USC Players Respond To Garcia’s Dismissal

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO) — Steve Spurrier isn’t eager to talk about a past he’d rather forget. For the second straight day, the Ball Coach avoided making comments in front of TV cameras about Stephen Garcia’s recent dismissal from the USC football team. Spurrier did make his first public comments about the Garcia situation during a required SEC teleconference Wednesday. Spurrier said he wished Garcia would’ve stayed at USC and finished his career as a Gamecock. The Ball Coach admitted he knew Garcia would be kicked off the team Monday night. Spurrier denied he avoided his weekly press conference the next day because of this. At his weekly press conference Tuesday, Spurrier said he would not answer questions like normal with The State columnist Ron Morris in the room. The Ball Coach brought up a March article in which Morris said Spurrier “poached” Bruce Ellington off the USC basketball team. Spurrier said answering questions in a press conference with Morris in attendance only fed Morris’s negative articles on Gamecock football. Morris stayed in the press conference room and Spurrier did not do his weekly Q and A session but answered questions with media in other rooms. After Wednesday night’s practice, USC players were left to answer questions about Garcia’s exit from the team.