Lou Holtz was a Skins coaching candidate?

[BigHairedAristocrat]

Originally Posted by mlmdub130

The better nugget from that coaching search? "Spurrier told the Redskins he was not prepared for the daily grind an NFL coaching job demands," Mark Maske reported. They should have believed him.)

thats the best part of the article right there

That quote confused me. It didn't really sound clear that Spurrier told the skins that BEFORE they hired him. Why on earth would Spurrier tell them that during a job interview. Makes no sense. Seems more like something Spurrier would have said during the exit interview.

[mlmdub130]

Originally Posted by BigHairedAristocrat

That quote confused me. It didn't really sound clear that Spurrier told the skins that BEFORE they hired him. Why on earth would Spurrier tell them that during a job interview. Makes no sense. Seems more like something Spurrier would have said during the exit interview.

haven't found the original interview but i stumbled upon this from oct 23 2003 when spurrier was interveiwed by maske

[I]On whether he will go back to college coaching after this season:
I don't see that happening. My old athletic director at Duke called me the other day trying to get some names. He was just halfway kidding and he said, 'Do you want to come back and coach at Duke?' I said, 'I've already done that. I've already done my time in college and at Duke.' I said, 'Nah, this is the challenge that intrigues me the most, no question about it.' This is the challenge that I have not succeeded in yet, and I'm going to try my best to succeed at this level.

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by BigHairedAristocrat

That quote confused me. It didn't really sound clear that Spurrier told the skins that BEFORE they hired him. Why on earth would Spurrier tell them that during a job interview. Makes no sense. Seems more like something Spurrier would have said during the exit interview.

It wasn't during a job interview that he said that. The Redskins (and many other teams went after him) and he said no, I'm not ready. A year and a few million dollars later, he sang a different tune