Revisiting Spurrier

Wow. I’ve gotten a lot of comments that I haven’t allowed to be posted because they appear to contain information that is from a pay site. But I do want to address the situation they bring up.

Let me make this much clear: If you were being told that Spurrier was close to being signed, sealed and delivered as Texas A&M’s next coach, you were lied to. That’s the plain and simple truth. LIES. I don’t know if someone is trying to sell more subscriptions the their site, of if they exaggerated what they had heard and hoped they would prove to be right, thereby scooping everyone else. But it doesn’t matter what the reason. The information was incorrect.

From what I can gather from the comments left, the story is that Spurrier was moments away from a deal when he decided to walk away because he didn’t feel like he had 100% support. What does that even mean? Support from who? It is rare that a head coach is hired who is unanimous choice by the AD and all the influential alum. Is it not support enough that you are offering the person millions of dollars a year to come coach their team. Come on! Wake up! These stories are false.

What’s great about the story being pushed is how would the subscribers ever disprove it? If they say Spurrier walked away, how would you, as the reader, be able to know if that was true, of if the story was made up and this was the out. You wouldn’t. The fact is, there isn’t much information to be obtained from the A&M side of this deal. Pretty much all of my information has come from the other side. For example, when I said Houston Nutt was checking to see if A&M had interest in him, and they didn’t, my information that they didn’t was coming from sources on the Nutt side, not on the A&M side. So it’s very difficult to believe that the folks at this particular website would be able to gather the details they claim to have gathered.  

I guess it’s possible that the people who run this pay site are being deceived by someone who wants to feel like they are an influential part of the process.  Or maybe by someone or some group that wants Spurrier, and is trying to turn public opinion against A&M’s AD and whoever he eventually hires -make everyone think it’s Spurrier, so then when word starts coming out that Brian Kelly is the top choice, it feels like a letdown. (I just threw that name out there, by the way, so don’t jump on it). Or perhaps, like I said earlier, they are simply generating stories to get more subscribers.  It’s tough to believe that they were being fed a false story and didn’t know it. Or that they published it without trying to verify it. And now that the story needs to go away, it’s convenient that Spurrier just up and walked away.

I don’t know the reasons for it. But I will tell you that I have 100% confidence in a source I’ve gotten Spurrier information from for years. And it’s not anyone in the media, if you get what I’m saying. So I’m standing by my statement that Spurrier will not be the head coach at A&M next year.

Just think about what you read. Think critically if it matches up with things you know. For example, we’ve seen Bill Byrne make several coaching hires. Most notably, he’s hired 2 men’s basketball coaches, 1 women’s coach, and 1 baseball coach. Who was in charge of those hires? Who did the work? Who went to UTEP games and sat behind the bench to watch Billy Gillispie closely during a game? Now, do you really think that Byrne is going to sit by while others make the decision on the biggest hire of his career at A&M? A hire that will either cement his legacy, or get him fired? If you were in a similar situation in your profession, where a decision had to be made and you were going to get the blame if it went bad, would you just sit back and let others make the decision? I wouldn’t. If I’m taking the blame (especially to the extent that I would lose my job), then I’m making the decision.

Some have asked who I think the next coach will be. I will start addressing that this week. Honestly, it’s often easier to rule people out. But I will have some info for you on the names you should watch for.