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‘It’s ideal for me’ Steve Spurrier says of return to coaching in AAF

The phone rang and when I picked it up I could almost hear the grins of Steve Spurrier wafting over the AT&T airwaves when I said:

“So you’re a Head Ball Coach again! Congratulations. I’m so happy for you.”

Steve Spurrier is happy too.

“It’s ideal for me. Perfect,” Spurrier said from Orlando, where he was about to catch a flight home from New Home No. 2 in Orlando to New Home No. 1 in Gainesville. “But most of my friends said the same thing – they’re all happy for me. Short season, over by April.