The Florida Gators opened their season in very underwhelming fashion over the weekend, losing 41-17 at home to their in-state foe, the Miami Hurricanes.
The game saw Miami quarterback Cameron Ward throw for 385 yards and three touchdowns in the victory. Ward noted after the game that Gators fans weren’t loud enough to faze him.
Things got even worse for Florida, as Steve Spurrier, who won a school-record 122 games and a national championship during his time coaching the program, joined Pat Dooley on Another Dooley Noted Podcast this week and expressed his concern that no one on the Florida coaching staff seemed to get mad during the blowout loss.
“We need one of our coaches to get mad. I don’t know if any of them are capable, but I’d love to see one of them on the sideline throw his sheet down, or his headset, or do something. Somebody, somebody get mad.” Spurrier told Dooley, via On3.
Spurrier did, however, note that there’s an importance in finding a balance between calm and anger, using the 1990s Nebraska Cornhuskers teams as an example.
“Coach [Tom] Osborne in Nebraska, one of the great coaches of all time… he was always very calm, but he had some fireball assistants I learned later. Their defensive coordinator, those guys that clobbered us in that ’95 game, their defensive coach got them fired up on the sideline every game. He was a fireball and offense had one or two guys also. So if the head coach is not a fireball, you got to have somebody on that staff.”
Florida will look to get back on track this Saturday when they host the Samford Bulldogs.
[On3]
