CHEERS! by the numbers

The vital statistics on football coach Steve Spurrier are impressive: an astounding coaching career record of 178 wins, 59 losses, and 2 ties. We’ll tell you all about USC’s new head coach in the August edition of Carolinian, but for now take a quick look at Spurrier “by the numbers.”

• 3 college head coaching positions
  (Duke, Florida, and South Carolina)
• 5 SEC Coach of the Year awards
  (1990, 1991, 1994, 1995, and 1996)
• 2 ACC Coach of the Year awards
  (1988 and 1989)
• 9 consecutive January bowl games
  (the only SEC coach to do so)
• 11 consecutive bowl games