Steve Spurrier: Back at South Carolina in 2015
Steve Spurrier is going to be back on the sidelines in 2015.
Spurrier told The State that he'd be returning to coach the Gamecocks. After a season that didn't come close to living up to preseason expectations, there was wonder if Spurrier wouldn't return next season.
“I’m in. I’m in,” Spurrier said. “We had some down times and some of this, that and the other, but we’ve got a lot of good players on the way.”
South Carolina was ranked in the top 10 to start the year but was blown out at home by Texas A&M in the first game of the season. From then, the Gamecocks went 6-5 on the way to a .500 record. In 2014, South Carolina lost to Clemson for the first time since 2008 and also lost to Tennessee and Kentucky.
After the Tennessee loss, which came at home, Spurrier went into his press conference, said a few remarks and got up without taking questions. The press conference from the normally quotable coach was the one that helped raise the wonders about his future as South Carolina's coach.
Will 2015 be his last season? Well, don't start the the speculation about that just yet.
“Give me two or three more,” Spurrier, who is 70 in April, told the State. “I used to say four or five, now I’m down to two or three. I mean, I could get in a car wreck, but I’m definitely planning on being back.”
The good players on the way Spurrier references are part of the No. 5 recruiting class in the country according to Rivals. While South Carolina doesn't have any five-star recruits committed for 2015, the team has 14 four-star and 13 three-star players on its recruiting list.
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