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Steve Spurrier holds press conference to call out Georgia reporter (Video)
By Graham Watson7 hours agoDr. Saturday
Steve Spurrier called an impromptu press conference on Wednesday to call out his “enemies.”
No, seriously.
The gist of Spurrier’s beef was that Mark Bradley, a writer from Georgia, wrote a column about Spurrier’s age and whether he was still fit to coach. The local Columbia, S.C., paper ran the column and Spurrrier took issue with it.
Here’s the part of the column that set Spurrier off:
I think they are a program on the decent, and I think it’s going to be interesting to see how long the coach stays. There are some guys you think, ‘Yeah, he’s going to be coaching when he’s 70.’ Steve Spurrier was never one of those guys for me, and it’s hard for me to envision him coaching much beyond this if he doesn’t think he has a chance to win, and I’m not sure he’s going to have a chance to win the next few years the way he’s had it the last few years.
“That’s allowing our enemies to write about us in our paper and I don’t like that,” Spurrier said.
Who are Spurrier’s enemies?
“The media. The media,” Spurrier said. “We’ve got some enemies that write in the Atlanta paper. They cover the Bulldogs. We let that guy write in our paper the other day. That doesn’t make sense, does it?”
When Spurrier started his career, a beef like this probably would be handled with a simple office sitdown. But in this day and age of a 24-hour news cycle and social media, simply putting a writer on national blast seems to be the way to go.
Of course, if South Carolina does have another 7-6 season, Bradley may be the one with the last word.
Steve Spurrier holds press conference to call out Georgia reporter (Video)
By Graham Watson7 hours agoDr. Saturday
Steve Spurrier called an impromptu press conference on Wednesday to call out his “enemies.”
No, seriously.
The gist of Spurrier’s beef was that Mark Bradley, a writer from Georgia, wrote a column about Spurrier’s age and whether he was still fit to coach. The local Columbia, S.C., paper ran the column and Spurrrier took issue with it.
Here’s the part of the column that set Spurrier off:
I think they are a program on the decent, and I think it’s going to be interesting to see how long the coach stays. There are some guys you think, ‘Yeah, he’s going to be coaching when he’s 70.’ Steve Spurrier was never one of those guys for me, and it’s hard for me to envision him coaching much beyond this if he doesn’t think he has a chance to win, and I’m not sure he’s going to have a chance to win the next few years the way he’s had it the last few years.
“That’s allowing our enemies to write about us in our paper and I don’t like that,” Spurrier said.
Who are Spurrier’s enemies?
“The media. The media,” Spurrier said. “We’ve got some enemies that write in the Atlanta paper. They cover the Bulldogs. We let that guy write in our paper the other day. That doesn’t make sense, does it?”
When Spurrier started his career, a beef like this probably would be handled with a simple office sitdown. But in this day and age of a 24-hour news cycle and social media, simply putting a writer on national blast seems to be the way to go.
Of course, if South Carolina does have another 7-6 season, Bradley may be the one with the last word.
