On a recent moment at UF that nearly made him cry:

“I was getting a workout on the treadmill, bike and so forth. One of the players came by. I said, ‘Good luck Saturday, man, have a good one.’ He sort of said, ‘Coach, we need you here.’ I almost started crying. I said, ‘You guys will be alright, go get ‘em.’”

Offensively, no, I don’t think [we were good], but you know, he really didn’t run the offense,” Spurrier added. “Coach [Doug] Nussmeier runs the offense and he tries as hard as he can to run a good offense.”

“The offense we ran in the 90s, that’s not what they do here now,” Spurrier said. “People always say, ‘Well, Coach Spurrier, why don’t you give them some ball plays?’ I say, ‘Listen, every play that we ran in the ’90s is there on video at the University of Florida. If they want to go back and watch Danny Wuerffel and Shane Matthews throw all those touchdown passes — we led the nation in touchdown passes through the 90s, more than any other school — it’s all on tape there. Go back and watch it.”

“They don’t do that. Coaches coach what they know, and they coach how they’re comfortable coaching. And the way we coach at Florida now is not the way we coached back then,” Spurrier noted. “I’m not saying ours was a whole lot better — maybe it was — but they’re trying the best they can to coach what they know. It was hard for me to try to give some positive ball plays here and there.”

“Scott Stricklin, our AD, he’s well-connected around the country, and I believe we’ll have an excellent coach here in 3-4 weeks. … The coach is with his team now. The coach we’re going to hire is probably – I would almost 100 percent say – is coaching his team today, this weekend and through the end of the season and maybe through the bowl game.” “Florida is going to be OK. We’re behind a little bit now, and I sort of wish the attitude is, ‘Hey, we are behind!’ … We’ll get a good coach in here. But do I miss being on the sideline with [my Florida star players]? Oh, sure! … We’re going to get a good coach in here. The Gators have got to be ready to really get behind the next guy. And hopefully we bring in a guy who is proven, he’s proven he’s done some good stuff, maybe at other places. And if he’s done good stuff at other places, he’ll do real

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