Spurrier Has Notre Dame Questions, I Have Answers

Instead of focusing on a daunting 2013 schedule that features the likes of North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Mississippi State, and Costal Carolina, South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier used the SEC media days to talk about what is really on his mind... The Notre Dame Fighting Irish.

The "old ball coach" must of took a break for a moment while breaking down that Coastal Carolina game film to contemplate why Notre Dame isn't in a conference.

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"Someone said, 'why was he there?'" Spurrier explained, referring to Notre Dame Athletic Director Jack Swarbrick. "Well he's equal to all the commissioners. So we just tried to figure out why the Athletic Director at Notre Dame is equal to all the conference commissioners. Nobody had a good answer. Nobody had a good answer, except that's the way it's always been done."

" All 14 of our head coaches thought that Notre Dame should join the ACC and play football like all the rest of us," Spurrier continued without taking much of a breath.

"I know the Notre Damers will get mad at me and us coaches for saying that and if you were a Notre Damer, you would say we are supposed to be independent always in football but It's hard to figure out why they sorta have their own conference."

Spurrier then rhetorically asked members of the media if they could explain to him why Notre Dame is not in a conference.

"We talked about that and we voted 14-to-0 that they ought to be in a conference," (WNDU http://tinyurl.com/ludfff3)

Let's break down these quotes shall we? Steve, you were wondering why Notre Dame's athletic director was given an equal status as the conference commissioners during the playoff discussion? Actually he wasn't given equal status, he was voted the spokesman for the group so you could really say he was given a higher rank than the conference commissioners. Nice huh?

The next two quotes the ball coach was contemplating just why exactly Notre Dame is not in a conference. Well Steven, first off Notre Dame plays a National schedule and aside from Navy and occasionally Air Force and BYU, the Irish play teams from BCS conferences. Notre Dame has never played an FCS school which is a common practice for all major conferences. So the Irish might not have to play in a conference championship game, but guess what? They don't play Colombia State Beauty College or Coastal Carolina either. Secondly, Notre Dame has a national fan base and a ton of dough from this little television channel called NBC, so joining a conference really isn't high on the to do list. South Carolina should really look into copying this model... oh wait, never mind.

Lastly, the old ball coach shared with us that the SEC coaches voted 14-0 that Notre Dame should join a conference? Really? What's next, the SEC will vote on whether to move the Eiffel Tower to Starkville? " Uh, let me help you out oh passionate SEC fans, it ain't happenin'.

I consider myself a fan of Steve Spurrier mostly of his trash talking actually, now obviously I'm a little biased, but I feel this time he comes off less funny and more jealous. Go Irish.