Former South Carolina head football coach Steve Spurrier was recently inducted into the South Carolina Football Hall of Fame. | File
Former South Carolina head football coach Steve Spurrier was recently inducted into the South Carolina Football Hall of Fame. | File
Former University of South Carolina head football coach Steve Spurrier has been inducted into the South Carolina Football Hall of Fame.
Spurrier, who was inducted July 22, is one of only four people to be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as both a player and a coach, according to WLTX.
"We proved that South Carolina can be relevant in college football," Spurrier said.
After a brief fling with the NFL, Spurrier came to Columbia and took what he said was his only job offer, according to WLXT.
While his exit is not how he hoped it would transpire, he did leave at the top of the win list.
That record-breaking career victory total was helped by three consecutive 11-win seasons (2011-2013), WLTX reported.
Spurrier's career has spanned more than 55 years, MSN reported.
According to WLTX, Spurrier was supposed to be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2020, but the ceremony was pushed back to this year due to the pandemic.
Spurrier, 76, won a national championship at Florida, where he was the program's all-time winningest coach between 1990 and 2001.
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