South Carolina football coach Steve Spurrier is hopping mad over the decision to deny admission to two recruits who were above the NCAA minimum standard for eligibility, but did not meet the University’s requirements. Said Spurrier:
“As long as I’m the coach here, we’re going to take guys that qualify. If not, then I’m going to have to go somewhere else because I can’t tell a young man to come to school here, he qualifies, and not do that. And we did that this year.”
In a sane world, the response to this ought to be “Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on your way out,” but, of course, this is not a sane world. The University is going to review its admissions procedures, and Spurrier also said “The president has already told me how we’re going to change how we do admissions here,” so you can guess the outcome of the review.
On some level, the most surprising thing about the whole episode is the discovery that South Carolina’s admissions standards are higher than the NCAA minimum, but then, I’m an inveterate Yankee. Anyway, good for them, while it lasts.