Steve Spurrier has spent his life scoring points and taking shots at opponents. The Old Ball Coach turned Florida into a college football force, and pissed off a lot of people along the way. He has a way of turning a seemingly straightforward statement into a passive-aggressive barb, and that has not changed since he stepped away from the sidelines.
It took Kentucky almost 20 tries before the Wildcats finally defeated Spurrier in 2010. One loss to the Wildcats didn’t force Spurrier to pull any punches. After a 54-3 blowout win over Kentucky in 2011, Spurrier said, “Kentucky has a heck of a punter, I know that.”
Kentucky forced Spurrier into early retirement. The Wildcats beat South Carolina in consecutive seasons. Four weeks after a 26-22 defeat at Williams-Brice Stadium, Spurrier abruptly announced he was stepping away from the program.
The Old Ball Coach is spending his retirement life as an advisor for the Florida Gators. He can’t stay away from a microphone, speaking regularly on Pat Dooley’s podcast.
During this week’s show, Kentucky was a topic of conversation. The Wildcats just successfully flipped wide receiver Denairius Gray from Auburn, who was the third four-star talent Hugh Freeze lost in ten days.
“Kentucky fans are pointing out that their coach doesn’t play golf,” Pat Dooley pointed out on Another Dooley Noted Podcast.
“Kentucky?” Spurrier interjected. “They don’t have a lot of wins to brag about right now.”
I feel partially to blame for this stray from the Old Ball Coach. In late June, AL.com took a closer look at Hugh Freeze’s golf game following the rash of decommitments and found that Freeze was logging more scores than any other coach in the SEC. They also pulled Mark Stoops’ scores from Lexington Country Club, where he only played two 18-hole rounds in the month of May. It led me to make a quip, “Mark Stoops is too motivated to play golf.” Deputy Doofus ran with it, and now the joke has entered Spurrier’s crosshairs.
Let Spurrier make all the jokes he wants from the sidelines. It’s only going to give Mark Stoops one more reason to be motivated ahead of the 2025 season.
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