longtime lead producer marquee act. So what I'd like to do, Mark, is go back to the beginning, I met you, you worked at ESPN U. I was in this building after moving here. Doing the radio show before the SEC network launched. I'll give you credit. You came in pretty quickly and said, you'd like to hang out. So you hung out for a number of months. Oh, yeah. Well, this is right when your book came out. So I'll never forget this because I sat in that radio room with you. And all you heard, all I heard was the sharpie. And you were signing the books, nonstop, because you had, it was a big book. This was the book that we've talked about before in my conference. And because of the dance and everything that went into this book, I had to sign about 5000 copies of the book. Yes. And so you were doing that during the show. That was amazing. There was no way to do it. I once went on a trip. And I signed them the entire flight, and then I found out I still had a couple of thousand to sign. So I would sign them during the radio show. Yeah. But I remember sitting in that room. And I didn't know much about the show. But I sat there for like two hours listening. And it was actually an I man call. Back and forth and I just sat there. I walked out and I go, wow. I think I can sit here and listen to this every day for 8 years. 5 days a week, four hours a day. No, I mean, if you could do it, why not? So it was fun because when we jumped in and I was like, yes, I'd love to do this. And right after that, we started getting calls from a lot of the regulars getting pictures. Getting emails and things like that. Everybody loved to see their picture around the screen and being involved with it. And you kind of saw everybody that you brought in and it was off to the races. And you brought a different element, you're from Rochester, New York. You went to saint bonaventure, your dad's a Notre-Dame guy. So you were not, I mean, you knew the SEC, but it's not like you had lived at like the rest of us. No, no, that was all new. That was all new. And it was eye opening. I mean, my first experience with the SEC, let's be honest. In the 80s when I was growing up, the SEC wasn't great. Notre-Dame, won a national championship, Miami was really good. I was rooting for Alabama when they beat Miami. In 92, you know, because I was like, oh, this Alabama team. I've never seen them be good before. Now they're beating by Amy, who was really good. So this was great. But truly, my first SEC experience with Steve spurrier, like watching those gator teams and watching them come through. So fast forward when I get into this role and everything, it's still one of the coolest things. I get giggles every time they do it. And I get, I call coach spurrier to see if he wants to come on the show and he calls me back. Hey, Mark, how you doing? You know? And he gets all excited. Coach, can you come on the show? And I giggle like, so cool, because it was just something like, that was my first experience with the SEC watching him. In the 90s dominate, and now calling him to come out of the show. I was like, this is awesome. Loved it. We're also going to include some of your calls here, because I know a lot of people really are a lot of people want to say goodbye. Goodbye. There's I'm sure there's some other things. Randy's already left. There is one thing before we before we get to the calls. If there is something I did want to leave for the show. Okay. This is important. Everybody, we talked about the trophy. I don't know if Randy, you can zoom in on that. We have the page 54 caller of the year award. And since everybody has an NIL sponsorship, I sponsored it myself. That's true. So I will send this out. And the first latest one legend is the one I put on here. He's the latest call. Yeah, 2022 legend. Well, why don't we put legend on the phone here? And you're on the air. In our QBI, I didn't know you were the east coast, baby. I did live in Baltimore for a little while too, legend. So there's that too. Hey. Hey, we brought this in. I grew up in Baltimore. I think Brooks were always in doubt of united back in the day. Hey, man, I just want to tell you what a privilege it's been for you to be a part of the show, man. You know, there's a rule in the NFL. As a lifelong Coke fan, you might hate Tennessee, you may hate over and but when that commissioner gets up there and says, Peyton Manning, you forgive everything he ever committed. Tennessee when he comes apart a blue nation. Boogerman and you out there, you can trust the fire. You as LSU, but you became blue nation, baby. One that sent me here with Peyton. But I'll forgive him. And you're a Notre-Dame fan, dude. And I hate Notre-Dame with a passion. But the moment you.
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"steve spurrier" Discussed on The Paul Finebaum Show
"Lot of those Gators from that era, I could understand how special it was for them to celebrate coach spurrier and it really helped me understand why they dominated. And I thought to myself, I haven't had that feeling or those thoughts about a Florida program. Since brewer was there and I'm just not sure I'm bought in on this new head coach that he can turn things around in any quick or formal fashion. Mike, before you go, I know you've been very involved in a special event that occurred the other night. We talked about it with the awarding of the first year coach award to two people hypo and Bieber. Give us a backstory on all this. Yeah, well, you know, this first year coach of the year award is one of the award sponsored by the football writers association of America. They do the outland trophy the niggers key trophy. We do a fresh metal American team I've been involved with for 21 years and you know about a year and a half ago I reached out to coach spurrier and said, you know, I don't have a namesake for this award. Would you be interested in this? And you look at what coach spurrier did it duke. Can you look at what he did at Florida? You look what he did in South Carolina. You want to talk about instant success, man. That's the real original. That's no fake. That's no phony. That's no copycat system. There was only one Steve spurrier. He did it his way. He dominated and he raised the level of play in the SEC. He really changed the game. I know you remember this. All we were both writing in Alabama when spurrier was dominating in the Atlanta journal constitution dared to run a picture of spurrier next to the image of Bear Bryant putting a house to ad on spurrier, Alabama fans flipped out. That's how special spurrier was. We celebrate him now with this award. And this year, spurrier insisted that both beamer and hypo were the deserving coaches. I said, coach, we can only have just one. But just like back in the day, when he drew those plays up on the sideline, he said, nah, we're having two, it's gonna work and you're gonna like it, Mike. I said, all right, man, you know, you're the head ball coach, and he was right. It came off without a hitch, the coach has brought their families down there, and there was a lot of goodwill talking SEC football and spurrier's gridiron grill there and Gainesville, Florida..
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"steve spurrier" Discussed on The Paul Finebaum Show
"Every week, we'll free you the upcoming slate of college football games all over the country. We'll let you know what favorites to hammer and who to avoid. Players to watch out for and everything else you need to know. It's Denver Steven the bear. Download it, wherever you get your podcast. You know, here's what I said about number 5 is turn around and get penalty. He said, somebody was going forward. You know, hey, why don't you get somebody else out there? Is that if I have somebody better? Should be after. You know? I don't know. Where are you going find a better defense in coronado? Do you? Yeah, I think I could do it. If you give me about 30 seconds, I think I can give you a couple of names, but I appreciate your contribution anyway. Paul is up next in Georgia. Hey Paul, go right ahead. Thank you, Larry. I'm excuse me. Thank you, Paul. This is Paul from Gainesville, Georgia, not gainsville, Florida. I'm glad to hear that. Yeah. Well, Paul, it's hard for me to believe that it's been 41 years, the only Georgia Florida game I ever went to was the 1980 game and I was a young football coach and gains were high. We played a game on Friday night. We got in the car, rode down there. We were watching the game and I was worried about getting back for films that was back in the days when we only had one film reeled real. And we had to get back and the head coach would have our heads and we were down there and I said, this game is over, we need to get out of here, the traffic is going to be awful. And I was arguing with my buddy and outstanding in the aisle and happened to be at the end of the end zone and I heard a roar and I looked down and here he comes, Lindsey Scott and Lindsey Scott right down the sideline and he scored and everybody in my section must have been drinking bourbon because they threw it up in the air and I smell like bourbon all the way back home to Gainesville, Georgia. And we made it back and we got the film grated and that was the only one I've been to and every year it comes up and I think about being a young coach. Yeah, you know, Paul, if you had been grading that film, I mean, the number of miss tackles was unbelievable. And you know who, and I always heard this, you might be able to verify. The biggest Georgia fan ever Louis Gaza grizard was in the parking lot. He thought it was over. He told you, all I know, I mean, I remember when it happened. I was at another game and I heard people screaming. I was at an auburn game that year. And that day, and I mean, when you hear the replay of Larry munch and he had given up, I mean, he said, that's what made that call. Great. And he was right. I've given up. You've given up, you know it. You know it. You came up. You know it? Now, how long how long did you coach? Paul? A matter of fact. I'm still coaching. You're still coaching here. I'm not a teacher anymore. I'm a coach and I'm not coaching football. My main sport was high school wrestling. If you told me at 70 years old, I'd still be coaching wrestling, I think you're crazy, but it's a lot of fun and working with the kids. I got a brand new niece so I'm hoping I'll make it through the season this year. You're just like Sabrina. He's got a new what has he got a new WhatsApp in get? They knew. Yeah, yeah. You know, at 70, there's new everything. Well, that's fantastic. I'm really glad to hear from you. Well, thank you. Enjoy your show and every year it comes around. I think about standing there and looking down the satellite and here he came right at us, I said, oh my God. No, listen, I know the feeling. I've done that once or twice. You had to get out. You have to get out of some place and you find out later how bizarre it was. Thanks for the call. Dennis is up next to hello Dennis. Hi, Paula, how are you doing? Dennis, we are doing great. I'll tell you what, I have it, George. Listen to the whole to the house show. I've got one question. George Hayes and F 5 talk to. The most unlabeled person, janky Cheryl. About three years, four years ago. Everyone said, you might say there's going to be four different conferences. They're going to be 16. And I think it's come to yeah. Dennis Jackie has been telling has been predicting that for about 30 years. Jackie's one of the smartest football people I've ever met and he saw the super conferences back then. And I don't know how quickly we'll get there and it's an interesting question for the commissioner here in about 30 minutes. It will be asked about where we are on all that. Chris is up next in Tennessee. Hello, Chris. Paul, I want to throw something out to you thank bad and it follows up and watch out just talking about the super conferences. Texas just announced that they want to join this as C, Oklahoma also but Oklahoma, not part of this discussion, because they are following Texas Texas big money in the big cloud and they are the big dog in the show. But my question is, why did it take as an out at this time? Now talk about it. It's been all in the sports media that Texas is very high over recruiting a certain house. Right. Average every school in the country would like to have that boy. That boy is deeply rooted where he lives and there's a seat. Texas wants him by it. I know that from fact from another recruit that talked to Texas. There he is, Texas, we also got a strong chance getting that boy if it looks like they're certain to go right into their safe. Well, Chris, I don't know specifically where one player entered into a hundred hundreds of millions of dollar decision. But I do think the main reason Texas made that move was for recruiting. I'm completely in agreement with you on that. Well, that can look my point is it's hard to believe that one hasco student could affect and like your secure evident has been saying, but could affect the schools might in a move at a certain time to entire them. Well, the one thing we don't know and I don't think the commissioner knows because it's still under discussion is when exactly does this happen. But if you're down there in New Orleans trying to make a decision a year and a half into the future, you're probably paying pretty close attention, but even and I think you're right. I feel pretty comfortable in saying that the young man likes Texas, but he also likes a couple of other schools that are already in the SEC. Regardless, Barry is in Mississippi, you're on the air. Hey, Barry. Hi, Paul. This is my second time. Kyle, and I've got a response. To CJ, he made the comment last Friday when y'all said Oxford that LSU is going to be the old miss as usual. I want to know what happened to them tigers from man. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they were trying to say that it was just a ploy for a recruiting tactic to get arts contouring. Eli, he's been a phenomenal about when he played at OMS and as a pro with New York that he had two Super Bowl championships and two games. He went through what is LSU had a quarterback. I can answer that for CJ. No quarterback familiar. She was ever award a Super Bowl. I think there's been 5 is one. The three of them was from Alabama. I think Bart Starr and stabler and Joe naima and then you had Eli from my old meetings and Peyton from Tennessee, the only 5 SEC quarterbacks to ever win a Super Bowl if I'm not mistaken. Well, I don't know if you are or not. I've never really thought about it, but thanks for the call. Greg sankey, the commissioner of the SEC will join us in about 20 minutes. We're coming right back. You are listening to the Paul finebaum show podcast. The only.
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"steve spurrier" Discussed on The Paul Finebaum Show
"But I wanted to talk to you about the Georgia Florida game. Sure. I was thinking about it. I think that I think Georgia, I mean, Florida and auburn are very similar. They have good bunch of athletes scattered all over. They have an both quarterbacks, actually. But I think arbor is a little better coached over the whole team. They're more solid team. So my prediction is going to be that Florida probably loses 31 13. And that's my prediction for it and I think that it's going to be a good game. I think it's going to be typical aubergine was just going to be close for the first quarter. Second quarter, there will be a score or two by the one. But I think third and fourth quarter when Georgia starts cranking up that running game, they can put that game away. But I think it'll be fairly 13, something like that. Well, thank you for the call. We thank all of you. Don't forget a reminder 35 minutes from now. The commissioner of the southeastern conference Greg sankey will join us. We're taking a break. You are listening to the Paul finebaum show podcast. Welcome back. Larry is up next. Hello, Larry. Hi, Paul, what's up, man? We're doing well. Hey, no football. That's a shame. I know about it now. No, none. No games. But no, man, I heard that called for one break, and they just don't want to call it. I always got up my skin, and he was a lot flying about the offensive coordinator and we won, you know, last one, but these changed man. I ain't gonna roll over for Bella. Nice, some gossip damn good players, Jack. And this guy needs to wake up, smell at roses. He ought to be people that go in there. You know, why? Hey. What? Larry, you know, you don't think.
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"Great to have all of you with us. And yeah, how do you follow Steve spurrier, the legend with a legend? Good afternoon. For the following legend with the legend, but that's pretty unique right there, brother. That's pretty unique. Paul, how you doing, man? We are doing great. What about you? I'm good, man. I'm good. I'm living, you know, I'm for every day. No one expected me to make it this far. I would die. Yeah. Hey, Paul. I'm gonna give you two reasons why Georgia ought to be concerned with Florida, okay? Okay. Number one, the Alabama game. The week before the Alabama game, the national championship trophy was already on the way to Tesla. We don't clear it out of place in the museum, because we don't have a trophy case because we got so many championships. We had to build a museum. So we don't clear it out of place in the corner. You had already sent us the trophy. You're not already. I'm nailed it after the Miami game. Yes, you did. I remember it. I remember going away. Let's look for you to ask them. But guess what happened after the Florida game? We put brooms back at that corner. The Chelsea wasn't on the way to test closer. After the Florida Gary Paul, and I'm gonna tell you another reason Dan Mullen and a one game situation is as good as any coach in America Paul. Now, over a season, forget about it. 8 9, ten wins and the case on top ten ranking is what you go and get Florida. But and I want James situation Paul. There are lawless and Paul from stuff out of his butt that no other culture pull out ball. I've seen it firsthand. I'll say it at first hand. So I'll say this. If Georgia beats Florida, by 20 or more, Alabama's got something to be concerned with. But I think the Florida Gators just Georgia everything they want on Saturday. Remember soldier. Remember I told you. And I thought you said something earlier in the show, man, it just blew me away. It was kind of revolutionary. You basically said in sports, if you have to ask for respect, nobody respects you. Basically what I heard. Yeah, yeah. It's something that happens all the time. And I think I've been guilty of it. You say, well, why don't I get more respect? You know, but ultimately, if you bring that up, you're already you've already lost a little respect that don't have to ask for it, Paul. I mean, you respect it, dude. I mean, across the bowl, you don't have to ask for respect. I mean, you got a lot of haters, but that cause of being in the land lights. You know what I'm saying? But I'm gonna tell you who I respect it and football. You Kentucky, you. Come on, great year, but we both know the only thing I know you ever going to raise will be a rump arena. Come on. And as long as Alabama's got shackleford, 90% a rhetoric coming back, guess what? You ain't hanging in one this year. And Paula, it's amazing me, the tide has done in basketball. What Kentucky will never do and then football, brother. And that is what he's a banner, man. I mean, I'm loving the coach down there. But let's get back to football augmented and respect. I'll tell you who else I respect it. You Texas a and L you respect it. I mean, come on. One way I guess Alabama, every 8 years and it's only my second national title. I'm not telling you when you get respect. When you start being achieved that you're supposed to be brother and you ain't being those teams, the year you read Alabama with man sale, guess what? You lost games. You should have won. And guess what happened this year? You lost games that you should have won. Because you're not an elite big dog at the end of the day. You're not respected a and M and I tell you who else I don't respect Paul, you may respecting the problem hairline and all of them is a complete moron in my opinion. Every time I go speaks Paul, my skin crawls, that dude is just weird. He's a whack though. I mean, he's like a neighborhood watch guy a spine and folks with. I don't like this guy. He has a brilliant weirdo. Hey, and before I get off, you said something the other day and Alabama thing told you and you piece success that Alabama would go 12 and one and wearing a national championship. And you kind of suggest that the ham that he might have been drinking are the captured. How many did you really thank Paul that Alabama can't beat Georgia? Well, of course, I think Alabama can be Georgia. Right, come on. That's my pal three. I'm sorry I'm sorry, right there. Ladies and gentlemen, free that turns down and I'll tell you why at the end of the day, Georgia will not trace anyone like Alabama. They won't face too wide receivers that'll be first round draft picks in the next NFL Draft. They won't face a wheel Anderson. They won't face up Bryce young, and they will play a daddy. Next saving who asks, Georgia beaten Alabama, it's almost became like Kentucky beaten Florida a couple years ago. Thank you all with that psychological burial, Paul. They might be a big dog. But the bipolar crazy mad elephant in the room is still the Alabama crimson tide. You never think we're scared of them. And no, never think we can't beat them. Because we can, David, lower your power, legend. Thank you, legend. Appreciate it very much. Let me check in with Tony up next. Hey, Tony, go right ahead. Well, good afternoon, Paul, and I sure love to follow a legend because he is so generous to Georgia and the love between the Alabama people and the Alban people is touching..
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"steve spurrier" Discussed on The Paul Finebaum Show
"Podcast. Welcome all of you back in his journal fun show. Sam Pittman joined us about 90 minutes ago, the Arkansas head coach during their bio week. We had Lawrence Smith on legendary sideline reporters for the dogs. We are one hour away from a conversation with Greg sankey, the commissioner of the southeastern conference. We have not had a chance to catch up with the commissioner in a few weeks and we'll get to latest on all of the pressing issues in the SEC. We're also heading to Jacksonville in two days where the whole world it seems will convene for Florida, Georgia. And joining us, somebody knows a lot about that is the legendary Hall of Fame coach Steve spurrier. Coach it's always good to see you. How are you? All good to talk with you again. Yeah, we thought all summer that this far to Georgia game would be for the eastern division, but now it's just a good rivalry game. And hopefully our guys are ready for a good one. Coach before we get to on the field, it's a big issue this year, and I know that Jacksonville just agreed to continue with the game. But the Georgia fans have one view of this game in Jacksonville, you're a gator, you obviously have a different view. Where do you think this game ought to be long-term? Our skaters are happy. It's in Jacksonville now that I can tell you back in the 70s and 80s, the bulldogs were happy. The game was in Jacksonville because back in 90 when I was hard, some of the university of Florida sort of big people said we can't beat Georgia and Jacksonville. We need to go home and home. And I said, well, let's try to see if we beat him in Jacksonville before we do that. So then we had a lot better teams than they did in the early 90s. So we enjoy playing in Jacksonville, but they certainly won their share, maybe more than we have with the game in Jacksonville. Coach, when we saw you last, which was on the eve of the Alabama game, there was an optimism and you certainly you felt you could feel it. And that game was pretty pretty amazing. But since then, the Gators have sputtered and I'm really curious your analysis of what is going wrong. Well, we don't tackle very well. I think everyone knows that the LSU game was I don't know how that happened, Kentucky, we just had a bad night and they played well and walked to field go and got a touchdown out of that. So, you know, we just went ahead and played well enough to win we've lost a couple close games and then of course the Alabama game. But there's still, you know, a lot of season left. So hopefully our gas can turn it around and beat George and you know, Georgia is ruined many a great gator season. I know I was there way back in 66 when we went to the game undefeated and they knocked us out of the SEC and possibly even a national or whatever. So hopefully we can not get out of something this year. The quarterback situation is on the fans minds. Every time I talk to somebody from Florida, they're always pushing one quarterback over the other. You understand that position better than anyone, how do you evaluate where Dan Mullen is right now with the QB situation? Yeah, he likes to play both of them right now. And you'd think at some point, one would definitely play better than the other. And then he would be the guy in a way we go. But I'm not sure what's going to happen. You know, 1 may play the majority of it, or they may go back and forth. I'm not sure. Back when I was coaching, I wasn't afraid to pull a quarterback if he was struggling and usually the second gap played pretty well. Then if he'd go bad a little bit, the other guy would come back, but which I had to normally as long as they play well, they stayed in there and not just one mistake would get them out, but if they had three or four mistakes in a row, then obviously that next guy, you give him the chance. But I'm not sure what's going to happen. Coach speaking of pulling quarterbacks, when this season began, the two leading favorites for the Heisman Trophy were from Oklahoma and Clemson. And neither one of them is anywhere to be found. One's not even playing anymore. The other one, DJ at Clemson, we don't know where that is going to land. In all the years you've watched college football have you ever seen anything quite like what we're seeing this year? Yeah, there's interesting teams that you don't think are going to be very good. Right up there, especially like Michigan state, and even Michigan, you're undefeated right now. Wake forest. I admire white force. There are ACC. They're a little bit like duke. I guess that's what I love them so much pretty much the academic school, but there are 7 and they score 70 points last week. I think they had ten possessions. It's for testing on every possession. So that's what's called perfect offense by the demon dinkins. Coax Carson, I really know what they do there. So the transfer of portal, you can get a lot of good players. You know some guys aren't starting at Ohio State or Georgia or some of those big schools. I say, come on pal, you can start for us. So it's not just recruiting now and wait till three years. You got to get into that portal and try to find you some good ball players. Do you think we do and I don't know if it's the media or Vegas or somebody's fall, but I mean, we're the ones that create the reputations and they just it's hard to live up. Do you think you played that position you coached it? You've had some great ones. You think the pressure gets to some of these guys or there's just the next guy is so good and the coach does not want to lose him. Yeah, sometimes sometimes quarterbacks and then sort of go bad a little bit and then you have noticed I've had it happen to me. You put them on the bench for a game or two, and then when they come back, they're better player. Rex Grossman and Jesse Palmer really rotated in a 2000 season where we won the SEC, Jesse played in four of the wins and Rex played for the wins. So it went back and forth like that. But yeah, yeah, I've seen quarterbacks that were really, really good, then the next year, something happened to him, so I don't know how it happens, but it can't happen. Coach, within the SEC, I know we were talking about Florida, a minute ago. You've watched Georgia, I know. You keep up with the SEC very closely. How would you describe this Georgia bulldog team? Big strong, powerful team. It obviously can play defense. And a lot of people don't realize those teams we had back in the 90s was scored a lot of points, but we had great defensive players and that they were probably the biggest reason we won all those SECs back in the 90s, because they get the other team off the field quickly. I think the first time we played George, they punted like 11 or 12 times in that game. That's how good our defense was. And George is right there with that. So George offense, they don't have to be fantastic. They just have to be solid. And they are a good offense. It can run it, and they can hit some long passes. They don't need to throw over 20, 25 passes a game. And that's a good way to win football games as we all know. And Georgia, that's their style. And they're going to be tough to be. I know you got a good look at Alabama, a couple weeks ago in Gainesville and I'm sure you've seen them since coach. A lot of people are speculating about what's wrong and with Nick Saban's team. I mean, there's still in the top four in the country, but where do you think they are lacking right now? Well, you know they won. They won all the games last year in their defense, wasn't all that pretty last year at times. And their defense and all that pretty right now, I heard one Alabama said the other day that this year's Georgia team looked like a bunch of former Alabama teams. I love you to that..
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"steve spurrier" Discussed on The Paul Finebaum Show
"Podcast. We are back. Oh what an afternoon it's been in. Gainesville had some memorable programs already. We started in atlanta and last week of course in fayetteville today gains ville and chris during will join us in a couple of minutes. More of your phone calls right now. Joe from red bay alabama. Hello joe impels bomb. Joa down here. These gator fans would love you. Well you know. I've been looking at them. Pollen they use like a bunch of go foot lincoln lizard. And it's good to see you got some alabama fan at penalty showed up. Yeah we don't get where alabama fans wouldn't president but nobody's wore about it. I'd break our hearts but right now all their jeering bullard just play. You don't be too bad alabel. I mean that's the only thing thing cheerful. This game is not going to be closed. And it's not it ain't going to be close and i'll tell you wanting another thing up and happy valley. It's hatred for penn state tomorrow night over. You know nobody words by border. But i bet where you're at right now. All you need to turn around the bamboo plans. Hey i love you. Thank you for showed up and you just go to a couple. I just talked to a couple from huntsville alabama. So yeah. I've seen a few bama fans joe. Thanks for the call. Chris during joining us from studio to chris doering. He played at the university of alabama florida. Excuse me chris. Welcome to the program. Chris play course for coach. Steve spurrier cemented ago. Chris you should be down here man. I know you live here. But just i just left it right when you were coming in the past in air man. It's good to have you. It's talking about this game. Not that you haven't done that already this week. but Let's let's get your assessment of what is florida's route for an upset. Well i think. First and foremost is starts with florida's defense. You've gotta be able to slow down alabama as we'll talk about tonight on sec. Now i thought miami made alabama's offense looked better than they were. Actually were i. I still believe there's gonna be some learning curve for brash. Young taking over at the quarterback spot for all the weapons around him trying to replace all the production from last year but You got to be able to force some turnovers. Not make it as easy as miami made it. Look secondly you've got gotta be able to score with alabama you go back and look last year. The two teams that gave them the biggest tea hard was a florida and ole miss and they had the ability to hold serve offensively. So you can't waste possessions. You can't get down to the red zone and settled for field goals. You gotta be able to score touchdowns. But i really believe that. This is going to be the most hyped atmosphere in the swamp for a long time. I know bama's played in front of french Places like this for a bunch of crowds. That are going crazy. But i think this is the most anticipated game in gainesville and about twenty years. You know. that's such an amazing comment there. And i've heard other people talk about a former People that have written here people broadcasters from your and you and i think that chris i'll state the obvious florida has two national championships in that period. So why why is this. So unique was the fact. That florida was one hundred team all those years. And now it's it's reversed on alabama. Yeah i think there's a little bit of that. I think there's also the situation where you have the defending national champion coming to town. The number one team in the country who has the greatest coach in the history of college football on the other side line. And oh by the way you never get the c. alabama in gainesville. So for all those reasons. I think this is the most hot ticket that we've seen in the swamp and a long time and i know my daughter's a sophomore at the university of florida. The students are going to be out there early. They're gonna be loud and it's going to be the old swamp atmosphere that we used to have back in the ninety s. When i was there. Yeah i mean already. Today i mean the enthusiasm for this game is is Closing in on defcon. One chris during joining us Chris we talked to coach sprayer about it and in everyone tries to describe the swab. You played here. You were an all american. One of the great players in in the schools history. What i mean. I know you. They were behind you. But what makes it so unique for those alabama.
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"steve spurrier" Discussed on The Paul Finebaum Show
"Everything connects quickly and easily over wifi visit. Sonos dot com to learn more. We had this conversation last week. Not to belabor the point where it was on nine eleven last saturday and i made the argument again. You can't undo history but if if games had been played that day You you obviously would have one day and we're really had a i mean it was almost every They had a couple of defensive guys heard writing travis. Stevens ran for two hundred and twenty five yards against us that night in the swamp and we had a two point. Play that we didn't hit When our chances we had to kick a bunch of little field goals and we didn't we didn't play our best in tennessee. Betas give him credit and then. Lsu beat him for the sec week later right. Yeah talking to coach steve spurrier. I want to ask you about south carolina. For second because y- the gamecocks have tried to come back a lot since you left and fans down. There are are pretty upbeat about shane. Beamer he was your guy during your incredible run their what. What are your thoughts on. Shane's brought a lot of enthusiasm. Saying all the right things Seems like the players all love each other which is something you got to have gone. He's got to have some real strong recruiting classes or strong portal classes. You have recruiting then you have the portal to get your nowadays so you can. You can get very good quickly. We've been talking about that how it's leveled the talent a lot. Because if a gas non starter he goes into the portal goes where somewhere and becomes a starter so can south carolina. Hey get a bunch of guys that can really play here in next year too so that that's part of it also what about georgia because I know jt daniels was hurt Last week and and play clemson. You're just trying to win the game. You're not trying to be do anything other than that. But how would you describe the of this offense. So far through two weeks or stats bennett. what heathrow four five touchdowns last week so he looked pretty doggone good and I don't know who they'll play tomorrow. but Been then it's a pretty good player if jt daniels came play but their defense so good so that that would carry A long way i would guess. Let me let me circle back before you go about about this game tomorrow. And in terms of alabama. We've seen wrongs you you. You're part of a run here that that none of us Really had seen before. You had one in south carolina but this has been been percolating for a long time. I'm curious nick. Sabin turned seventy years old in four weeks. What where is this program right now and just things that you've been a part of florida and have seen in college football alabama just from. Yeah we haven't seen many runs late now. I think nick sabin can go five or more years. Because he's in good health. He loves coaching. That's what he wants to do. And i mean he told me one time it said what else would i do. I'm not coaching. And i love what i'm doing. He's in good health and I mean as long as they recruit and win all the tampa. Coaching is fun. But if you ever lose his three games. I said if you ever lose three games in a season you you start thinking what am i doing. And he said yeah if we ever lose three and a year. I'd be in trouble a little bit. But now i think he's got a lot more years don't you so you don't really think you competed against bobby. Bowden you know he he. He he coached paternal. These guys coach you know seventies into the you don't think it's the actual number that that okay now i don't so when when you lose a couple of games how is it different at seventy at fifty or sixty leaders. Say you're sorta at the end of the line if your team's not very good okay and do you want to stay there and try to fight it out and bring them back And certainly. I didn't wanna do that. South carolina i. I was finished in south carolina. When i left but then i coast nice spring football leeann which was a lot of fun because yeah three month job through four months. Your team guess those gas. Let's go try to beat them so the coaching part doesn't matter how all the extra part with it. Yeah but but nick does a good job. He's got tremendous support staff around him and so forth and he he loves all of it. So i i really think he's got a lot more years really did then is it is so interesting to hear because there are many people. Ask the question to but because you've experienced it And and i mean we. All fixate on age. It's just part of part of life but you could see him going seventy five or rebel. Yeah yeah yeah. He know he's he's not a figurehead over there either. He's yelling and screaming at. Everybody knows what's going on Some of the older coaches. You know we're more figure head coaches and so forth but yeah he's in the game. He's in the game and makes a lot of decision so that's what he loves doing. And he's good at it obviously pretty good at it. That comes from one of the greatest coaches. I've ever seen so i i would say by the way i we. We talked to you last time. I know you're you're you're an entrepreneur. Now you got you got restaurant. And i told this is not a figure that restaurant either show up. Show up a little bit People where people go to a restaurant app. That has your name. They wanna see you. Don't they well. they know. I'm not going to be a every night by going for you. Know twenty thirty minutes and take few pictures. I'm a lot better. Pictures and autograph pitchers only. Now come on. Let's go so Yeah i enjoyed over there and we got good people to a lot of fun. We got a whole bunch of former players. Come in occasionally chris during danny warfare going to be here next week so Really looking forward to next week. Paul we got our ninety five and ninety six teams coming back for a reunion And you know the ninety five and ninety sixteen both went nine in. Sec play back to back. Conference champs won the national one got beating the national so those those are two of the best teams in school history and really looking forward to seeing those gas next week when you're old school. Tennessee comes in. Yeah i i. I would say you've had some amazing accomplishments but but i still think peyton manning.
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"steve spurrier" Discussed on The Paul Finebaum Show
"And we are back and Glad you are with us here on a busy busy afternoon. Logan is up next. Hey logan abe all going. Today we are doing great thank you. Let's put. i'm sorry. I missed the old ball coach. I heard that was a good interview. I'm surprised he took time off golf course to get with you today. But i'm glad not to go back to the podcast where he wanted to plug his new restaurant. That was the overriding reason So that makes sense okay. I get it now I was just going away in a couple of days ago. You had a guest on talking about meteorites. cf pay and i had an opinion on nat He said it would be bad for a college football if one network got all of the The sec and the cit. I disagree hardly with that because number one. Look at the competition to usps abc ito. You know how i feel about cbs. I mean they are ridiculous. It's almost unwatchable. I listen to you go. i'm you sound And fox is is unwatchable. I mean they got much of washed-up players from what notre dame and usc. I'm surprised they don't have to read on their. he might actually be an analyst or no but I think it'd be better if we kept it all one network and i really don't like idea that going somewhere like amazon. Some i don't wanna have to subscribe to something else to get the playoffs. So i know that you know a lot of people. Say what's monopoly. It's bad for business. But i would rather keep it with the you know the network that knows how to do it the best. Espn abc right now. Yeah having i think this anti espn rhetoric will will calm down. It's always easy. Just to blame the biggest and the baddest and i i think would pay people fail to realize is what. Espn has done and continues to do for college football. I mean they're not getting it for free and by the way it's not like that's the only thing espn does espn does monday night. Football in in in in in. Nfl they do baseball do basketball. I mean they do everything to But they just happened to do college football better. There's a tremendous investment. And i'm not here to be a television critic and fox has some talented people but their commitment to college. Football doesn't compare and they can kick cream. all they want and feldman was on earlier and i. It's not like espn just came in and stole the sec deal that they paid a fortune for it. Exactly i mean everybody was cbo. Let's quit criticizing. Espn cbs is the one that That that balked. And i don't wanna get into that because there's a lot of reasons why why the sec moved on from cbs. They're well known at cbs. Hey thanks for the call. Joe is up next in texas Hello joe go right ahead how are you. We are great. Thank you for calling you bet. grew up in oklahoma lifelong sooner fan. And now live in tyler. Texas homework girl campbell. You bet i'll tell you. I'm gonna tell you something paul. The fan base. The fans were so excited. Being in the sec. I'm i'm gonna tell you that from a life. Long of sixty nine grew up in a pan sooner. Fan of texas kinda rough but We get by. And i wanna i wanna bring up something but being tipping point with. Oh you I think this is kind of being a little bit. And it really highlighted the tipping point for. Ou was snubbed by fox not putting the nebraska gang on prime time It was the first year celebration gain century so to speak absolutely joe cast castiglione had worked higher shortly trying to get that game on in prime time i know. Nebraska doesn't have much much of a team right now but still just the pomp and circumstance of the game the history of the game so for when he didn't get the he didn't give fox to move that game and he went to bowl. Spey both be told him. Well that's the contract. We signed. And i laugh point when i read that joe see is very cool customer. You don't wanna take him off. And i think that was a real tipping point You know joe. I agree with you i. I don't know a joe castiglione well but people that that do will argue that. He's as good of athletic. Director is in college athletics and and that was foolish fox. I don't know what i don't know. What their prime can't time game is that day. I could look it up in a second but it doesn't matter If you're if you understand anything about college football and obviously the people that run fox missed this Notation that is one of the biggest games in the history of the sport and it may not be competitive but cares well and the other thank call is. They have been put. Oh you at eleven o'clock for their crime gang slot texas anybody else play because that box lot fettes time slot 'cause it was the first in the morning shirt and you know that's no. That's no way to treat people tailgating for trying to get the the economy going there norman I can't guarantee you. You don't see many alabama games at eleven o'clock you sure don't and that's why you really think. They had been snubbed all these years with box and they saw the. Hey the opportunity. Is there especially. But i think that kick point again which eleven am nebraska mentioned. That does because not all the critics out there to Just blame sankey and blame. Espn and honest conversations. Espn here And i do think are part of all this. But i heard joe say that the other day i heard the president of oklahoma say that and i think there's a lot to that i think i think there is now there was probably dialogue before that sure but i'm thinking that man back was the tipping point. Joe made him furious and he said okay. Texas if you talk to the fcc. We're we're ready to go whenever you are now talking about them a little bit. We are fourteen against texas in two thousand when they beat us is because they bring your a game and we're reading are fresh clippings and they physicality get physical with us. They just in the mouth early to run by the way fox also has the organ ohio state game early. I mean they're just anyway well another hour ago..
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"steve spurrier" Discussed on The Paul Finebaum Show
"This coming season stare. And i was looking at the schedule this season. I know they play in in the season and a big game. I think that will ultimately determine if this even as realistic as lt comes to lexington. October in kentucky very brutal stretch in october. They play florida in lexington then. Lsu than there in athens but Thank you for the time paul. Thank you richard Having said that. I do expect kentucky to have a very good year but i think expecting them to win the west. I think more realistically t to vishwa florida for that. For the number two spot Thank you for the call. Appreciate it very very much. Let's check in with max who is in atlanta him. Act go right ahead. formerly of memphis wonderful followed you at christian brothers so and i have an idea for the big twelve in the pack. Twelve that will make them relevant. I can't fix them. They're not fixable and acc could be a player in this as well so does hear me. Now turn their conference championship games or meaning us especially the pac twelve. I'll be watching the hall of fame game. Tonight i watch. Espn football on tuesday nights. I can't watch the pack twelve championship the product so bad. So here's what they did. They cancelled their conference championships. And they say we're gonna take the conference champion of the pack twelve versus the comp conference championship the big twelve and that would a meaningful football game. That's actually a very good idea. Well it august two christian brothers call. That's why you're so successful. Stole remember brother adrien. Hey thank you Appreciate the call. We'll take a break more to come. That's a pretty good idea. We'll happen because of the tv contracts. But those those do conferences need to do anything to remain relevant. And i don't. I don't see their path but we'll take a break heather dinner on that subject and more in the final hour. If you just got on board. You miss steve spurrier. He was dropping bombs. So we'll take a break. Listening to paul finebaum show podcast..
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"steve spurrier" Discussed on The Paul Finebaum Show
"It really will Maybe winning a division would be almost similar to winning a conference championship in the future I still know how exactly they're gonna have the conference championship but You would think that would be sort of the way to do it And then of course the football playoff there could be four or five teams that could get into the final twelve if that's what occurs so You know i always used to think man the objects that when you're a conference championship and was sixteen powerful teams that i don't know what the object you'd feel loved to win your conference championship. There's gotta be some other goes in there because only one of the sixteen is going to be the champion so It's it's a little bit different than what we used to do. In in terms of playing nine conference games I'm curious that's seemingly where we're going here do you. i mean i may be out of necessity. But how how does that change the calculus For for everyone in the sec. Especially i mean you were south carolina. You had great successor with top ten finishes for a number of years but but south carolina's on different plane right now so are other schools. You conference game that. That's not exactly a bargain. If you're trying to move on up yes exactly right. People's records are not going to be very good. I remember pepper rodgers. Used to always say coats is about as good as his players had his schedule. And now everybody's gonna have a lot more difficult schedule whereas in the old days I remember one year I just happened to look at texas. A m's Four out of conference games and they they weren't any big schools whatsoever and then you know here. We weren't playing. Fsu and some of these people and then south carolina playing clemson and all of that so scheduling does have a lot to do with your record. And some of these sec's schools. Don't have very good records. So i guess they. They got anticipate as far as the end of the the end of the season games. Which you know i it. A lot of these games are in jeopardy Do you think the gator should continue playing. Fsu year yeah. I think so. I think the fans won't it just like clemson south carolina so And that's why we're sorta surprised way back when texas and texas saying quit playing each other just because Jumped over our conference but Yeah those games are important. I think but Again we'll we'll have to wait and see how plays out. I guess we'll coach. It is always great to have you on cannot wait to hear more about the restaurant and you continue to be well and we will see you very soon. I hope okay. Thanks paul always good to talk to you. You gotta coach spurrier dropping some knowledge on on texas saying if you're going to struggle in the big twelve might as well struggle in the sec. I think he said they can't do any worse. coach always making friends in In new places. We'll take a break more to come more of your phone calls at eight five five to four to seven to eight five and we are back after this. You're listening to the paul. Finebaum show podcast. Sonos is the official.
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"steve spurrier" Discussed on The Paul Finebaum Show
"We welcome back. It's great to have all of your hair for the second half of the show with with more about The cfp with heather dench in an hour right now. Steve spurrier joins us about to open up a restaurant. And i cannot wait to get down there to that We wanna talk coach about everything else as well coach per your good afternoon. How are you. Hey paul good to be wiki again. It's been awhile before we even get all the heavy heavy lifting stuff. What's going on with your your restaurant. I here it's about to open. Yeah we're officially opening august eleven. We've already had a lot of events there The gators have had some recruiting dinners with recruits and parents. And all that there So we've been busy about officially we're gonna start charging people on august eleven. So i told are sort of general manager. Said everybody's having big time here while it's free hope when they gotta pay hope you'll have just as bigger towns so anyway yeah. We're looking forward to the restaurant opening. it's right off. I seventy five on archer road here easy to get to a big shopping center Probably the busiest one in gainesville so There's a lot going on out there and So far we believe the reception has been very good. Why can't we get together. Well coach tell me I'm pretty familiar with your coaching. Watched you thrown all of it. How how do you go about running a restaurant well. i don't. it's not me. I got into this. My daughter amy about two or three years ago. She said dad. You need a you need to put all this stuff somewhere instead of in the closet at your house and Anyway i said that to a local sorta entrepreneur who has a company called make. It happen again getting ready. Levy and He got together with some guys that Our developers out of the shopping center call celebration points so that the building was there and ready to be renovated so we got some investors away. We went and that was about two and a half years ago. So it's been a pretty long process and of course hiring people has been probably the most difficult part but we got enough right now to open at least five days a week and if we get some more employees obviously say we could open every day but it's It's been received pretty well best far and Yeah hopefully we can really get this thing going danny waffle. Gave me his heisman trophy. So it's We've got a museum trophy case. We call her museum Bunch of players chris. Doering and jed davis are kicker we got a whole bunch of gator trophies in their even got some duke buddies to give us some of their trophies so we got a nice football museum people to look at also. What's the go to When you go when you when you recommend it their people when they when they go in there. What's the go-to order. All the food is excellent We've got a chef chef mark That's what you call shifts by the way chef. Mark sorta like coach steve and coach bill. This found that out but he is really get and The thing is actually tasty seafood. the stakes were were excellent Just really everything is Well prepared and and very tasty. Well i cannot wait. And of course gotta good service paul in any restaurant Our employees they gotta be like a team we all got love each other and get along and we think we got a bunch of sharp Fairly young people Doing the serving and so forth the cooks and all that so You gotta have a good team. They're also as you know. I wanna see thrown advisors. If everything doesn't go well well that's gonna be the name of the rooftop lounge sponsors rooftop so we got an open air place up top. That will usually opened up about four o'clock in the afternoon and We got a bunch of is irs. There's you know. I've been fortunate to play a lot of golf on some of the really good golf courses all over the country as well as ireland and scotland and i i would collect a visor everywhere. I went so i have quite a collection. And we're gonna have that in the entryway at the visor rooftop lounge. We will continue to follow the progress and when we make our trips through the fall. We'll try to definitely come by. Can't wait yeah. We'll get you down there when game day or somebody comes through. Okay so let let me let me get to the news We've been talking about here for two weeks coach. And and i know that you've been watching this closely. Your your reaction to where the sec is going now with oklahoma and texas. I tell you the truth. Paul when all that came out during. Sec media day. I thought somebody was just starting to rumor to mess with. Sec to those coaches up there talking about some more too but it was a true so obviously the rumor. And i did come out and when it was the truth The first thing i thought was well texas. They struggle to win the big twelve. I guess they've only won it twice. And i don't know how many years so it makes sense for them. If you're going to struggle in the big twelve months or struggle initially. She can't do any worse now. oklahoma. I think they've won that five or six years in a row twelve like that. Josh started wonder. Wait a minute why would they give up a championship every year to jump over into the sec and after talking would some oklahoma people that they paid a looking forward to the challenge ball. They really do as well oklahoma. A rich football tradition university and their fans they will lsu in alabama and over. They want those guys to come to their ballpark. And they're ready to go to their ballpark I know they've Oklahoma's beat alabama in the sugar bowl. They beat alligators this year out. No we didn't have few guys playing but you can't blame oklahoma for that. They get up when they play. Scc and they're they're looking forward to it. Saw i think Winning big twelve championships at oklahoma. Maybe he's gotten a little bit old. It's hard to imagine But they're looking for a new challenge. And i think i think it's really going to be interesting. I think they're gonna compete They all compete for championships in sec. So it'll be fun to watch coach. I'm particularly interested in your thoughts on on what happens. And i think we're we're not gonna we're gonna see things. Change probably be nine conference games and three permanent rivals. But still when you add a school like oklahoma and and ultimately texas has to get better it does. Do you think it's going make it more difficult for everyone in the middle to the to the bottom tier of the sec. To move up yeah. It'll be more deaths go..
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DawgNation's Mike Griffith Makes Wild Accusations About the Potential of Georgia Football
"Going to read you a comment. That danny sheridan gave to us. I think it was about a week ago. Danny was picking the final four and he georgia to go to the final four this coming season and he said i would say the fourteen would be. George think georgia is loaded in. Georgia does not win this year. They are not going to win for a long time. And by that i mean. Get to the final four. Do you think this is the season as georgia is. Getting playoff are bus for kirby smart and his team. Yeah i've heard that the last few years in kirby keeps finding players in georgia keep finding ways to contend being a contender and actually doing. It are two different things. But what georgia's john paul. As they've stayed in the conversation or as curry says you gotta keep getting those at bats and when he finished in the top ten. Four straight years as georgia's don you recruit as well as kirby has you give yourself a chance and georgia's become known as a place that quarterbacks like to come now. The results have not always blossomed. Is much as people would like but you look at this roster now and jt daniels. Looks like one of the best quarterbacks in the country coming back. He's a former five-star they signed broadband. A grip he was a five star. Wants committed oklahoma. Now they've got gunner stockton committed a twenty twenty two five star. I mean my goodness talent is everywhere and now it's just a matter georgia finishing the job on football field. Which brings me one more comment and we don't we. Don't go out looking at other shows to bring you information. We take it from our own program. And i believe those two weeks ago booger mcfarland. We all know boogers credentials. He said this on on our show he said if you are a bulldog fan and you're going to sit there and stare honestly in the eye kirby has done less with more than maybe even mark. Rick how would you respond to that. Wow i guess. I'd say first of all you've got to get more right. You've got to have those recruiting classes in the top two or three. That's a good problem to apple and as far as doing more with less they're less with pernille they're getting ready. You can't if you can't finish the job though mike. That's i mean you're you're you're you're you're playing right in to what these guys are saying georgia out recruit anyone would maybe the exception of alabama But when are they going to finish the job. That's the question that georgia fans are asking. Yeah it's it's been tough when you win the sec. Three years in a row. And you lose to alabama in the sec championship. Game and twenty eight teeny get left out of the playoff for you. Come within one play of winning the national title twenty seventeen. I mean. i can't answer those questions for you. Know it's funny. You had ryan mcgee up there a few minutes ago talking about the late. Great dale earnhardt. He didn't win the daytona five hundred until his twentieth attempt. So those big game. Victories can be kind of a lucid. And i think that's happened for george. Remember paul kirby smart is only forty five years old. This is only year six for him. You look at how long it took guys. Like steve spurrier and nick sabin and they were six seven years into their careers before they got their national titles.
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Lou Holtz talks Notre Dame and more
"Lua alluded to you as being a builder and again i go back to the interview which you had here in the studio with us and the obvious question from a person when you They asked you about the rumors you going to. Usc and you said usc is one of the three best jobs. And i said wait a minute. I know notre dame is one of the best. What's the third best job. And you said the one that i get and it turned out to be usc but the university of south carolina. And and i'm just wondering when you reflect back about taking over that program. Why did you take over such a struggling program. And what is it is allowed. Lou holtz everywhere. He has gone to be able to build success. What i foresee a we will not arrive. I think we had three offensive linemen on scholarship is all we had. It did have a quarterback and didn't have a running back to his per se. But you know you grin there you you just you try to fundamental you. Try to do the things that we talked about. Just you know. Build build the football team. And i have gone to six different situations in college and never inherited a winner and went to bow game no later in the second year with matter of fact after going on eleven we finished seventeenth a country next year and beat ohio state in a bowl game following here i think we finished loveth in the country. Beat state again on january one. But it's not because guy it's Coach it's all about the people. If team i mean it's about coaches and players. All all really tried to play their road and believe that you can do something. We read great fan support in south carolina. We were below eligible this year. We'd basically accepted a bowl bid and then of course after a little probably had with trump said in my last football game we decided not to go to a bowl game. I would've liked to vendor micro in a bowl game and yet at the same time within hayes and i'll have the same legacy Last was in clemson was involved. Refer also that's not a great legacy to have necessarily but it's a good football team. Many people coming back in. Like steve spurrier command. And you know he. He's a guy that likes to win. And i think he can win earlier. I believe that in the bud by heart. I think he's an excellent coach. I think the players will respond well to them. And i think we took a the longest losing program the country and took it to a bowl game and he'll take it from there to the championship level when you talk about coaching today And i think about francs being fired after he won nine games and i think about the expectations that go along ty willingham of course sopa but notre dame in his first year wins his first eight and then what has happened to him recently as well. What are the expectations of football coach at a major program today. Well i've been figured that basically very very impatient but you know they. They want instant success. One instant gratification and want to go the top. That the trina goes to the university of louisville inherits a very very good football team. From coach smith went onto michigan state. Now goes between things that a tremendous job but You know feel air. And he has those great athletes. They have great success. Urban meyer. who. I hired at university of notre dame you know he goes to Utah has instant success and everybody sitting there saying well. Hey he can do it let. Let's go get that guy that can do it here that we can win immediately will You know having code having smith there your quarterback as a pretty good asset to have it set about where somebody also had success. And i am sure they they look at it and say well gee they came in and they were down and all of a sudden they one. That's what we want to do and everybody all the fans wanted to two things who's going to be the new coach and he will be the next quarterback i. It's unbelievable i. i don't care you. You want to become unpopular to hurry. Go for being the second team quarterback to the i team the anything too is if you think about it and i was thinking about notre dame just the other day what should be their expectation level and i know the obvious as well to win championships but if you look at the landscape of football today lou there's a lot of teams that are able to get outstanding athletes that don't have the same requirements to get maybe to get into school There's a lot of schools have reputations of putting players into the pros and what have you so having said all of that. What should be the expectation at notre dame today as far as their season and their teams year in year out when further. Joyce hired may at the university of notre dame. He said. I wanna talk to you about a couple of things. Basically not negotiable. These are not negotiable university. Notre dame we are need understand. This now isn't even before i was ever offered the job at you. Know we we. We will not redshirt. We will not take transfer from junior. College will not take a transfer from another school against need search chain core curriculum classes for years of english. Three years of math through calculus at center players are going to miss practice because of late classes or or or labs or tutors or things along that line. The players are going to live on campus. We are going to have great facilities. You have nothing to do with the discipline but athlete on campus We don't pay a whole lot You're not allowed to president of the university. Notre dame was the rule when say they gave the president rates once that they could give me a raise anyone on all that and he said with the we're expecting to compete for a national championship at least once every three or four years and I didn't find anything wrong with ed. And we did the head it. I think that should be their expectations. Not necessarily this year even next year. But i do think They expect Charlie wise to compete for the national championship. And i think he will. The same things are saying about notre dame they said about whenever procedure went there years ago. They said it. When i was there i remember my first year recruiting at notre dame. My aunt had us fifty eight to sixty year before. I got there in their last football game on national television and You go into a home to recruit a young man that have all these That have all these articles in there. About how Notre dame can't win anymore and the schedules to tough. There's all this. And there's all that. And i just don't believe that i i think you know. The sec schedule's pretty tough When i was at university dame might think at fifty four percent of games ever coach there were against a top twenty five football teams. But that's part of notre dame you play the best you know. We played washington when they're really good. We played tennessee. We played texas We we we played Miami florida played. Florida state You just that's just the way you did it at notre dame and I don't think it's any different now. I might be a little bit down right now but yeah. I think it's going to be fine but lou. Isn't it a little bit different. In the sense. That i used to think of notre dame and you probably going into a home where you know it was. I want this kid. The kid's gonna sign right there. It was like with john wooden at ucla. I mean john recruiting because everybody wanted to come and play for john wooden at ucla during those particular years but now the competition it. It's almost like well. We've got a pro passing program so if you're an outstanding quarterback you're going to go to this score that school i mean isn't the the mystique oh most of notre dame and not to their own detriment or fall but isn't it a little bit perceived differently today might be but i don't think necessarily it should be. I mean on tv every saturday. One time when i said notre dame we had fifty seven players active in the nfl. The next was penn state with thirty nine and third with southern cal with thirty eight But we we had to work hard. Recruit again we. We found uphill struggle. But here's the different. We could go to california and would we went after navigate. It was us usc or ucla. When would end attack between us. Texas tech today and you went into florida as a youth. Florida state miami and florida. You went into nebraska to be between you and the university of nebraska. You could go anywhere in the country and you would have legitimate chance to recruit the best athlete in that state but you would have to use the beat. The home state and you didn't always do that but when they start talking about well. Nfl i want this type of program. Notre dame's not a four year decision. Support here decision. What do you do in your football's over guarantee you're gonna play in the nfl with china education. You'll get what are you gonna learn. And are you going to be better prepared to go in there. You know i was watching Tonight on tv On some sports show where they had the ten major mistake officials made and one of them was grown bettas called tails and the guy said hatch. And i had to laugh because a whole time as notre dame the first thing i said the locker room before the game was we will call tales. We always called. This was a game. But i just think that You're still a forty year decision. Not a four year decision. You talk about the only thing that's going to change it from where you are today to where you'll be five years from now the books you read the people you meet in a dream a dream and the baby. You're gonna meet university in our day and they're going to be the ones that are going to be illness companies and being. Ceo's and they're going to be the leaders that those are the people you're gonna come in contact with and then you get him on campus. Let them talk to your athletes now. The guy that doesn't feel comfortable in that environment isn't gonna get isn't gonna fit well notre dame anyway and now there were always people that didn't want the discipline did want the the challenge. Academically didn't want to have to work that hard on their academics guy that they won't be interested in the university of notre dame necessarily but one thing i used to laugh about was you would read. You would read these top twenty two football players in america. What schools air considered and other day. It'd be listed on about eighteen oven. Maybe seven of them. We were recruiting because we couldn't get in school academically. But they would always put notre dame was one of their schools Florida not because it made them look good so to speak and I think notre dame will get back. I really do because it's a national school a special school. One of the thing that i think is the lou holtz legacy when it comes to football in. It's almost like parenting. In a sense. You mentioned about urban meyer. I think a barry alvarez a host of other coaches you must feel awfully proud of the the legacy of lou holtz from the coaches that went on from underneath year wing onto other programs either as assistance or successful head coaches as well. I've always felt that. I learned this from woody. Hayes have an obligation to prepare your coaches to become head coaches. I'd always explain why we did things and how we did it. the philosophy at center. I think we've made it look simple that everybody would come in and they go. I can do that. I wanna be head coach. But i went down. Visit very alvorada in preparation for the bogue. Gabi speed come down and one time we had about. I don't know maybe a sixty some former graduate assistants were either in major college or professional that had been graduate assistant said many people gone on u. p. care coach for me at the university of arkansas. We we started him out You know monte kiffin coach for him in the defense coordinator tampa bay et cetera. Just you know it's just so many coaches you enjoy it and that's one of the reasons why you wanna talk to me. Now's not because. I prepare them but because of the contribution they made our success but not mind. There's there's their contribution to my success is far greater mike. Entre bution to there's
Dave Ramsey
Former FSU coach Bobby Bowden, Arizona’s Sumlin positive for virus
"Saw a notice notice in about an hour ago, the media started talking about it. Legendary football coach Bobby Bowden has now got Cove in 1990 years old. That's tough. I listen, I am a Miami hurricane. The rivalry with Florida State. I can't stand the Florida Gators. Sorry, but one just my personal There are a few football teams. I just can't deal with Steve Spurrier ruined me for the Gators. But I will say that I've always had nothing but respect for Bobby Bowden, not just what he accomplished, but how he accomplished. I thought he was a class act. He always treated me very well when we would go to his coaches camps. And 90 years old Covert. 19 says he feels fine. He'll see how the next day the next couple of days work out for him, You know, to bring it a little closer to home. I just read it was just reported by Tyler Drake in our Web team. That theory Zona Wildcats head football coach Kevin Someone is now positive. Wow. Now old is coach someone I don't know the answer to that in the late forties. I was gonna say 50 50, but I'm still a relatively young guy, especially compared about about this was in the hospital had have assert a little bit of surgery had had the cancer's removed from his skin. He's 90 years old, So he's in a much more risk your category Someone is 56, okay? Yeah. So that stuff, so I wonder what they do is they get ready to play football? Pac 12 gonna play football soon? Yeah, his quote says in adherence with all university protocols, Coach Sumlin entered self isolation. Immediately. Contact tracing began in earnest. And he has not experienced things that this is not how humans talk. By the way. I know what I say, because, well, if it was forced isolation that's called kidnapping. Of course it was. It was self isolation. I am feeling well and will be engaged in our ramp up activities on a virtual basis until I complete the isolation protocol.
The Paul Finebaum Show
Proposed federal law seeks to limit skyrocketing salaries of college coaches
"Well anyway. I I call one of your stories. He's just week. We're talking about salaries and congress trying to put a cap on things and you. Did I think a an amazing. I don't know how you doug all this up. A deep dive live into the evolution of coaching salaries. Take us through that process. Yeah I one of the one of the most interesting thing about college. Football is how in twenty twenty I guess in our in our myopic nature point twenty we think that we all have these like little arguments novel discussion Russia. We've been doing this thing for one hundred fifty years at this point in time there are quite a bit of things that just are not new and some of that is complaining about too many bowl games but another one of those things is talking about how coaching salaries are way too high. I mean it's it's it has quite literally almost almost always been like this. I mean Amos Alonzo Stagg at Chicago making six thousand dollars in eighteen eighteen ninety two now I went back and use the consumer price report and price some of these salaries out in you know twenty eighteen at the time buying power. And you know. That's six thousand dollars. Amazon does stag was making then was worth like a hundred and sixty thousand dollars back in eighteen. Ninety two there has always been this separation between what highly paid college. Football coaches made Versus what the Common Man Colombian mix. You know I'll I'll bring it to your audience and hit them home like bear Bryant when he's doing. Brian show that that famous Sunday highlight show That that became formative so formative for a lot of Alabama fans. He wasn't doing that just out of the good report he was because he was getting paid there Bryan getting in pay. That's why I thought he. I thought you said he was a benevolent. So I believe you remember this because you weren't born but he also had to Eat the potato chips and drink cocoa which by the way had bourbon in it. Yes absolutely I mean like bear. Bryant was Bear Bryant was cheering the back right now. Yeah so I find it amazing we we. We had a professor on earlier who who was very much a part of the Donna? Shalala Team Wanting to limit coaching Ching salaries so When did they make the big turn? When did they start going? I mean as as some of the critics say out of control to me. It really doesn't matter what any of these guys make but TAKE A. When was the big turn? I think they really and truly exploded in the nineteen eighties because in the nineteen eighties. That's when that Supreme Court hate happened with like Georgia Oklahoma and you know they got. TV rights You know they divorced the TV rights from the NCAA and schools colleges then became able to go. She ate television rights As entertaining defended themselves. Obviously than we get into the CFO era and BCS. And what we have now where the SEC. Disperse what was it. Six hundred and fifty some odd the million dollars yesterday give or take a few million yeah To all fourteen member schools. I mean look. The bedrock of this cannot be overstated. The bedrock bedrock of this is this when you as an Athletic Department at Florida Alabama at Lsu is Florida state when you do not have to pay your labor force when you do not have to compensate you or athletes. That money has to go somewhere now. That money goes to beyond coaching salaries. I mean that's the facilities race that is everything. Everything that makes these college will programs at opulent as they can be obviously a really really big part of the PIE now. Is Coaching salaries. Now Coaching coaching salaries the early eighties. That's stuff starts to get reported. That's my really really starts coming into Coming into the sport in a way that it had really really before that By the time you get through the mid nineties Florida's paying Steve Spurrier the one of the first billion dollar contracts so that he doesn't jump to the NFL at that time honestly the NFL itself explodes. You've got that competition. So it's it's the competition that that spurs in any industry the street Salaries and money and will lose those things but the early eighties. I think is where we can really pinpoint when college athletics kind of started growing up from a from a fiscal standpoint talking to Richard Johnson from a better society in now we all know what is going on. I'm interested where were you. Were you sit on this. Because the the so called Donna. Shalala proposal We heard Professor Ridpath on this would would curtail a lot of things I find find. It somewhat amusing chancellors and presidents at Private Schools More so than public schools making. I'm five six million dollars a year We have an offensive and defensive coordinator is making major seven figure salaries I know is a highly paid journalists. Where we're we're are you on what Shola is is attempting to to do at least down one lane in Congress right. I think you have a good point. the the facilities boom and the salary boom of coaches collect directors and the things that we coach Sports Mirror. That of what we see on the institutional side at a lot of these verses and I think that is one thing thing that really gets lost you know like you said like g Foreign President of like West Virginia. Like these guys make guys and girls make six figures seven figures. There is a lot of money in higher education in the United States at the highest levels. college athletics is it is not an outlander But like studies have shown time and time again going back thirty forty fifty years that when your football all team is good when your basketball team is good It becomes you know they always say that is the front porch of the university. Admissions skyrocket when athletics. Do well and that is. Why a lot of these University of course than anything else I think? Put Up with and we'll pay out the nose for Nick Sabin or Jim Harbaugh or a Davos. We or whatever I think the dirty secret is is the weight from Ro a lot of these endowments in some of these very popular. Schools would shrink a lot more than people wanNA realize. No I mean just look around. I mean boone pickens. She died recently. I mean the the amount of money that he put into Oklahoma state and I don't I don't mean to disparage Oklahoma state in stillwater Oklahoma. Oh my been there. And if you haven't Richard Make sure that you put that on your bucket list. Wouldn't it wouldn't have had that type of money And and a lot of these Jerry Jones. He's given to the University of Arkansas. You can go down the list And I mean and it's because of one thing we're trying to win in in in college football or basketball depending on on on where you live and what part of the country you're in. Yeah absolutely I saw a stew. MANDL's works in the for pretty athletic. He He has a college pat column and somebody asked him Ten million dollars. What would you do with it to build a staff? And I look the question and I was like look man if you WANNA compete with Alabama Lsu Clemson Oklahoma Ohio state. You need more your salary. You Pool has to be bigger than ten million dollars. I mean on on its face. You'RE GONNA have to pay a coach at that level. Five five and a half six six billion dollars. You'RE GONNA have to pay your coordinators eight hundred nine hundred thousand dollars because Dave Aranda was was pulling such a salaried Lsu a few atmosphere necessarily because he was such town defensive coordinator which he is but it was because one opinions coordinator so that the only job job they'll leave for is a G. Five or or power five kids coaching job. It's got bulletproof coordinators. I WANNA lose them. I don't want to take collateral. If they leave me they gotta take step up so okay. You're paying both your coordinators Like one point eight billion dollars between the two. That's like eight million dollars. Just gone to the head coach in coordinators. Now you're in another like five million dollars higher director staff your eight assistant coaches which is all right. That's your ten assistant coaches You want to compete with Georgia Alabama. All right we'll have a party because you have to fill out the rest of those staffs with analysts. We assist tense You know you gotTa have a staff of three saw guys kind of the shadow. Coaching staff that that Alabama kind of those famous or infamous. No matter how how are depending on which by the fence you went on but You know it takes money to keep up with the Joneses and it takes a lot of line really want we national championship. Always great to have you on Richard other than chicken. What's the what's the second most favorite food that you'll be serving the super bowl party Sunday lady a friend is bringing some guacamole? She'll be homemade guacamole. I'm not a big block fan but you know you know how this you gotta try say like it. So that'll that'll it'll be my My side dish. I cannot wait I if I'm in the neighborhood I'll just drop Bil- bring some bring bring a some some fruit cake leftover from Christmas. I couldn't give away Gringa fruitcake. Brings some cold ones man. I'll have seat for you right on the couch next to meatball. Thank you great. Great to talk to you again come back soon. Have you
CBS Sports Radio
Steve Spurrier, Emmett Smith and Danny War discussed on CBS Sports Radio
"Going into the Gators ring of honor today, there's only five members of that group. Steve Spurrier Emmett Smith, Danny war, full, Jack, Youngblood, Wilber
Talkin' Pets
Steve Spurrier to coach Orlando team in new spring league, Alliance of American Football
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London, Fisher Investments and President discussed on The Loveland Report
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