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Steve Spurrier calls in to surprise Darius Rucker on DP Show
Darius Rucker got a surprise when he was on The Dan Patrick Show on Thursday.
While Rucker, a noted South Carolina fan, was chatting with Patrick, "Steven in South Carolina" called in. Yes, it was South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier (who is a Stephen).
Rucker wasn't sure it was Spurrier at first, but then realized it really was the Head Ball Coach.
Spurrier said he was calling in while preparing to go to the Women's Final Four. South Carolina plays Notre Dame on Sunday.
Rucker is also at least the second country artist Spurrier has talked to this week. Tuesday, Spurrier tweeted a picture of himself with Kenny Chesney before Chesney's concert.
9 AM Scrimmage/ Noon Jr day/ 3 oclcok/ getting ready for the Kenny Chesney concert! http://ift.tt/1F4jEPd
— Coach Steve Spurrier (@SC_HBC) March 28, 2015
We're going to bet Spurrier is just as fun at concerts as he is at the Daytona 500.
For more South Carolina news, visit GamecockCentral.com.
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VT players elicit complaints for behavior at Take Back the Night event
Some Virginia Tech football players reportedly acted inappropriately at a campus Take Back the Night event on March 26.
Per Roanoke.com, witnesses said the disruptive players were laughing, arriving late, leaving early and checking their phones at the event which has a goal of ending sexual violence and included speakers who are survivors of sexual assault. The organized events began in the 1970s and the March 26 event was coordinated by Womanspace, a VT campus organization.
Players were required to attend the event if they didn't have a class conflict and some were reportedly even called out from the stage for leaving early.
Sahai said she sat the front of the Haymarket Theatre in Squires Student Center, where the event was held, while most of the players sat in the back. She said even from a distance it was clear the people wearing “football gear” were laughing during speakers’ accounts of sexual assaults.
Sheree Jean, a 2013 Tech graduate who is a volunteer with Raft Crisis Hotline, one of the night’s sponsors, said she sat among the players in the back of the venue.
“They would text each other and then yell across the room to each other to check their phones,” Jean said.
She said she tried not to look at them for the majority of the event, but couldn’t avoid it when a player beside her turned around to his teammates following a presentation from a gender nonconforming individual.
“He was just like, ‘We do not clap for this,’ ” Jean said.
The conduct of some of the unidentified players in attendance even elicited a Tuesday night meeting that involved coach Frank Beamer and athletic director Whit Babcock that included students and faculty. No football players were involved in the meeting.
Babcock issued a statement about the event that said “We have implemented multiple educational sessions with all of our teams and student-athletes this academic year regarding sexual assault, sexual harassment, diversity and inclusion, gender equity and more. Having our football team attend this speech was actually an aspect of this initiative."
Beamer said in a statement that he met with players immediately after the event.
According to an attendee at the meeting, Babcock answered "I don't know" to a lot of questions but seemed willing to work with those who were there.
There is no indication of what, if any, possible punishments football players could face.
While we all have had to force ourselves to go to events we haven't wanted to attend, we all should know that there's a level of decorum expected despite your attitude. And the reports of some Hokie players behavior sadly recalls the actions of Ole Miss players at a school play in 2013. The players were required to attend "The Laramie Project" as part of a class.
“I was hoping VT football would be above the stereotype, but I was proven wrong,” Thomas Friss, a former member of Womanspace said.
For more Virginia Tech news, visit HokieHaven.com.
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Paul Johnson isn't a fan of coaches leaving right after signing day
While assistant coaches leave for different positions at different schools all the time, this year we saw several coaches make sure a program’s recruiting class was secure before bolting for a new job, leaving prospects feeling betrayed.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution asked Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson about these occurrences. He didn’t hold back.
“I don’t think I would want to do business that way as a head coach,” Johnson said.
“You can’t tell me they didn’t know. I’m sure in that situation, they (head coaches told the assistants who were about to leave) said ‘OK, you need to stay with me until signing day. Let’s finish this thing up.’ Then that’s the on the individuals, too.”
While it happened all across the country, one of the more notable cases involved an Atlanta-area prospect in Johnson’s neck of the woods. Macon County (Ga.) linebacker Roquan Smith announced his commitment for UCLA on National Signing Day, but later signed with Georgia after former UCLA defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich took a job with the Atlanta Falcons.
Johnson says he would never lead a prospect on if he knew an assistant who was heavily involved in the recruitment had one foot out the door.
“I would have a hard time personally misleading guys like that,” Johnson said. “I wouldn’t do it. I wouldn’t let somebody working for me do it – if we knew that they weren’t going to be here (after signing day).”
Johnson’s Yellow Jackets are coming off a big season that included 11 wins and an Orange Bowl victory over Mississippi State. The team will play its spring game on April 17.
For more Georgia Tech news, visit JacketsOnline.com.
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Bitcoin drops out as sponsor of St. Pete bowl
Report: Bitcoin won't sponsor 2015 St. Petersburg Bowl
The BitCoin St. Petersburg Bowl's place in bowl history looks to be a fleeting one.
According to CoinDesk, the 2015 St. Petersburg Bowl will no longer have Bitcoin as its title sponsor. BitPay had originally signed a three-year deal to have BitCoin be the title sponsor of the game.
BitCoin is a peer-to-peer online currency system without a central authority. Because of its structure, it's come under scrutiny, especially for its security. The value of a BitCoin fluctuates and when we wrote about the sponsorship announcement, a BitCoin was worth over $600 according to this website. Now, it's worth less than $250.
The St. Petersburg Bowl website already reflects the change in branding as BitCoin is no longer gracing the bowl's logo. The @BitCoinBowl Twitter handle is also gone if you search for it on Twitter while @StPeteBowl exists.
BitCoin is the second new-in-2014 bowl sponsor to not return for 2015. Duck Commander is no longer the title sponsor of the Independence Bowl. However the game was not played with a sponsorship contract and the name of the company was used as an attempt to leverage other companies into sponsorship agreements with the bowl.
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