Carolina Calls: End Of Regular Season Edition

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO) — South Carolina head football coach Steve Spurrier held his weekly call-in show Thursday night at Wild Wing Cafe in downtown Columbia.

The call-in show marks the end of the regular season for the Gamecocks. 

Notes:

-Spurrier said the team would like to be practicing this week for the SEC Championship but has to give credit to Missouri for not losing after their loss to South Carolina. “I guess if we want to win the division we have to beat everyone,” said Spurrier.

-He said he does not have a favorite team in the SEC Championship. He likes both coaches and both teams.

-During the show, Spurrier gave a “5-peat” game ball to a woman who has attended all of his call-in shows at Wild Wing Cafe.

-Spurrier said the team is mostly healthy and he thinks it is because they try to practice carefully. 

-Confirmed that Chaz Elder wouldn’t play this week or next week if there was a game due to a concussion. He said Elder should be available for the bowl game.

-He said he really liked the fans on Saturday and credits them for helping the Gamecocks extend the nation’s longest home win-streak to 18.

-Spurrier took advice from a caller last week, to run hard play-action against Clemson.  It worked, so Spurrier thanked the guy.

-The 52 total touchdowns this year are the second-most in the Spurrier Era. USC had 55 touchdowns in 2010.

-Spurrier said he would be happy with either Outback, Capital One or Cotton Bowl. “I said earlier this week that the Cotton Bowl would be nice, but I’d like to point out it was 82 degrees in Orlando today and 25 degrees in Dallas,” said Spurrier. 

-He said he knows that college football  is not the fairest sport in the world, which is why South Carolina is unlikely to go to to BCS bowl despite being No. 8 in the BCS.

-Todd Ellis joked that the USC Board of Trustees offered Spurrier a 23-year extension to even up the series against Clemson.  “I don’t know if we can beat them (Clemson) 23 years in a row… but at the pace we’re going, who knows?” – Steve Spurrier