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re: Why do the majority say Florida football started under Spurrier…
Posted on 5/12/24 at 2:51 pm to Oklahomey
Posted on 5/12/24 at 2:51 pm to Oklahomey
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Why do the majority say Florida football started under Spurrier…
and quite possibly ignore the success from 1983-1985? Do the major NCAA infractions overshadow 1984-1985?
Like an onion there are a lot of layers here.
In 1979 when Florida hired Charley Pell, he did not retain any of the previous coaches, not a single one. Well one of those coaches was 1st year coach Steve Spurrier who coached the QB's and WR's.
Fast forward 11 years to Spurrier taking over Florida, and he always had a disdain for Florida football in the 80's. He never gave any credit to those teams and basically acted like that decade didn't exist.
I think it was both a personal grudge and also that Spurrier didn't like the cheating that went on. Either way, Spurrier ran a clean program and he won big, so his detractors quickly got in line and it is hard to find too much fault with a guy who is winning and not cheating.
As someone who was associated with the program in the 80's it sucks, but we know we had some bad arse teams no matter if we have the accolades or not.
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Posted on 5/12/24 at 2:54 pm to bigDgator
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As someone who was associated with the program in the 80's
Very cool.
Posted on 5/12/24 at 2:54 pm to bigDgator
So when teams are going back and adding championships to their resumes from years gone by, you aren't ever going to hear shite from Florida as long as Spurrier is around. 
Posted on 5/13/24 at 9:24 pm to bigDgator
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I think it was both a personal grudge and also that Spurrier didn't like the cheating that went on.
It's rather ironic that Spurrier didn't like the cheating going on at UF; I'm sure he didn't.
However, among the reasons Spurrier left Florida was because of his dispute with the UF admin........he was upset that UF would not permit him to cut some corners in recruiting that he felt some other programs were getting away with (hooray for the UF admin). I know this is true from several sources within the UF department at the time. In fact, one of your most "favorite" writers (I use that word in a sarcastic way) at an Orlando paper who 's a UF alumnus relayed this info to certain other members of the media (moi).
It was also known that Spurrier left Florida owing a certain other big-time donor to the Gator program money from a golfing bet that he lost.
Spurrier could be quite "spurrilous" in his ways.
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