re: Teams you hate the most

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When Spurrier spurned UT for Florida, though he grew up in the shadow of Neyland, that permanently etched that rivalry in stone

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Spurrier made the right choice to go to Florida for 2 reasons:

1. Tennessee was still running a Wing-T when he graduated from Science Hill.

2. Tennessee didn't offer him a scholarship for football. He was only offered a scholarship to play basketball at UT (by Ray Mears). So I don't know that not playing somewhere that didn't offer you a scholarship is "spurning" them.


BTW, Science Hill is 106 miles from Neyland Stadium...so it must have been a huge shadow.