Steve Spurrier reveals the horrifying moment he realized his coaching career was near an end ·

02 Jan 2025, 00:00

Former Florida and South Carolina head coach Steve Spurrier is releasing an autobiography soon called Head Ball Coach: My Life in Football. In it there are sure to be some awesome stories and tales of his legendary quips and how he thought of them as well as ways to regularly beat his opponents.

There's a particularly depressing anecdote from the book though that Josh Kendall from The State shared and it's about the season when Spurrier knew things were going downhill for him. In the book he talks about going to LSU and the difference between when he was doing it at Florida and then at South Carolina.

"When I was coaching at Florida and we came to LSU every other year, they would be shooting birds at us, throwing stuff at the bus and yelling, 'Arrogant, cocky Spurrier, run up the score!' " Spurrier told his coaches. "And now they are really nice to us because they know they are going to kick our (behind) today."

However, it wasn't until later that season in November that Spurrier truly realized that he was getting too old for coaching and had a harrowing experience that gave him his last clue. After a particularly bad showing against Tennessee Spurrier left the post-game press conference early without saying a word and later that week he had problems sleeping and remembering the code for his locker and phone numbers, he reveals in the book.

The team's psychologist diagnosed Spurrier with "acute stress disorder" and gave him sleeping pills, Spurrier writes. That's got to be a scary experience for someone at his advanced age and shows just how stressful those last couple seasons were in Columbia. The book will be almost 300 pages and involves everything from Spurrier's life up until his resignation at South Carolina.

[h/t The State]

Steve Spurrier reveals the horrifying moment he realized his coaching career was near an end

Former Florida and South Carolina head coach Steve Spurrier is releasing an autobiography soon calledHead Ball Coach: My Life in Football.In it there are sure to be some awesome stories and tales of his legendary quips and how he thought of them as well as ways to regularly beat his opponents.

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