Imagine a Florida football coach having won 10 SEC titles, three or four national championships and maybe more conference games than even Bear Bryant.
It could have happened. All Steve Spurrier had to do was stay home for 10 more seasons.
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Spurrier prompted a lot of “what if?” scenarios recently when he revealed on the “Paul Finebaum Show” on SEC Network last week that he wished now he hadn’t left Florida after the 2001 season.
“He’s our Bear Bryant, our Bud Wilkinson (Oklahoma),” Florida athletic director Jeremy Foley told me. “He’s the guy who got it going, and we became one of the top programs in the country.