Steve Spurrier's

kind of an idiot. He's lambasting the University of South Carolina in the press for not admitting academically two students he made football scholarship offers.

"Hopefully, I truly believe this is the last year this is going to happen, because I can't operate like that," Spurrier said. "I can't operate misleading young men."

Spurrier signed a contract extension, which included a raise of nearly a half-million dollars, that ties him to South Carolina through 2012. However, he said if things didn't change on admissions "then I have to go somewhere else, because I can't tell the young man that he's coming to school here," then not have him admitted.

Solution: Stop telling them they're going to be guaranteed admission if you know there's an academic committee that has veto power? If he doesn't like that, hey, maybe he does need to leave. But he isn't forced to lie. Likely USC represented to Spurrier that they'd admit his recruits, but they don't have to. He works for them, not vice versa, and the athletic tail shouldn't be wagging the dog of the composition of USC's student body.

If you don't like it that way, Steve, why don't you go to the NFL? Oh wait, been there, done that:

Spurrier's failure was of a different kind. He was the coach, nothing else. He had a say in choosing players, but only a say often overruled by the owner. Snyder was demonstrably incompetent to make personnel decisions; he'd never played, never scouted, never worked in football. But he believes fervently and without exception in the golden rule: he who has the gold rules. So Snyder appointed himself the team's de facto general manager.

All Steve wants to do is everything Steve wants to do, and all these pesky teams keep putting the kabosh on his hallucination of traipsing unencumbered through the Elysian Fields of a football program. (Maybe you're not good enough.)