re: Cocks: Post Spurrier era

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Holtz went 33-37 at SC and was 10 games under .500 in conference.

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99 went 0–11, .... 0–8 6th (East)
00 went 8–4, 5–3 .... 2nd (East) | W Outback Bowl
01 went 9–3, 5–3 .... 3rd (East) | W Outback Bowl
02 went 5–7, 3–5 .... 4th (East)
03 went 5–7, 2–6 .... 4th (East)
04 went 6–5, 4–4 .... 3rd (East)

South Carolina : 33–37, 19–29

Like Charlie Pell, Holtz was the coach that took a bad team to a moderate to good team so Spurrier arrived at both schools with better level of play and players then what either school had historically. Viewed another way, if neither Pell or Holtz were at their respective schools, Spurrier may not have coached at either one as both would have required building a program from scratch and not just upgrading one that was already competitive.