If you think Steve Spurrier has lost his magic touch, consider that on one Saturday in Oxford, Miss., he turned six months of stupidity into pure genius. Amazing, isn’t it? One of the great minds in the history of college football knows what he is doing, after all.
The more we see of Stephen Garcia as South Carolina's quarterback, the more we see the future of Steve Spurrier's offense.
There is no doubting a smile will cross Richard Johnson's face soon when the check for $230,000 from the South Carolina athletics department rolls into the Wofford College bank account. Still, Johnson, Wofford's athletics director, says Saturday's game at South Carolina is not all about the money.
A QUARTERBACK MUST have some mighty thick skin to play for Steve Spurrier. One would think Spurrier had settled on Chris Smelley for the remainder of the season, based solely on the quarterback’s 23-of-39 passing for 271 yards and a touchdown against Georgia. Yet Spurrier gave anything but a ringing endorsement of Smelley at Tuesday’s weekly media gathering.
Ron Morris is a columnist for The State newspaper. He has won numerous national and state awards for his writing, but is most known for once counting the number of times a ball bounced in a college basketball game, hitchhiking across the country and running one marathon.
Despite rumors to the contrary, Ron has no allegiance to either USC or Clemson - he graduated from UNC Charlotte.
