So I figured I'd try to coach some different ball plays, and instead of poor-mouthing my team, I'd try to build it up to the point where the players think, Coach believes we're pretty good by golly, let's go prove it."įive quarterbacks competed for the starting job in Spurrier's first spring. I can't outwork anybody and I can't coach the off-tackle play better than anybody else. Price of Sports Illustrated in 1995, "you have to do it the way everybody does it and do it a lot better - or you have to do it differently. "If you want to be successful," Spurrier told S.L. Coach Galen Hall had paid a player and a few assistants money that the NCAA manual said he shouldn't. He took over a Florida team that had been wracked not by losing, but by scandal. We can't control the line of scrimmage, so we're reduced to throwing over it.Īnd then the 44-year-old Spurrier returned to his alma mater, where he had won the 1966 Heisman Trophy as a quarterback (he threw for 2,012 yards that season, by the way). It was an admission of weakness in an old-school league. Passing was what you did because you couldn't run. LSU led the league in passing offense, averaging 258.1 yards per game.įor all of the 1980s, Vanderbilt led the league in passing offense, averaging 228 yards per game. To understand the effect that Steve Spurrier had on Southeastern Conference football, you have to go back to 1989, the year before he arrived. Steve Spurrier's Fun 'n' Gun brought football evolution to the SECĬollege Football, Florida Gators, South Carolina Gamecocks And however he can do it, you have to be able to bring those skill sets out.You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browser There are still going to be traditionalists who look for certain things, but really you are looking for a guy who can win games. So yeah, it is definitely going to change how people look at the position. He is the winningest quarterback at this time in his career. "He is playing really well, playing at a high level. So now it has started to change because of how he plays. But that is the first conversation that happened. We took him in the third round, which we felt like we were kind of pushing the envelope to get him there. "I think that when a lot of people looked at it before they just looked at that number, 5-10 and a half, and that knocked him down, including us. "I think he is changing the conversation about it," Seahawks offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell said. With more and more quarterbacks, such as Oregon Heisman Trophy winner Marcus Mariota, playing exclusively in the shotgun and running a spread option offense, the league may have to change the way it evaluates the potential for success at the next level. If the Seahawks beat the Patriots in Super Bowl XLIX on Sunday, Wilson will become the first quarterback to win back-to-back NFL titles in 10 years since the feat was accomplished by Tom Brady, everybody's pocket passing prototype. It may also be time for the NFL to surrender its long-held notions that a vertically challenged, run-and-gun passer can't be considered a franchise quarterback.
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