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Not A Recording: Steve Spurrier Says He’ll Be Back In 2015

ByPhil Watson|
Oct 4, 2014; Lexington, KY, USA; South Carolina Gamecocks head coach Steve Spurrier during the game against the Kentucky Wildcats in the second half at Commonwealth Stadium. Kentucky defeated South Carolina 45-38. Mandatory Credit: Mark Zerof-USA TODAY Sports
Oct 4, 2014; Lexington, KY, USA; South Carolina Gamecocks head coach Steve Spurrier during the game against the Kentucky Wildcats in the second half at Commonwealth Stadium. Kentucky defeated South Carolina 45-38. Mandatory Credit: Mark Zerof-USA TODAY Sports

South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier told reporters Tuesday he plans to return to the Gamecocks in 2015. On Wednesday, he repeated that message.

Steve Spurrier told us Tuesday. In case we weren’t clear on the message, he told us again Wednesday.

He plans to be back on the sidelines for the South Carolina Gamecocks for an 11th season in 2015.

According to ESPN.com’s Edward Aschoff, Spurrier repeated that message Wednesday:

It’s not gone according to plan for Spurrier and the Gamecocks this season, ranked ninth in the preseason Associated Press poll, South Carolina has stumbled to a 4-5 mark this season and needs two wins in its final three games just to get bowl-eligible.

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The Gamecocks wrap up their SEC schedule Nov. 15 at Florida, host South Alabama on Nov. 22 and finish the regular season with their annual in-state rivalry matchup with Clemson, on the road this year, on Nov. 29.

All five of South Carolina’s losses have come in SEC play and four of the five have been by seven points or fewer. Aside from a 52-28 thumping at the hands of Texas A&M in the season opener, the Gamecocks lost by one to Missouri, by seven at Kentucky, by seven at Auburn—a game in which the SEC admitted officials should have awarded South Carolina an untimed down at the end—and by three to Tennessee.

The Gamecocks have gone 11-2 each of the last three seasons, beating Wisconsin in the Capital One Bowl on New Year’s Day.

Spurrier is 81-44 at South Carolina after going 122-27-1 and winning a national championship while at Florida from 1990-2001. He also went 20-13-1 at Duke from 1987-89 and coached professionally for three seasons with the USFL’s Tampa Bay Bandits (1983-85) and two seasons with the Washington Redskins (2002-03).

Spurrier, 69, played at Florida from 1964-66 and was the Heisman Trophy winner as a senior, passing for 2,012 yards and 16 touchdowns.  The third overall pick in the 1967 draft, Spurrier played nine years with the San Francisco 49ers and one with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers from 1967-76.

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