Spurrier slams Columbia writer

Spurrier was being a self-important dick. End of story.

 

Roger that, Stitch.

 

Judging from my experience with college football, there's no way the fan site guys would leave.

 

I was in the post-game presser when Spurrier went off on Larry Guest -- called Guest a "sad, little fat man" twice -- and to this day it is one of the crazier things I have ever seen. Had YouTube been around back then, it would have blown up Gundy-style in a hurry.

Bianchi's take is dead-on, though Spurrier is far from alone in his thin-skinned attitude. A certain diminuitive ballcoach in Tuscaloosa crows that he never reads anything that is written about his club -- but manages to get all riled up when he catches wind of something (by osmosis, evidently) that doesn't jibe with his rhetoric.

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Considering that most coaches would only be happy if columnists gave them virtual fellatio every week (such as the aforementioned Dooley), I think Bianchi's take is pretty spot on.

 

I would argue that if a columnist isn't getting under the skin of the local coaches, he's not doing his job very well.

 

Was Guest there when Spurrier made the comment? I could very well be wrong, but the version of the story I heard was that Guest was not there at the time.