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Spurrier calls Nick Saban best 'recruiter' in college football history
South Carolina Coach Steve Spurrier, who may have the best jab since Marvin Hagler, took what seemed to be a subtle poke at Alabama Coach Nick Saban. Or was it? Spurrier is deft enough now, in his advancing age, to leave enough room open for interpretation. At 69, he is still the main attraction every summer at the Southeastern Conference's media days in Hoover, Ala. Spurrier, entering his (astonishingly) 10th season at South Carolina, faced the media Tuesday at the Wynfrey Hotel and proclaimed Saban to be the "greatest recruiter in the history of college football." It seemed a backdoor way for Spurrier to suggest that Alabama, under Saban, has actually underachieved by...
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