Nobody wants to be embarrassed. Those guys have great stuff, and they're very capable of embarrassing all nine hitters. We step our game up and concentrate a little bit harder, and things have worked out.

If he does what he's capable of doing, hitters won't hit him.

Everybody wants to talk about the hitters being juiced. Nobody even really thinks about the pitchers. Before, they were throwing 95 mph, but now they're throwing 90. It's going to be a whole different feel.

[But after embarrassing himself with the Redskins in a way that Lou Holtz once embarrassed himself with the Jets, Spurrier decided he couldn't play bogey golf for the rest of his adult life.] I told my wife, 'I need to go coach somewhere,' ... Then this opportunity popped up and she said, 'Why there?' I said, 'Well, first of all, it's in the South. It's in the SEC. I get to play against the same guys I've been playing for 12 years. Everything is there to be successful and yet they have never quite done it.'

That nine hitter, he's not there because he can't hit. He's just there because they've got so many other hitters in front of him.

Everybody wants to get old, but nobody wants to be old