Spurrier Joins a Different Top 10 plus a comparison

With Al Groh's departure at Virginia, Steve Spurrier moves into a tie for 10th place on the list of "Longest Tenured Coaches without a BCS Bowl" at their current BCS school. The 2009 pre-season list is here.

Here's the latest Top 10:

1.(T) Mike Leach (Texas Tech) - 2001
1.(T) Greg Schiano (Rutgers) - 2001
1.(T) Gary Pinkel (Missouri) - 2001
4.(T) Bobby Johnson (Vandy) - 2002
4.(T) Jeff Tedford (Cal) - 2002
6.(T) Rich Brooks (Kentucky) - 2003
6.(T) Mike Riley (Oregon State) - 2003
9.(T) Randy Edsall (UConn) - 2004 Joined Big East
9.(T) Mike Stoops (Arizona) - 2004
10.(T) Steve Spurrier (South Carolina) - 2005
10.(T) Jim Leavitt (USF) - 2005 Joined Big East
10.(T) Mike Gundy (Ok State) - 2005
10.(T) Dave Wannstedt (Pitt) - 2005

If Oregon State beats Oregon this week for the Pac-10 Championship, Spurrier will move into a tie for 9th place. Also, while we're on the topic of the Evil former Genius. How about a comparison to Ray Goff's tenure at UGA.

Spurrier through his first five seasons in Columbia:

35-27 overall
18-22 in the SEC
10 win seasons 0
9+ win seasons 0
1-2 Bowl Record
0 Top 25 Finishes

Goff through his first five seasons in Athens:

34-22 overall
18-19 in the SEC*
10 win seasons 1
9+ win seasons 2
2-1 Bowl Record
2 Top 25 Finishes

*If you include the '89 UGA vs. SC game and 'the 91 Arkansas match-up in the Independence Bowl as SEC games, Ray was 19-20 against current SEC Members...which is a still better.

Ray was mocked mercilessly by Spurrier for his mediocrity. I'd love to see how the '94 version of Steve Spurrier would react to seeing how pedestrian the '09 version of himself looks.

PWD