
Lauren Sisler and Rick Neuheisel talk to inaugural winner Steve Spurrier about his coaching career at the Legacy Awards.
Spurrier One of Two First Recipients of Nick Saban Legacy Award
Monday, May 2, 2022 | Football
Steve Spurrier and Eddie Robinson were named the inaugural recipients of the Nick Saban Legacy Award in College Football Coaching.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Gator Great Steve Spurrier and Eddie Robisnon were named the first two recipients of the Nicka Saban Legacy Award in College Football Coaching, the Birmingham Monday Morning Quarterback Club announced.
The award was created to honor and recognize the lifetime achievement of a college football coach and the contributions to the game. The legacy awards were presented in Birmingham, by the Monday Morning Quarterback Club, the Quarterbacking Children's Health Foundation, and Coach Nick Saban. Co-hosts for the event are Rick Neuheisel and Lauren Sisle.
"We need personalities in this profession. We need characters. We need people who inspire people to be interested in our game and there's no bigger personality, no bigger character that ever did that in my mind than Steve Spurrier and he does not get the credit for the impact that he had on the game," Saban said about Spurrier's legacy. "He revolutionized the game that you see right now."
Steve Spurrier – a Heisman Trophy winner and the former head coach at Duke University, the University of Florida and the University of South Carolina. He led Florida to its first national championship win in 1996 and six SEC championship wins. Spurrier's teams were SEC Eastern Division champions eight times, and he was named ACC Coach of the Year twice and SEC Coach of the Year seven times. His head coaching record of 217-79 (college) and development of players such as Danny Wuerffel, Chris Doering and Emmitt Smith, as well as coaches Bob Stoops, Shane Beamer and Charlie Strong, exemplify his interest in the development of others.
Eddie Robinson – the former head coach at Grambling State University, coached college football for 56 years and is recognized as one of the great coaches of all time. He built Grambling State into a "small" college football powerhouse and has received numerous coaching awards. His record at retirement was 408-165-15. The Grambling football facility is named in his honor, and in 2010, the Eddie G. Robinson Museum opened on the campus. The museum chronicles and celebrates the major accomplishments of the G-Men football program and its coach.
The award was created to honor and recognize the lifetime achievement of a college football coach and the contributions to the game. The legacy awards were presented in Birmingham, by the Monday Morning Quarterback Club, the Quarterbacking Children's Health Foundation, and Coach Nick Saban. Co-hosts for the event are Rick Neuheisel and Lauren Sisle.
"We need personalities in this profession. We need characters. We need people who inspire people to be interested in our game and there's no bigger personality, no bigger character that ever did that in my mind than Steve Spurrier and he does not get the credit for the impact that he had on the game," Saban said about Spurrier's legacy. "He revolutionized the game that you see right now."
The "Nick Saban Legacy Award" was created to honor and recognize the lifetime achievement of a college coach and his contributions to the game of football. This years recipients, two of the greatest to ever do it, in Steve Spurrier and the late, great, Eddie Robinson. @abc3340 pic.twitter.com/DGvfIYIxh7
— Johnny Congdon (@congdonsation) May 3, 2022
Steve Spurrier in Birmingham to receive the first Nick Saban Legacy Award. pic.twitter.com/65FoSXz4cL
— Michael Casagrande (@ByCasagrande) May 2, 2022
Steve Spurrier – a Heisman Trophy winner and the former head coach at Duke University, the University of Florida and the University of South Carolina. He led Florida to its first national championship win in 1996 and six SEC championship wins. Spurrier's teams were SEC Eastern Division champions eight times, and he was named ACC Coach of the Year twice and SEC Coach of the Year seven times. His head coaching record of 217-79 (college) and development of players such as Danny Wuerffel, Chris Doering and Emmitt Smith, as well as coaches Bob Stoops, Shane Beamer and Charlie Strong, exemplify his interest in the development of others.
Eddie Robinson – the former head coach at Grambling State University, coached college football for 56 years and is recognized as one of the great coaches of all time. He built Grambling State into a "small" college football powerhouse and has received numerous coaching awards. His record at retirement was 408-165-15. The Grambling football facility is named in his honor, and in 2010, the Eddie G. Robinson Museum opened on the campus. The museum chronicles and celebrates the major accomplishments of the G-Men football program and its coach.
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