Spurrier must be thinking where was the 12 team playoff when I coached

And the chickens have come home to roost now....it was a decision that is costing FSU about $25M a year right now. A very happy ending indeed!

That's why you don't let your football coach exclusively make business decisions like this. Bobby Dodd did the same thing in the mid-60's when he withdrew GaTech from the SEC in part due to greed wanting to play certain other SEC schools exclusively in Atlanta. What a huge lack of foresight and failure on their part.

 

Agree about Bobby B certainly.
But about Bobby Dodd- I think the Chick Graning/ Darwin Holt incident had something to do with it.
I think Dodd rightly saw that the Bama schools ran the SEC.
However, getting out of the SEC was a poor decision indeed.
And South Carolina getting out of the ACC was idiocy on top of spite- just dumb x 1000. (More due to b-ball.)

To put a more overall spin on things- coaches are short term thinkers.
So they should in no way be involved in such major decisions.
But they are also the king of the palace, so they hold a lot of sway.

 

Definitely it factored, but I think the biggest factor was not wanting to travel to play Ole Miss and Miss St and only wanting to play them at home...IOW, greed. We see how the SEC is run out of B'ham too, but so far have decided not to cut our nose off to spite our face. I think Dodd had some idea that Ga Tech would be the Southern Notre Dame....I think they had the one of the biggest stadiums in the South at that time

True, I think Dodd was also AD which wasn't too uncommon until more recently.

 

I don't want to interrupt a good Bowden bashing but...the only thing SOS is thinking about is how to maximize Happy Hour prices at his restaurant and pushing more appetizers. He is Gator but he doesn't go to bed at night worrying about it.

 

I doubt he cares too much about money from a restaurant either. If guess hes fairly financially set. Spurriers is like a toy.

 

I'm not old enough to remember GA Tech in the SEC or what went on, and I don't want this to sound like Too Hot, but since it was the early 60's, could some of the reason he didn't want to go to Mississippi was because of racism? Like I said, I don't know the answer to that question.

 

Probably but pretty sure S Car is happy with the results. And they don't have to have Clemmons in their conference.

 

Now you’ve done it!

 

I seriously doubt he even worries about that. He once said that he'd made way more with his business investments over in Crescent Beach that Jimmy Sexton helped him with than he ever did coaching football. I'm pretty sure he's pretty well set and he doesn't strike me as someone that lives beyond their means.

 

I kinda doubt that was involved in their thinking, but truthfully, I just don't know. When did Ga Tech integrate their sports teams?

 

Integrated the school in 61 and the first black football player was 69. I cheated and had to look it up.

 

Nice job...I wasn't going to.

 

I agree with @Distant Gator in that UF gets at least 1 (perhaps 2) more NCs. You guys remember when we called them MNCs?

 

My 2 Waterford Cyrstal footballs don't say "MNC"

 

I'm slightly bummed when I break a wine glass I cannot imagine breaking an entire football