Steve Spurrier is going back to Florida

Even though he finished his coaching career at South Carolina, when I think of Steve Spurrier, I will always picture him at Florida, pacing the sidelines and tossing his visor to the ground. That’s why it’s so appropriate that Spurrier is headed back to Gainesville to be the Ambassador and Consultant for the Florida Athletic Department. Florida Athletic Director Jeremy Foley announced the news via press release this morning.

“It’s a great day for the Gator Nation to be able to welcome Coach Spurrier back home,” Foley said. “He has served as a tremendous ambassador to the University and the athletic department for 50-plus years and it’s only fitting that at this point in his career, he is back in Gainesville. Being a Gator has always meant so much to Coach Spurrier, but it means just as much to us have him come home.”

Spurrier won a Heisman Trophy at Florida as a player in 1966 and took the Gators to a National Title thirty years later as a coach. Gainesville is also where he met his wife, Jerri, fifty years ago.

Even though he used to run the score up on UK back in the day, I can’t help but like Spurrier now. Do we think part of his new role will be teaching athletes the merits of “Suns out, guns out”?