People understood Steve Spurrier’s primary gift. He was a tremendous football coach. What they didn’t always understand as well is that he had a second, equally prodigious gift, and that was he could piss people off like no one else.
It became more clear at Florida than it was at Duke. Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Florida State and Miami were just counting the days until they could lay a major whipping on him. Those games always sold out.
That was Spurrier. No one could drive people out of their minds like him and, when it comes to competition, much less selling tickets.