Spurrier gets new contract extension from South Carolina

After a 10-2 season that included a victories over hated rivals Clemson and Georgia, the South Carolina Gamecocks have given a two-year contract extension to College Football’s greatest golfing football coach, Steve Spurrier through the 2017 season. Unlike Les Miles’ deal with LSU, Spurrier’s deal with South Carolina did not see a salary raiseĀ – although he’s going to earn $3.3m in 2013, which is quite handy. He should be able to buy some drinks for Stephen Garcia with that… We’re almost surprised that Spurrier won’t pass comment on the radio about his extension: “Well, if Les Miles agent hadn’t called that website, perhaps he wouldn’t have gotten a raise at all….” There were some great stories/remarks doing the rounds about

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SEC Championship Game: A new respect for Richt

It took a couple of days for the fog to clear after quite the weekend in Atlanta for the SEC Football Blog and best friend Alex Ferguson, who’s a writer for Sky Sports.com in the UK. To cut a long story short, we met in Athens, Ga. for a Bulldogs game, drank shots together, and have been corresponding ever since. Anyway, we’ve put together this blog, and he sometimes corresponds. When he’s not, you know, being a journalist. Anyway, you all know what happened in the SEC Championship Game: It was one of the best games we’ve ever seen. The sad thing about classics like this – and there are always classics in the SEC season – is that someone

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