STEVE SPURRIER IS NOT A GOOD PERSON

Remember Danny Wuerffel? He was on the Packers in 2000, but when I think of him, I think of the 1996 Heisman Trophy winning Wuerffel. At Florida, he played alongside the likes of Fred Taylor, Reidel Anthony, Ike Hilliard, and Jacquez Green, who were all great collegiate players in their own right. They won the national championship the year that Wuerffel won the Heisman. And they did it under Steve Spurrier. I rooted for Florida in those years; I loved the excitement of Spurrier's "Run 'N Gun" offense.
After twelve seasons at Florida, winning seven SEC championships and finishing in the top 10 nine times, he had compiled a winning percentage of .817. That meant he should go to the NFL, right? WRONG. But he did anyway. He signed the most lucrative coaching contract in the history of the league in 2002 with the Redskins (5 years $25 million). And that worked out very well for him. He went 12-20 in his two seasons before resigning, and lost his final three games by a combined score of 85-31. He decided a return to the college ranks would be in his best interest, and like Nick Saban has been so publicly criticized for, he returned to the SEC he once abandoned, but this time with another team, South Carolina.

I hate that. It's one thing in the NFL, where everything is a business, if a player or coach leaves one team for its rival. Unless there was a longtime relationship with the first team ::cough cough:: Brett Favre Minnesota Vikings ::cough cough::. But as much as the college game has turned into a business, you're still working with kids, and the amount of betrayal and lack of commitment by Spurrier and Saban does not set a good examples for the kids they are supposed to be setting in the right direction in life.
So why am I ranting about Steve Spurrier? Because now he brought a Packer into his miserable attempt at being a part of, AND respecting, the game of football. Apparently the Ol' Ball Coach wants to unretire former Packers star receiver Sterling Sharpe's number 2. Sharpe is one of FOUR numbers retired by the Gamecocks, and apparently there aren't like 95 other numbers between 1 and 99 that his players can wear. It's not like South Carolina is anything like the Yankees where every other freaking number is retired. There are 95 other choices Steve. When a number is retired, it is retired. And Sterling does not want that to change, understandably so.

Apparently Spurrier promised the number to a recruit and told the kid and all of his high school coaches that Sterling was fine with him wearing the number. Not so much Steve. You had nothing to do with Sterling's number being retired, you have never had anything to do with him during his time in Columbia, so who are you to try to take that honor away from him? You are nobody Mr. Spurrier. Especially since your teams in your first four years at SC (28 wins, 22 losses) have been mediocre at best. I hope your struggles continue, and I can only feel bad for the student athletes you are in charge of for being sucked into your way of teaching and being a role model.