SEC Football: Steve Spurrier is STILL Clowning

Steve Spurrier may be retired, but he’s still got plenty of zingers in him after nearly 25 years of SEC football.

Love him or hate him, Stever Spurrier was the Conor McGregor of SEC football coaches when it came to smack talk.  While he may have walked away from the game, he’s obviously going to continue throwing out zingers — intended and not.

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First, after over a decade at both Florida and South Carolina, Spurrier said he believes LSU and Georgia are the two best coaching jobs in the SEC.  I’m admittedly not a fan of either, but you would be hard pressed to come up with an argument against him there.  He explained it this way as a guest on the Paul Finebaum show:

What are the best two jobs in the SEC? I think Georgia and LSU are basically the best two.  Of course, Nick Saban has made Alabama the best right now. But as far as recruiting advantages, LSU doesn’t have much competition in their state, and Georgia pretty much should own their state there. 

So you’ve got elite recruiting, big paychecks and not the pressure cooker that is Tuscaloosa, Alabama?  Sounds like a job Spurrier would have loved to have had.  Of course fans of Florida and South Carolina probably got their feelings hurt.  But he wasn’t done yet.

After giving credit to Saban for making Alabama the best job in SEC football currently, he had to take a few jabs at The Unviersity of Alabama.

The Crimson Tide do indeed claim 16 National Championships and many national sports brands often recognize them as a 16-time champion.  While other schools claim questionable championships, Alabama has somehow managed to convince most of the sports world that their claim is legit.

Spurrier isn’t lying, though.  He’s referring to the claimed 1942 National Championship (awarded by the now defunct Houlgate System).  That year Alabama went 9-2 and finished third in the SEC.  I know Nick Saban has won a National Championship without winning the SEC football title, but who knew Bear did it first?  It seems Saban can’t ever escape Bear’s shadow.

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The NCAA recognizes 13 National Championships for Alabama by the way.  It really does make you wonder what’s up with a football program that feels the need to “enhance” such an already rich football history.