We had a great belief in our locker room. We didn't have to do anything special. Just be us. I was so proud of this team. We had so much fun and out of being legal.

Any idiot can say whatever they want and they usually do and they're negative. And all I see to me, I've gotten to a point now when I see things like that, I feel sorry that those people feel that way. That their lives don't have the purpose, the passion and the excitement and the enjoyment that some of us do.

Our purpose is to win, make no mistake about it, but it's to win the right way. And our goal, our stated goal, is going to be to win the S.E.C. East.

Talk about the reception you received from the fan base. Do you think you'd be kissing the hugging babies at the tarmac when you got the point?

A lot better than another tarmac experience that I had. I didn't think of it as like an anniversary or something like that.

We're coming, we're coming, and we ain't back in now.

And as my, as the head football coach at South Carolina, my job is to do what I feel is best for the University of South Carolina football program today and going forward in the future.

That's what I did. We wish him well and have nothing but we wish him well.

Welcome in to the latest episode of that S.E.C. podcast. I'm your host, Mike Brennan.

I go by S.E.C. Mike on Twitter and I'm flying so low for this one, but we got a lot of news around the S.E.C.

Still not done with all the spring game action, so I didn't want to go another day without giving you guys some S.E.C. content to start your day.

And of course, hey, before we get rolling here, missed it by a day, but as I recorded, it is Steve Spurrier's birthday.

One of the greatest coaches in S.E.C. history, so I wanted to wish a happy birthday to the headball coach.

It's neat to be Clemson because they, I guess, historically had own South Carolina.

I guess they don't own us right now. That's for sure.

Well, yeah, the Tiger doesn't play defense or offense for them. Not yet, anyway. And they do keep it caged up there.

I've been reading like you guys have about our new 3-4 defense. Did anybody like that 3-4 defense?

I don't know if it mattered if we played a 6-60 defense.

Most of our guys have never been to Death Valley. That is the Death Valley, or is there another one around?

Yeah, there's two of them. That's right, there's two Death Valley. Yeah, I forgot about that.

And speaking of that, we're going to have a little bit more on South Carolina in just a minute.

But Shane Beamer during his most recent press conference, he opened by saying happy birthday to Steve Spurrier

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