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END OF AN ERA Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote, "It's not true that life is one damn thing
after another; it's one damn thing over and over..." That's apparently how
Coach Steve Spurrier felt
when he decided that 12 years as the Gators' head football coach was enough,
and officially announced his resignation on January 4th, 2002.
In an exclusive interview with Gainesville Sun columnist Pat Dooley about why
he is resigning, the Gator head ball coach expressed frustration about "the
years of doing that over and over", namely, finishing near the top year after
year during the last five years of his tenure without achieving the spectacular
results of his first seven years, during which he won five SEC championships and a national championship
in 1996.
During the next five seasons, he won only one SEC championship, despite winning
10 or more games four times, and saw his best chance of winning another national
championship dashed by an underdog Tennessee team in the Swamp in the
final game of the 2001 regular season, after being ranked # 1 in the nation
earlier in the year.
Spurrier once wrote, "winning championships never gets old." But not winning
them does.
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And on that note, GatorBytes called it a wrap for
the Scoreboard. The Scoreboard after all was about
Spurrier, the legend and the quest to succeed Alabama's legendary Paul
"Bear" Bryant as the greatest football coach in SEC
history. Now that the leading protagonist of the Scoreboard has exited, it's
time for GatorBytes to take a bow and exit, too. The ol' ball coach may be
gone to seek his fortune elsewhere, but the memories of the last three years
of the Golden Age of Gator Football are still here, preserved in the Scoreboard
Archives. For more on Spurrier and his rivals, including Bobby
Bowden, Phil Fulmer and others, visit the new Sunshine State
Scoreboard
Bookstore.
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