* Former Southern California and South Carolina athletic director Mike McGee, a former Outland Trophy winner at Duke who hired Lou Holtz and
Steve Spurrier to lead Gamecocks football, died Friday.
To form what is called the "One SC Fund," SCDC and other state agencies joined well-known celebrities from the state: Stephen Colbert; Darius Rucker;
Steve Spurrier, the former University of South Carolina football coach; Dabo Swinney, the Clemson University football coach; and Governor Nikki Haley.
SAN ANTONIO -
Steve Spurrier, never shy about taunting a rival, had a great line about Tennessee during his time as the coach at Florida.
The 123 victories in his first 14 years ranks eighth all-time and puts him in the company of coaching legends such as Barry Switzer (137), Tom Osborne (137),
Steve Spurrier (132), Joe Paterno (131), LaVell Edwards (129), Amos Alonzo Stagg (128), and Bud Wilkerson (124).
He is not the first college football coach to go down this road, as coaches such as South Carolina's
Steve Spurrier. Ohio State's Urban Meyer and many more have obtained trademarks on their own names for the purpose of selling merchandise.
A midseason tiff with coach
Steve Spurrier -- Clowney pulled himself out of the Kentucky game with a rib muscle strain without following proper protocol -- intensified questions about Clowney's work habits and going hard every play.
Nick Saban, Alabama $5.3 million Les Miles, LSU $3.7 million
Steve Spurrier, South Carolina $3.5 million Bret Bielema, Arkansas $3.2 million James Franklin, Vanderbilt $3.0 million * Butch Jones, Tennessee $2.9 million Mark Richt, Georgia $2.8 million Gary Pinkel, Missouri $2.7 million Dan Mullen, Mississippi State $2.6 million Will Muschamp, Florida $2.4 million Kevin Sumlin, Texas A&M $2.4 million Gus Malzahn, Auburn $2.3 million Mark Stoops, Kentucky $2.2 million Hugh Freeze, Ole Miss $2.0 million * Based on press reports.
The building was dedicated before a crowd of more than 400 spectators from across the state on October 8, 1966, the attendance boosted, Cassedy noted, because it was the morning of the Florida State University-University of Florida football game when the Gators, led by quarterback
Steve Spurrier, won 22-19.
Steve Spurrier, Florida football coach, in 1991, telling Gators fans that a fire at Auburn's football dorm had destroyed twenty books: "But the real tragedy was that fifteen hadn't been colored yet."