From the “Al Davis Studios,” here we go…
Wow, that’s a strange Tuesday
South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier unloaded Tuesday on a newspaper columnist, saying he was not going to participate in interviews that the columnist was participating in. Spurrier granted one-on-one interviews with TV stations and did some other interviews but refused to speak with Ron Morris of The State because the dude is negative and because something the guy wrote six months-plus ago was “untrue,” and “completely fabricated,” according to the Ol’ Ball Coach.
Now if that seems somewhat bizarre for a guy that has a top-15 team and is viewed – at least from the outside – as being among the most entertaining and jovial college football coaches around. (That said, college football coaches and “jovial” used together in terms of media relations is about as common as sane and “Jersey Shore” fans.)
The whole scene made a little more sense about 30 minutes later when longtime USC quarterback and suspendee Stephen Garcia was dismissed from the Gamecocks program for failing a urine test.