[Tuck4Bama]

Saying he was embarrassed by the university’s rejection of two of his recruits, South Carolina football coach Steve Spurrier said Sunday he would leave the school if there are no changes made in the admissions process

Spurrier blasts admission process

[vincesanity82]

Saying he was embarrassed by the university's rejection of two of his recruits, South Carolina football coach Steve Spurrier said Sunday he would leave the school if there are no changes made in the admissions process. Spurrier opened his media day news conference by attacking the university's decision to deny admission to a pair of players who were qualified under minimum NCAA standards. "As long as I'm the coach here, we're going to take guys that qualify," Spurrier said. "If not, then I have to go somewhere else because I can't tell a young man, ‘You're coming to school here,' he qualifies, and not do that. And we did that this year." Wide receiver Michael Bowman of Wadesboro, N.C., and defensive back Arkee Smith of Jacksonville, Fla., were turned down by USC's special admissions committee despite being NCAA-qualified. -- The (Columbia, S.C.) State

Charlotte Observer | 08/06/2007 | Spurrier threatens to leave Gamecocks

[Lefty Noob]

Wow, this is huge news. Sorry, South Carolina fans, but I'm with the school on this one. A University has every right to have stricter-than-NCAA-minimum admissions requirements, and Spurrier had to know about that before he signed up. If he didn't, he should have. It's his fault for making promises he darn well knew (or should have known) he couldn't keep.

[Stoney]

Originally Posted by Lefty Noob

Wow, this is huge news. Sorry, South Carolina fans, but I'm with the school on this one. A University has every right to have stricter-than-NCAA-minimum admissions requirements, and Spurrier had to know about that before he signed up. If he didn't, he should have. It's his fault for making promises he darn well knew (or should have known) he couldn't keep.

Sorry Noob I gotta take The Old Ball Coaches side. Don't pull a NASCAR move and change the rules after we already qualified. It is hard enough to recruit "Players" to SC because of a seemingly bad reputation for being losers. Spurrier has worked his tail off to produce a winner and these guys were qualified by the NCAA standards. So either the school should honor the commitments made by Spurrier or they should let him out of his contract. I would hate to see him go to Tennesee but man what a contender that would create.

[Lefty Noob]

This is pulled from the article in Tuck's post.

But McKinney said being NCAA-qualified does not guarantee an athlete admission.

“Our goal in the regular admissions process and any special admissions process is to try to be sure that every student admitted to the university can be successful and graduate,” McKinney said. “It’s not an arbitrary number on this score or that score.”

As long as USC's policy wasn't changed midstream, and it sounds like this had always been the way the University's done business, Spurrier's in the wrong. The Gamecocks certainly aren't the only school to have stricter-than-minimum admissions requirements (Stanford and Notre Dame do as well), and after the debacle a few years ago where a few Ohio State players kept their eligibility after taking courses in AIDS Awareness and Golfing over the summer semester, I'm all for challenging these kids to be student athletes and not just athletes.

Spurrier had to know about this when he made those commitments, and he never should've made them if he knew he couldn't keep them.

[Stoney]

As long as USC's policy wasn't changed midstream, and it sounds like this had always been the way the University's done business, Spurrier's in the wrong. The Gamecocks certainly aren't the only school to have stricter-than-minimum admissions requirements (Stanford and Notre Dame do as well), and after the debacle a few years ago where a few Ohio State players kept their eligibility after taking courses in AIDS Awareness and Golfing over the summer semester, I'm all for challenging these kids to be student athletes and not just athletes.

Spurrier had to know about this when he made those commitments, and he never should've made them if he knew he couldn't keep them.

That my friends is no doubt why SC is percieved as a loser. If the scores are good enough to get in do you think thier rivals will quibble over petty classes? No. SC is no Stanford or Notre Dame and doesn't have an immediate built in Catholic recruitment base. Spurrier is doing his best to win and the powers that be aren't helping matters any. I bet if he was at Tennesee he would'nt be encountering resistance from the school.