OT: Florida to rename field to honor Steve Spurrier
It will now apparently be known as "Steve Spurrier Field at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium"
Link to the official announcement: http://floridagators.com/news/2016/6/9/football-florida-field-to-bear-s…
This is a really cool thing, I think. Honoring their best player and best coach ever like that, despite this breaking the "don't build statues of the living" rule.
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The ole ball coach for South Carolina, nice!
The Urban Meyer Urinal at the Will Muschamp Restrooms at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium.
This one?
I have had to look at that stadium/seat at least 15 times over the last 30 years and never thought, what a toilet. I feel bad and should, it looks more like a toilet seat than a toilet seat. Horse shoe my ass, that is clearly a toilet seat they call it a horse shoe just to make Ohilo people try and forget it looks so much like a toilet. Its no wonder their shitting in coolers they don't remind them of their stadium.
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It would be the Urban Meyer urinal in the Ron Zook bathroom, Muschamp would have a plaque by the shitter...... X that, it would be his name in sharpie above the shitter
Allegedly.
Don't forget the Aaron Rodriguez urinal cakes.
Well based on the Gators last game, they reverted back to being an also ran program....
Bout time that school did something to show they're serious about good coaching.
This is actually a pretty cool gesture and a fitting tribute to their winningest coach and one of the best players they ever had as well.
I would like to see some real life Hatin' Ass Spurrier at the actual dedication if there is one, but still a very cool move indeed by Florida.
Great idea; stupid name. Full name is Steve Spurrier-Florida Field at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium
Can't wait for the Tim Tebow Press Box at Steve Spurrier-Florida Field at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium
Meh can't be worse than our official football coach title.
I'm with you on this. Love Spurrier - he was/is great for college football. Also a big fan of his hatred for Tennessee. But the name.....can you have both "field" and "stadium" in the same name?
Ol Ball Coach used to talk a lot of trash. One might not always agree with his views but he always spoke his mind. Well deserved.
t used to be Florida Field at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium.
There are plenty of schools that have the field and the stadium named, but you don't say them together.
Ha!
Didn't Florida make some sort of statue that recreated Tebow's press conference apology for losing to Ole Miss? I remember a strong eye roll when I read about that.
It was pretty much a given that Florida would hoonr Spurrier once he finally retired. He put them on the map as a player and as a coach. While his sense of humor was quite acerbic to rivals, he got through an entire coaching career with no controversy in his personal life or in how he ran his programs.
A great honor for someone who richly deserves it. Best of all, he is alive to enjoy it.
Whenever I hear or read Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, I picture Benny Hill.
I will admit to not liking Steve Suppior for a long time when he was coaching UF. Didn't like the way he ran it up on Little Sisters of the Poor every non-conf game. Thought he was brash and smarmy. And laughed along with everyone else when he made some gold-standard remark.
Then at South Carolina, I began to like what he was doing. Made them a respectable team, and did it cleanly. While still tweaking rivals (esp UTenn) with fantastic gold-standard remarks.
Now with JMFH running things in Ann Arbor, I see the similarities. And I see, clearly, why the two are friends. Looking back on his career, he did it with a class I didn't recognize - much like Harbaugh is doing it with a class most people don't recognize now.
Congratulations to Steve Spurrier on an honor well-earned! I look forward to him being at the next Signing of the Stars, too!
why he left Florida. Had it all, in a perfect situation for him.
Weird to think that if Spurrier never leaves Floida, Meyer ends up at Notre Dame.
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child sexual abuse apologists at penn state to get their field renamed after paterno.
Oh, they are far ahead of that... I read an article the other day that a couple of the JoePa sheeple over there want to replace his statue with not 1 but 2 statues. One will reside in PA and the other statue will travel (to away games?).
They never took JoePa's name off the library either I believe.
The yard lines should consist of Spurrier quotes.