Well, this is certainly interesting. Former Florida Gator and South Carolina head coach Steve Spurrier, who sadly isn't participating in SEC Media Days this year, just revealed some huge news regarding his recruitment process. Spurrier went to Florida, as we all know, but speaking with the SEC Network's Paul Finebaum, Spurrier revealed that if the National Signing Day we all know today was in place back when Spurrier was a recruit, he probably would have ended up at Ole Miss instead of Florida.
"If they had national signing day back then like they do now I probably would have went to Ole Miss" -Steve Spurrier pic.twitter.com/LNLbcgpPCE
— Paul Finebaum (@finebaum) July 11, 2016
The reason for this, Spurrier said, was because Florida didn't start recruiting him until about a month before the Signing Day date we know today — usually the first Wednesday of February.
"Florida didn't recruit me until January (of my senior year in high school), Spurrier said via 247Sports. "I probably would have went to Ole Miss if they had signing day like they do now."
Imagine how different things would have been different if Spurrier would have gone to Oxford, Ms. instead of Gainesville, Fla. — he maybe wouldn't have ended up Florida's head coach in 1989 after his stint as Duke's head coach from 1987-89, as he may have wanted to remain at Duke or take another job elsewhere not having any alma mater ties to Florida when that vacancy opened. If he had gone to Ole Miss, their next head coach vacancy around this time wasn't until 1993, after Billy Brewer's program was hit with a slew of NCAA violations, and he was fired.
Things would probably be completely different with both Spurrier's coaching career and the state of Florida's and South Carolina's programs — and possibly others if the Head Ball Coach had gone to Ole Miss. The college football landscape could have looked completely different, quite honestly, depending on if Spurrier had built a powerhouse program like he did at Florida somewhere else. Personally, I don't want to imagine how different things would be if he hadn't ended up at Florida, so let's all thank the football gods that Spurrier ended up where he did.
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