Notes from Steve Spurrier's Press Conference Today

South Carolina head football coach Steve Spurrier met with the media today and here are highlights from his discussion with the media. For a full briefing go here.

Extracted comments Spurrier made that LOHD deems worthy of repeating -

• Tommy Beecher right now is getting his shot to be the lead QB in the Spurrier system. Nothing news worthy here as Gamecock nation truly is waiting to see what August 15th brings. That is the day Garcia is eligible to come back....
• Spurrier is the play caller and offensive coordinator; even plans to spend more time with the quarterbacks and offense....that ends that story.
• "Dusty Lindsey is ready to go," which is good news for the linebacking core of the defense.
• I will end with his reflect on building of the USC program; gotta love how he speaks the truth, no sugar coating ---

"We knew there was some building to do.........We have got a good nucleus of young players; we are still not a whole bunch of seniors. We have had five guys drafted in the last three years. Did you know that? So we are not going to win a lot of SEC (Championships) with one or two guys drafted every year...........We didn't have that big recruiting class until the third (class) and that was because we won our last three games. That was certainly helpful. We didn't win our last three last year. Lost a bunch of them at the end there. That's just the way it happened. We are where we are but we can get out of it. We can get out of it with a little better coaching and a little bit better play. We can get out of it." "We know why we lost a lot of games. We will try our best as coaches to show how we lost a lot of games. It wasn't all the players fault. It's coaches, me, some other guys, if we would have made some better calls, taught this defense or that run play a little bit better, but it happened and there is nothing we can do about it instead try to learn why and hopefully we can show our guys why we failed in some of those close games. We'll try to do that."