VIDEO: South Carolina's Steve Spurrier mocks preseason interviews by slamming team
South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier went wildly off the predictable preseason script Wednesday, lightheartedly laying into his team in a send-up of shallow preseason media interviews.
Following another muggy practice session, Spurrier offered the waiting media a pitch-perfect contrast to the tired, staid truisms typically voiced by college coaches during training camp.
"I was thinking, everybody is undefeated at this time," he said in a video uploaded by South Carolina NBC affiliate WCBD-TV. "Everything is going great. I thought I would give you guys the opposite of what a coach at this time of year says."
Spurrier then launched into an uproarious takedown of his team, lamenting his quarterbacks' pathetic passing skills and his receivers' stone hands.
"I tell you what, we had another sorry practice today. These guys, I don’t know if we are going to be able to beat anybody this year," Spurrier said. "Quarterbacks, they can’t hit the broad side of a barn right now. Receivers - they couldn’t catch a cold if it was the middle of February, dropping everything."
"Defensive backs, gosh I wonder why they got grass stains on their jerseys they fall about every play, about two or three of them are falling," he continued. "And our kickers, gee it’s like the Army. Left, right, left, right, they’re kicking it all over the place."