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Steve Spurrier (bye)

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Great read and very similar to tOSU's treatment by some hometown folks...

MeetMeAtthe50

Finding the truth in the Spurrier - Morris feud

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By Doug Jolley

Stories are what journalists write, and there are always two sides to every story. On the Steve Spurrier ? Ron Morris feud, here?s mine.

Ron Morris, columnist for The State newspaper was called out in unprecedented fashion by South Carolina head football coach Steve Spurrier Tuesday. Spurrier laid out a new policy effectively immediately that he would not talk to the media when Morris was in the room.

Spurrier said in reference to Morris, ?As all of you know, we have a negative guy over here that tries to hurt our football program. He has a right to do that ? the criticism he shows me is fine. I just don?t like stories that aren?t true.? ?Last spring he wrote a story about me recruiting Bruce Ellington and luring him away from the basketball program,? Spurrier said. ?It?s a completely fabricated story and I took exception to that. That?s the only thing I?ve ever taken exception to with sports writers is when they write stuff that isn?t true. I didn?t talk to Bruce Ellington until after he had met with Coach Horn and came over here.?

Spurrier said, ?I?ve learned with him sitting in these meetings that I?m helping him contribute to writing negative stuff about our football program. Simple as that, so I?m not going to talk when he?s in here. That?s my right as the head coach. I don?t have to talk to him and I don?t have to talk when he?s in here.?

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Are Morris and his employer The State truly negative in their coverage of USC athletics? I arrived from North Carolina at USC to study journalism in the summer of 1977. I had no preconceived notions of how South Carolina athletics was covered by the local media, but I was immediately stunned with how negative The State?s take on most things regarding USC athletics was at that time. That negative slant in my opinion hasn?t changed in the 34 years following. If I had been studying at Columbia University in the New York market, the vitriol would hardly have surprised me, but the consistent negativity by this southern hometown paper against the in-town flagship university was apparent to this then outsider from the start.
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Dabo Swinney with some notable smack talk about South Carolina.

SI.com

In what may have amounted to a modern-day game of Telephone, Dabo Swinney -- in responding to a quote attributed to Steve Spurrier about the relative state of their programs today -- blasted South Carolina. "My kids' grandkids won't ever live long enough to see this really become a rivalry." ... "The best era they've had in 115 years of South Carolina football is right now and they've done a great job. They have whipped our butt in three years and it's my job to change that." ... "He's exactly right they ain't LSU, Alabama and they certainly ain't Clemson. That's why Carolina is in Chapel Hill and USC is in California and thee university in this state is and always will be Clemson. You can print that you can Tweet that."

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Nothing like throwing another log on the bonfire of a rivalry whose most distinguished moment over the past 10 years or so was both teams forfeiting bowl invitations because of a fight.
 
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Spurrier just received a 2-year contract extension through 2015.

The Gamecocks will be down 6 schollies due to "three major violations" in the football program.

SI.com

South Carolina to cut 6 scholarships over next 3 years

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) South Carolina says in a release it does not dispute three major NCAA violations involving its football program and will eliminate six scholarships over the next three years.In its response to the NCAA released Wednesday the university also said it would reduce official recruiting visits in football and track and field.
The NCAA said 10 South Carolina football players and two members of its women's track team received $47,000 in improper benefits for staying at a Columbia hotel for a reduced rate that was about a quarter of what should've been charged.
The NCAA also said South Carolina athletes or prospects received $8,000 in benefits from two executives from a mentoring foundation.
The NCAA will consider South Carolina's self-imposed penalties at a hearing on the violations in February.

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It's hard to cover this with all of the Linsanity.

CBS

Spurrier, South Carolina officials head to L.A. for infractions hearing

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- It's South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier's time in the NCAA crosshairs on Friday. Spurrier and 10 other university coaches, leaders and officials will be in Los Angeles this weekend to appear before the NCAA Committee on Infractions. The NCAA says the school received $55,000 in improper benefits for athletes -- mostly football players -- who stayed at a hotel for a reduced rate and for South Carolina's involvement with a mentoring group in Delaware.
South Carolina agreed in its response to the NCAA in December that major rules violations did take place.
"Sometimes crap happens," Spurrier said bluntly earlier this month. "You just have to deal with it."

Spurrier was not named in the NCAA's list of allegations. This will be his first time before the NCAA panel since 1990 when he was Florida's new coach and the program dealt with infractions that occurred before Spurrier's arrival.
Spurrier said the hearing would help "find out who was at fault or if anybody was at fault, that's what we're trying to search for."
The bulk of improper benefits come from 12 athletes staying at the Whitney Hotel at $450 each for a two-bedroom suite.
The NCAA found the hotel a few miles off campus charged a rate of $14.95 per athlete for two-bedroom suites. The NCAA said the rate should've been more than $57 per night for each athlete. One football player who spent more than a year at the hotel, the NCAA said, received an extra benefit worth $19,280.
The NCAA said the school received $47,000 worth of improper benefits from the rate reduction.
South Carolina's former compliance director Jennifer Stiles had said the hotel rate was comparable to other available off-campus housing. The NCAA called her assessment "flawed" in correspondence from 2010 and said the school should've compared with rates given others who stayed at the Whitney long term.
"Had this good faith error in judgment not occurred, the university believes the violations in allegation one would have been minimized," South Carolina said in its NCAA response.
The NCAA also alleged that South Carolina received $8,000 in improper benefits from the Student Athlete Mentoring Foundation.
SAMF president Steve Gordon and treasurer Kevin Lahn were found to have paid for several unofficial visits by Gamecocks freshman receiver Damiere Byrd. Both Gordon and Lahn are South Carolina graduates.
Byrd was suspended for South Carolina's first four games and made to pay back $2,700.
Lahn also paid for a $3,350 dinner cruise on nearby Lake Murray for several prospects that was also attended by track coach Curtis Frye and 16 members of his program.



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ESPN's Chris Low asked Spurrier about the move of the Georgia-South Carolina game from the 2nd week of the season to the 6th week.

Ball Coach replied, "...I sortof always liked playing them that second game because you could always count on them having two or three key players suspended."

:lol: Way to go Coach. Zing them Leg Humpers every chance you get :banger:


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Gatorubet;2141170; said:
ESPN's Chris Low asked Spurrier about the move of the Georgia-South Carolina game from the 2nd week of the season to the 6th week.

Ball Coach replied, "...I sortof always liked playing them that second game because you could always count on them having two or three key players suspended."

:lol: Way to go Coach. Zing them Leg Humpers every chance you get :banger:


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That is funny. What an asshole thing to say. (and I mean that in a good way). This dude is always saying something chippy, I like it.
 
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