Spurrier “Playing East Carolina is maybe a little bit better than playing one of those bottom-tier Big Ten teams,”

http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/08/03/spurrier-sings-praises-of-east-carolina-at-big-tens-expense/


In his defense, Spurrier’s Gamecocks will be taking on an East Carolina team that would probably be considered a favorite against Purdue or Illinois. In fact, East Carolina may have the best path to a big bowl game in the new College Football Playoff format than North Carolina, Duke, NC State or Wake Forest may have. The highest ranked conference champion from the “Group of Five” conferences (American Athletic Conference, Conference USA, MAC, Mountain West Conference and Sun Belt) will be given a guaranteed spot in the big revenue bowl line-up determined by the College Football Playoff selection committee.
Was Spurrier out of line? As some have already noted, Ohio State and Michigan could say something similar about playing Kentucky or Vanderbilt most years. Take your pick of Colorado or Utah in the Pac-12, or Kansas in the Big 12 or Wake Forest or Duke in the ACC.

South Carolina hosts East Carolina on September 6, between home games with Texas A&M and Georgia. Each of the last three seasons for South Carolina has ended with a bowl victory over a team from the Big Ten.
For what it is worth, East Carolina is 0-4 all-time against the Big Ten, with all four losses coming against Illinois by an average margin of defeat of 13.5 points.

I agree with him. ECU > um

**** Spurrier I hope we play them in a bowl game soon.

Spurrier has been taking unprovoked shots at a lot of different people this off-season. A Florida fan on another board noted that when Spurrier does that, it means that he thinks he has a very good team coming back.

This is obvious. I would take ECU > 66% of the time versus:

Purdue, Illinois, California, Rutgers, Wake, UVa, Kansas, and Cal.

While true, Spurrier is a whinny asshole.

i have 5$ that Mark D has something to say about this when asked on Monday.

How dare a coach speak honestly!   

However, he does come off as a douche for saying it. He's been around the block enough times that I would suspect he is trying to marginalize tB1G in an attempt to position the SEC as a conference so dominate that a 3 loss South Carolina team should make it into the 4 team playoff over a one loss B1G team.

ECU has beaten South Carolina 5 times, winning 5 of the last 9 times the schools have played. Meanwhile, no one in the Big Ten has ever lost to ECU.

http://www.winsipedia.com/east-carolina

Maybe Spurrier should just STFU.

Izzo Court wrote:How dare a coach speak honestly!   

However, he does come off as a douche for saying it. He's been around the block enough times that I would suspect he is trying to marginalize tB1G in an attempt to position the SEC as a conference so dominate that a 3 loss South Carolina team should make it into the 4 team playoff over a one loss B1G team.

Agree. The bottom of our conference is horrible.

Izzo Court wrote:How dare a coach speak honestly!    

However, he does come off as a douche for saying it.  He's been around the block enough times that I would suspect he is trying to marginalize tB1G in an attempt to position the SEC as a conference so dominate that a 3 loss South Carolina team should make it into the 4 team playoff over a one loss B1G team.

He should have added that ECU would have finished ahead of Tennessee, Arkansas, Vanderbilt and Florida too.

According to Sagrin, they would have finished 7th in the BIG ahead of PSU, Minnesota, Indiana, and of course Illinois and Purdue.

ECU is a damn good program. They've had some talent there. I understand what he's saying.

Hut1hut2 wrote:

Agree. The bottom of our conference is horrible.

Is there a bottom of a conference that isn't?

DWags wrote:

Is there a bottom of a conference that isn't?

The SEC

- ESPN

Ass Dan wrote:

The SEC

- ESPN

Isn't the top ten comprised of the SEC, then everyone else?

Depth is ecu #1 problem. Think SOS

Blanch32 wrote:Depth is ecu #1 problem. Think SOS

Sos would hammer notre dame and then lay down against northwestern. It was systemic, not just depth