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Interesting series of Interviews with a CFB Icon, SteveSpurrier, 'The Ole Ball Coach' - StanUSwagU - 04-12-2025
Hi,
(1) Again, many on this board might not follow SEC Football, as much as I do, so I thought I would share, a YouTube interview series, I thought was very interesting between Greg McElroy (ex Alabama National Champion QB) and Steve Spurrier, the 1966 Heis-man Trophy Winner, 6 Time SEC champ !, 1 Time National Champ !
For anyone, who doesn't know, Steve Spurrier, is an Icon of CollegeFootball, and I would go so far as to say an 'Icon of Sports in General, and especially College Sports' !
(2) Here is the 1st Part of a series of YouTube Interviews between Greg McElroy and 'Coach Steve Spurrier (The Ole Ball Coach)' where he talks about 'What he looks for in a QB, and why he always thought it was good to be playing 2 QBs each season, keeping both feeling like they were 'appreciated, involved & getting opportunities':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgKGg4O61E0&list=PL87LlAF-2PIwv61zy0g20RQH4oZY8QLM4&index=3
(3) Here is the Full Interview, where the Interview & Coach Spurrier, cover everything ranging from & to:
•QBs
•The need for Coaches & ADs to 'be Charismatic' to 'Sell the Program to Recruits & Transfers' & 'To Generate Excitement among Alums and Donors'
•Todays State of CFB, with NIL and Transfer Portal
etc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEGUff4tIt0&list=PL87LlAF-2PIwv61zy0g20RQH4oZY8QLM4&index=4
(4) Some may have heard me say Stanford needs to hire Head Football Coaches & Athletic Directors who have 'Charisma' ...to 'Energize what at times can be sometimes be a 'Moribund, Apathetic, College Sports environment'
It would have been nice if Stanford would or had approached Coach Spurrier to 'work at Stanford, as a Head Football Coach or AD, cause literally this man 'HAS DONE IT ALL' when it comes to College Football:
Among other things:
• He Coached at Duke
• He Coached at Georgia Tech
• He Coached at the Univ of South Carolina
• As HeadFootballCoach at U of Florida, when he was starting out at a Recruiting Deficit (compared to the other SEC powerhouses) He 'came up with a totally different style of Football, at U of Florida, that worked with the Players he could recruit at that time, Smart QBs & WRs, & Smaller, More Nimbler OLineman when the rest of the SEC had him beat as far a Recruiting Big OLines and DLines ...then after he started Winning at UF, he was able to 'get into the living rooms of the more 4 & 5 star Lineman and DLinemen
• He Coached in the USFL
• He Played and Coached in the NFL
(5) It would have been nice (maybe even now) for Stanford to bring in Coach Spurrier as 'an Advisor AD' to 'Advise for our Football & Athletic Department', in my opinion.
RE: Interesting series of Interviews with a CFB Icon, SteveSpurrier, 'The Ole Ball Coach' - Spiny_Norman - 04-12-2025
Stanford actually hired a head football coach from the Steve Spurrier coaching tree. Buddy Teevens had been a Spurrier assistant for 3 years at Florida before being hired by Stanford. It did not work out.
RE: Interesting series of Interviews with a CFB Icon, SteveSpurrier, 'The Ole Ball Coach' - Mick - 04-12-2025
My memory of Steve Spurrier is that he spent nine years of a ten-year NFL career backing up local favorite, Stanford alum and NFL MVP John Brodie. Spurrier went 6-2-1 as a starter in 1972, his career highlight. His overall NFL record other than 1972 as a starter was 7-30-1
Spurrier threw ducks that were so wounded, he made Cordova's arm look like John Elway's. If you're around here for a while, you'll understand the reference.
Here's Spurrier's NFL "highlight" film. You can almost feel the 49er receivers' collective impatience at waiting for the football to arrive.
(14) Steve Spurrier - Career Highlights - YouTube
RE: Interesting series of Interviews with a CFB Icon, SteveSpurrier, 'The Ole Ball Coach' - StanUSwagU - 04-12-2025
(04-12-2025, 02:23 PM)Mick Wrote: My memory of Steve Spurrier is that he spent nine years of a ten-year NFL career backing up local favorite, Stanford alum and NFL MVP John Brodie. Spurrier went 6-2-1 as a starter in 1972, his career highlight. His overall NFL record other than 1972 as a starter was 7-30-1
Spurrier threw ducks that were so wounded, he made Cordova's arm look like John Elway's. If you're around here for a while, you'll understand the reference.
Here's Spurrier's NFL "highlight" film. You can almost feel the 49er receivers' collective impatience at waiting for the football to arrive.
(14) Steve Spurrier - Career Highlights - YouTube
Hi Mick,
1. Thanks so much for that YouTube Video of 'Steve Spurrier NFL Highlights' !
2. Absolutely Awesome ! (and the music scoring accompanying those highlights Awesome also ! )
3. I do love Coach Spurriers vast knowledge & experience for College Football, & How he used his Passion, Enthusiasm, & Charisma to Connect with Players & Recruits, and to bring Excitement to all the Universities he Coached at !
RE: Interesting series of Interviews with a CFB Icon, SteveSpurrier, 'The Ole Ball Coach' - fullmetal - 04-13-2025
I don't doubt that Spurrier has done a lot of things in football. But he last coached college ball in 2015. That's ten years ago. The scope of college ball is way beyond 2015 now. At 79 yrs old, I don't see how he holds appeal to the modern college recruit. JH and DS -- much younger, and relatable to the players. Right now in an era where every coach has to re-recruit the entire team back each season...I just don't know. It would just look back to hire a man who's been away from college football for a decade.
As AD, he is unfamiliar with an institution that does not hold football as one of its primary motivations. In fact, the student body is famously so focused on achievement that if the football team does not achieve, then the students have their own achievements to work toward, and their attention will be directed thusly. He won't be used to working in a university that doesn't live in the southeast culture of sports. He probably hasn't had to answer to university officials in ten years either, much less a GM by the name of Andrew Luck.
The man can be venerated for his lifetime's worth of achievements in football, but it was a different world of football, and Stanford should look toward the future (while figuring out what role football should play in the university's future).
RE: Interesting series of Interviews with a CFB Icon, SteveSpurrier, 'The Ole Ball Coach' - JohnR34231 - 04-14-2025
(04-12-2025, 02:23 PM)Mick Wrote: My memory of Steve Spurrier is that he spent nine years of a ten-year NFL career backing up local favorite, Stanford alum and NFL MVP John Brodie. Spurrier went 6-2-1 as a starter in 1972, his career highlight. His overall NFL record other than 1972 as a starter was 7-30-1
Spurrier threw ducks that were so wounded, he made Cordova's arm look like John Elway's. If you're around here for a while, you'll understand the reference.
Here's Spurrier's NFL "highlight" film. You can almost feel the 49er receivers' collective impatience at waiting for the football to arrive.
(14) Steve Spurrier - Career Highlights - YouTube
As I recall, Cordova's problem wasn't arm strength but accuracy. He had plenty of zip on the ball, it's just that the ball went five feet over the receiver's head or in the dirt in front of him (hence the nickname Cordivot).
RE: Interesting series of Interviews with a CFB Icon, SteveSpurrier, 'The Ole Ball Coach' - lex24 - 04-14-2025
(04-14-2025, 04:05 AM)JohnR34231 Wrote:(04-12-2025, 02:23 PM)Mick Wrote: My memory of Steve Spurrier is that he spent nine years of a ten-year NFL career backing up local favorite, Stanford alum and NFL MVP John Brodie. Spurrier went 6-2-1 as a starter in 1972, his career highlight. His overall NFL record other than 1972 as a starter was 7-30-1
Spurrier threw ducks that were so wounded, he made Cordova's arm look like John Elway's. If you're around here for a while, you'll understand the reference.
Here's Spurrier's NFL "highlight" film. You can almost feel the 49er receivers' collective impatience at waiting for the football to arrive.
(14) Steve Spurrier - Career Highlights - YouTube
As I recall, Cordova's problem wasn't arm strength but accuracy. He had plenty of zip on the ball, it's just that the ball went five feet over the receiver's head or in the dirt in front of him (hence the nickname Cordivot).
Correct. He also bore somewhat of a physical resemblance to Jim Plunkett. Very strong arm. And then there was Guy Benjamin. Who didn’t really look like much. Kind of skinny. Sleepy eyes. Threw one of the most beautiful passes of any quarterback at Stanford. Great quarterback. I once heard Benjamin got ready for football games by watching cartoons. Don’t know if it’s true or not . But I like the story anyway.
Cordova looked like the prototypical quarterback. Benjamin looked like a 70s stoner.
Jack Christensen was a very good football man and a very good football coach. He just missed on that one. It happens.