The fact that Florida’s football team and head coach Jim McElwain parted company abruptly Sunday was “not shocking but surprising,” said the man who used to hold that job.
“The athletic director summed it up. I thought he did a good job of saying that this was not about wins and losses, it was about the whole thing, other things and so forth,” Steve Spurrier told The State on Monday. “That was just part of it, the wins and losses. He took into consideration everything I guess, and they thought it was time to make a change.”
Spurrier – who coached the Gators for 12 seasons, including the 1996 national championship team – now serves as a consultant at Florida, where he also played and won the 1966 Heisman Trophy.