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re: What kept Steve Spurrier from winning more than 1 national title at Florida?
Posted on 7/27/26 at 11:26 am to WG_Dawg
Posted on 7/27/26 at 11:26 am to WG_Dawg
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don't believe i ever compared their resumes did I?
You said they had the same “aura,” which is just stupid.
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yes you've referenced this several times. What you're doing is akin to a clemson fan saying "psh, beating saban/bama at the height of their dynasty is nothign. We did it multiple times. Y'all think it's hard or something?" Just because bama beat florida twice that year doesn't make the overall point any less valid.
Florida did not physically intimidate teams.
Auburn scored 30+ on Florida three years in a row running a downhill I with heavy backs like James Bostic and Stephen Davis.
Could Florida score? Absolutely. Did they have guys who made you worry about a hospital trip? No, not really.
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Maybe not. Perhaps they're "scared' of losign by 30+ though as spurrier's opponents tended to do.
Florida also had a tendency to get embarrassed in ways that rarely happened with Johnson’s Miami, Bowden’s FSU, Saban’s Bama.
You usually felt lucky to beat those teams. Florida had more games where they just hit the shite beat out of them.
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so only one specific type of ball elicits fear into opponents, do I have your main point correct here ?
Fear in football stems from physical prowess, not finesse.
Posted on 7/27/26 at 5:09 pm to WG_Dawg
This guy is a fricking idiot and clearly never played competitive sports lol.
Posted on 7/27/26 at 6:30 pm to Globetrotter747
They gave up 17.5ppg for the decade, (11th nationally). Miami, a team you said was way more intimidating and physical on D gave up 16.4, (8th). A 1.1ppg difference in a much weaker conference. You haven’t provided any facts to support the things you say.
This post was edited on 7/27/26 at 6:35 pm
Posted on 7/27/26 at 9:50 pm to tigerfan84
bin Laden kept Florida from winning the SEC that year, but nobody outside of an NFL team was going to beat Miami in 2001.
Posted on 7/27/26 at 9:51 pm to ChiGator
That globetrotter dude has a weird hate boner for 1995 Nebraska. 
Posted on 7/27/26 at 10:52 pm to Paul Allen
Ego?
Posted on 7/27/26 at 11:31 pm to jefforize
for people saying bob stoops.....give me a break.....spurrier won at DUKE, florida, and south carolina.....bowden didnt win many nattys..2 i think and coached a hell of a lot longer....osborne didnt win even 1 until about 20 years after he had been there. paterno won like 1 in 100 years.....there was no nick saban to compare to...while osborne got on a roll in the 90s one was a split with UM.....Spurriers gators were great because of him...he wasnt carried by his coordinators...bob stoops or not...hell how many nattys did stoops get on his own? 1
Posted on 7/27/26 at 11:33 pm to WG_Dawg
side note what if spurrier ever had a real qb? grossman was the closest thing. but after his nfl career wrapped up he wasnt that great.. sure danny was the great college qb but what if peyton manning had gone to florida?? oddly spurrier never really had a great qb
Posted on 7/28/26 at 5:43 am to Madking
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They gave up 17.5ppg for the decade, (11th nationally). Miami, a team you said was way more intimidating and physical on D gave up 16.4, (8th). A 1.1ppg difference in a much weaker conference. You haven’t provided any facts to support the things you say.
Allow me to quote you: “People who witnessed that era can tell you nodody was more feared in college football.”
Not “Florida was feared” or “Florida was one of the most feared.” Florida was the most feared.
This is simply not true
Posted on 7/28/26 at 5:51 am to Globetrotter747
Sure it is
All in the 90s
A national champ
National runner up
5 SEC titles (Would’ve won a 6th if not for probation year 1)
4 SEC titles in a row (still hasn’t been done since)
7 SEC championship appearances
27 wins vs ranked teams (1st in SEC, 2nd nationally)
Best offense in college football
Set then reset every SEC passing record at least twice in the decade
Sorry you’re just wrong and again you bring zero evidence to support your claims.
All in the 90s
A national champ
National runner up
5 SEC titles (Would’ve won a 6th if not for probation year 1)
4 SEC titles in a row (still hasn’t been done since)
7 SEC championship appearances
27 wins vs ranked teams (1st in SEC, 2nd nationally)
Best offense in college football
Set then reset every SEC passing record at least twice in the decade
Sorry you’re just wrong and again you bring zero evidence to support your claims.
This post was edited on 7/28/26 at 5:53 am
Posted on 7/28/26 at 6:05 am to Madking
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All in the 90s
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Sorry you’re just wrong and again you bring zero evidence to support your claims.
FSU: 2 national titles and 7-4-1 record vs. the Gators.
Nebraska: 3 national titles and gave Florida one of the most embarrassing losses in the history of CFB in their lone matchup with the Gators.
Florida was not as successful as these programs or as intimidating.
Period.
Posted on 7/28/26 at 6:21 am to Paul Allen
himself
he was his own enemy
he was his own enemy
Posted on 7/28/26 at 6:34 am to Globetrotter747
Florida played in the SEC, beat more ranked teams than Nebraska and blew FSU out in a national title game.
This post was edited on 7/28/26 at 6:53 am
Posted on 7/28/26 at 7:04 am to Madking
Dabo Swinney on Steve Spurrier. " He's from Pluto and I'm from Mars. We're just different and that's ok."
Steve Spurrier response: " Hell Dabo still thinks there are 9 planets out there."
Will never be another Head Ball Coach
Steve Spurrier response: " Hell Dabo still thinks there are 9 planets out there."
Will never be another Head Ball Coach
Posted on 7/28/26 at 7:08 am to MoarKilometers
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Without using the other position Spurrier played in college, kicker, name the position group with less talent than Spurrier's QBs. I know your retarded arse can't answer it
wtf are you talking about? look at his qbs stats compared to the rest of the country. I dont care what you did in the nfl..."talent" doesn't really matter, look at on the field results and stats
Posted on 7/28/26 at 7:15 am to Cregg
He was one of a kind. Personality and the most intuitive play caller we’ve ever had.
Posted on 7/28/26 at 7:33 am to Globetrotter747
Spurrier never had a playmaker on his team that scared the living shite out of me. Lots of great receivers and backs, but they never had a Percy Harvin or a Peter Warrick or anything like that who could just take over the game against great defenses without any coaching scheme needed. Further shows what a great offensive mind Spurrier was.
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Posted on 7/28/26 at 7:50 am to MoarKilometers
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Terry Dean was literally undrafted. Between the cfl and afl he amassed a whopping 178 passing yards over 3 seasons. That's not on spurrier mismanagement, that's lack of talent.
once again, youre posting stats and talking about what players did in pro football in a thread about college football. just because a player doesn't play well in pro football doesn't mean they werent talented in college football.
Posted on 7/28/26 at 7:59 am to TheMagicMan
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The 98 UF team was better than the 98 FSU team, but at that time playing FSU in Tallahassee was in Spurrier's head. They were just incapable of playing well there. Even his National Title team couldn't beat FSU in Tallahassee.
Florida also had no answer for Peter Warrick. Warrick singlehandedly won that game for FSU.
Posted on 7/28/26 at 8:08 am to JLivermore
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Lots of great receivers and backs, but they never had a Percy Harvin or a Peter Warrick or anything
Jaquez Green/Ike Hilliard/Reidell Anthony seemed pretty formidable. Maybe none of those guys as one individual were as good as harvin or whoever else but it was kinda rare in the mid-90s for a team to have three elite WRs on the field like that, I think.
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