More - Steve Spurrier Quotes

He's a tough, good looking inside linebacker. He looks like those linebackers at Georgia and Tennessee and those other places.

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We're probably going to give him a game ball come Wednesday when the team gets together. Bernard made tackles all over the place and was hustling around, playing his assignments probably as well as anybody on the team.

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To finish second in the SEC East is a wonderful season for our team. Obviously, we were not picked that high. To qualify for a bowl game, that was our big goal for our team. We felt it was achievable and realistic and our guys went out and won seven games to go to the bowl game.

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I said, 'Dang, we've got big, strong, good-looking offensive linemen. How come they're not blocking as well as I hope?' ... I'm trying to figure that out.

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We'll have to see how it all plays out. Certainly Blake is our starter. He threw some errant balls out there today. Blake didn't play his best; he knows that. He's still the starter, but it was encouraging that Cade sort of proved that if something happens he can go play. We thought he would be. We'll try to get Cade as ready as possible. He's definitely second right now.

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 Balls

Probably one or two freshmen will get the chance to play for us this year.

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I said, 'Dang, we've got big, strong, good-looking offensive linemen. How come they're not blocking as well as I hope?' ... I'm trying to figure that out.

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It is embarrassing and I apologize because this is a guy we recruited. When you recruit one and they are troublemakers, or appear to be, it makes you feel bad, so we have to do a better job of recruiting the right kind of kids. We're going to mess up occasionally, like we did with this one guy.

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The time I went there, they weren't near the team they are now. A different environment, completely different, different team, different head coach.

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 Environment

Coaches go out with a little bit of strut in their step instead of hanging their heads down if they get clobbered.

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