Steve Spurrier continues jabbing Clemson, Dabo Swinney
When Steve Spurrier isn’t talking about Alabama or Tennessee, the South Carolina head coach can often be seen and heard exchanging barbs with Dabo Swinney and Clemson.
After Swinney said at ACC media days that Spurrier is from Pluto and he’s from Mars, Spurrier replied in the only way the Old Ball Coach knows how.
Steve Spurrier on Dabo Swinney’s “He’s from Pluto, I’m from Mars” quote: “Dabo still thinks there are 9 planets out there"
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Spurrier has had the last laugh on the football field as his Gamecocks have defeated their in-state rival five consecutive years as the rivalry between the two programs has been livened up with both programs having high levels of success and both coaches engaging in some good-natured trash talk.
It’s the offseason and media days are great for some quotable quotes, but Spurrier would like to remind us all that he’s not the only one doing the talking.
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“The only thing I remind Dabo of is his comments three years ago of the real Carolina being in Chapel Hill and the real USC being in California,” said Spurrier, whose Gamecocks have won five in a row over the Tigers. “Sometimes he forgets he throws some stuff out there also. He wants to make people believe that I’m the only one that throws a little stuff out there.”
And who could forget the dig by Swinney after Clemson knocked off Ohio State in the Orange Bowl last season when he said they were the first and only school in South Carolina to win a BCS bowl?
Spurrier hasn’t forgotten about those comments and had this to say:
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“We’ve never even been to [a BCS bowl],” Spurrier said. “I’ll admit to that, although we beat them about every year. They get there and we don’t. That’s just the way it is. The SEC can only send two teams and the ACC sends two. We’ve got too many good teams going.
“That’s just the way it’s worked out. He’s correct. But would you call the Orange Bowl a BCS bowl? They won the national championship there in 1981. I asked Danny [Ford, Clemson’s former coach], ‘Have they completely forgotten about you and your team in ’81?’ He said, ‘I think they have.'”
Spurrier insists he and Swinney get along well and their wives are great friends after working together for a charity and it’s all just a ‘bunch of talk.’
That talk helps us all get through the long offseason.