Steve Spurrier to Urban Meyer, You Don't Know Stress 'Till You Coach SC

"I want to apologize to about 30,000 Gamecocks who came down to see a football game," Steve Spurrier said. "We couldn't put one on."

And Urban Meyer thinks he has stress.

Spurrier had to stand in freezing weather to watch his team drop passes, blow blocking assignments, and watch UConn running backs slice up his defense.

Oh for the sunny days of Florida, with bowl games in warm weather and inside domes. Where great recruits fought over the good positions and begged you to sign them.

For Spurrier, stuck in SEC Hell—otherwise known as South Carolina, the place where old coaches go to end their career on a down note—getting a recruit to consider the Gamecocks, just keeps getting harder and harder and you don't win many championships and bowl games with the SEC's leftovers.

Playing right in the SEC headquarter's backyard, South Carolina did absolutely nothing to help promote the SEC as a power.

"Our offense was very sad and our defense wasn't as good as it's been most of the time," Spurrier said. "We thoroughly got beat by a better team."

And that was a coach being kind.

The final score was 20-7, but doesn't tell the story of just how out of hand this game really was. Not only did the University of Connecticut have the ball for over 10 minutes more than the Gamecocks, they did more with it when they had it.

Only a mercy score with three minutes left in the game kept the Gamecocks from being shut out entirely.

This win was a black eye to the SEC and a rare win by the Big East over the conference who is supposed to be dominant.

South Carolina finishes on an extremely down note with the loss and fell to a season-ending tally of 7-6. UConn has much to look forward to next year and this win helped them reach an 8-5 mark.