re: Spurrier vs Richt

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Spurrier has always been a better coach

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agreed, now let's go tell all the recruits.

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Already on it. I've been telling them they'll have the best coach in America

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I'll tell them the same thing, but I'm going to be selective on the quote to really focus on the important part.

What's funny in this thread is everyone pointing to spurrier's accomplishments at UF as a determining factor in the original question. Clearly the OP meant spurrier at SC. Everything he posted was in reference to SC:

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I respect him because he brought SC out of a nobody to a team that has been consistently challenging over the past seasons.

I think Spurrier has done more with less.

Less money.
Less Alumni.
Less recruiting/talent.

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UF-era spurrier is one of the 6 or 7 best coaches in the entire history of the SEC. There would be no debate, none whatsoever.

SC-era spurrier should get a ton of credit simply based on what kind of program he stepped into. But it's not like he's set the world ablaze there. It took him until his 6th year to win more than 8 games. And even though he had an excellent 3 year run, he's only won one division title there in 10 years, and it was in a year that UF/UGA/UT went a combined 20-19 (10-14). People always want to give UGA grief for winning the east when it's "down" (which is laughable), so they need to recognize SC did the same thing.

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He's still a better coach than Richt.

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I agree. As I said in my first post, every answer would be spurrier and with good reason. But the SC-era spurrier and Richt isn't nearly as big of a gap as people would make it out to be.

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Their head to head record the last 5 years is pretty one sided

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Why do you just use 5 years?

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People always want to give UGA grief for winning the east when it's "down" (which is laughable), so they need to recognize SC did the same thing.

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That's so 2011.

Mizzou only wins when the division is down.

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Now that the defense was historically bad last year, (but the offense was historically good), Spurrier has "mailed it in." Maybe he has, but this year will prove what he's got left.

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I was referring more to the comment where he said he was going to stay 1-2 more years. That was a disaster from a program operation perspective.

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It takes awhile for someone to build a real program out of the steaming pile of trash USCe was 10 years ago.

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SC went 25-22 (53%) the 4 years preceeded spurrier. In his first 5 years, they went 35-28 (56%). They were only a marginally better team his first 5 years than they were at the end of the holtz era, record wise.

I know it's totally hypothetical and 100% impossible to even predict considering how things change drastically from year to year....but are there any names that SC fans would be interested in after spurrier leaves, assuming it's in the next 3 years?

Again, I know it's impossible to know who would be available, but are there any definites that you would say "we have to at least throw an offer at that guy no matter what"

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They were only a marginally better team his first 5 years than they were at the end of the holtz era, record wise.

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That's what I was saying. It takes a few years to bring players in and to change the culture of a team into one that thinks they can win. He's done that and it's really shown the last few years. I'm interested to see who they hire after he calls it quits.

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It takes a few years to bring players in and to change the culture of a team into one that thinks they can win

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Richt, meyer, saban, malzahn, and countless others did that far earlier than year 6.