Does Spurrier think that he may not be the guy?!

HOOVER, Ala. — A year after South Carolina climbed into the top 10 but failed to finish strong, Steve Spurrier said a few more seasons of mediocrity would prompt him to let another coach try to finish the task of taking the Gamecocks to the SEC championship game.

On the day when USC was picked in its customary fourth-place position in the SEC East, Spurrier talked about the challenges of coaching at a school with one conference championship in its 114-year history.

“I knew it would be difficult. If it was easy, it wouldn’t be that much fun to try to do it,” Spurrier said Friday near the conclusion of SEC media days. “If it was easy, all them other coaches would have been winning at South Carolina.”

Spurrier, who won a national title at Florida and an ACC crown at Duke, said the Gamecocks need to have a couple of big seasons and break the stronghold the troika of Tennessee, Florida and Georgia has held on the East.

And for the first time since arriving in Columbia before the 2005 season, the 63-year-old Spurrier mentioned the possibility that someone else might be the man to do it.
“We need to win the division somewhere along the way. That’s the next step we need to take, or else, if that doesn’t happen in about five years then somebody else needs to try to do it because we’ve got a lot of good players,” Spurrier said. “That’s what coaching’s all about. If one guy doesn’t get it done in seven, eight years, something like that, give that next guy a chance.

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