The Spurrier retirement annoucement timing seems odd.

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Leaving mid season just seems odd with the whole "get out in front to hire a good coach" reasonings South Carolina is not a destination school or anything, so getting out ahead isn't necessarily going to benefit them. They'll get a second rate coach.

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You're thinking is off ... but that's okay. I remember the days when Florida was not a "destination school or anything" as well.

Oh, and you proved what a fricking idiot you are by saying we'll get a 'second rate coach" to follow Holtz and Spurrier ... dumbass.

Been talking with my buddy... Rewatched his post game presser after the LSU game, too.

The way he sounded when he was talking about the issues he had with some of the players miscues, the talent level, and his own mistakes in the game, it is very clear that one of two things is happening:

1). His heart just isn't in it anymore. The old HBC wouldn't stand for the discipline driven miscues during the games, and would have been fiery as all hell in addressing it. Instead, he was almost indifferent post-game.

2). There is an off the field issue that is distracting him, possibly health or family issues.

Hopefully it is the former rather than the latter.

Neither of them were exactly in their prime or extremely effective.

I'm actually totally fine with the timing. There is nothing to salvage with this season.

If we finish 2-10 or 3-9 with Spurrier throughout the season, our stock as a program goes into absolute free fall. We'd lose recruits in January rather than October. We now have more time to get back on the right track.

At least now we have no choice but to make changes to the program that are desperately needed. It's time for a rejuvenation. Hopefully Tanner can pull it off.

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Lou holtz did absolutely nothing when he went to South Carolina.

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You must not be very familiar with the history of our program.

We went from 0-11 his first year to 8-4 the next year. But yeah, nothing.

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Spurrier brought your ceiling 3 years in a row. No coach moving forward will find that much success at South Carolina. You had spurrier at a huge bargain because he wanted to play Augusta national often.

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You're a fricking retard

Our facilities are light years better and this is a much better job than it used to be. I'm not even sure what the bolded part means.

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Neither of them were exactly in their prime or extremely effective.

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Nor were either of them "second rate hires."

Holtz was brilliant pulling us outta the shite Fat Bradstard Scott left us in ... and he was perfect for the job. Biggest turnaround in NCAA football history at the time and he left us in a place that allowed us to hire the HBC.

The HBC was, by no means, a "second rate hire." Or are you saying it was? It was the biggest hire in the country at the time.

For that matter so was pulling Holtz out of retirement.

For that matter so was hiring Fat Bradstard Scott at the time. He had spent 11 years under Bowden. Was considered the number one young coach in the country at the time ... named a top recruiter by Parade, coming off a National Championship and Heisman winner season at FSU as the OC and recruiting coordinator at FSU ... so it would not be a stretch to say that none of our last three hires were "second rate hires" like the fricktard OP claims.

Neither did we make "second rate hires" in hiring Paul Dietzel, Jim Carlen or Joe Morrison. So it would be safe to say we've only made two "second rate hires in over fifty years. Those would be interim coach Richard Bell for one year. And App State HC at the time Sparky Woods who was a good hire at the time coming off the steroid scandal ... who had a very good rep and was being sought at other programs while at App State.

So again, the OP is talking out of his arse.

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Spurrier brought your ceiling 3 years in a row. No coach moving forward will find that much success at South Carolina.

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just shut the frick up

He probably thanked him for all he's done for the game.