The Sportaholic News

"Spurrier: Some players still don't get it"
"We've got some lazy guys that don't have the commitment necessary to be winners," Spurrier said. "Simple as that.

Recognizing that he still has some work to do changing the culture of South Carolina football, Spurrier called out eight to 10 players, approximately 10 percent of the roster, at a mid-afternoon press conference Thursday at Williams-Brice Stadium for their failure to fully participate in USC's summer conditioning program that started in early June."Our attendance by our team is not as good as it should be," Spurrier said. "We've got about eight or 10 players, or so-called players, that have not attended regularly. That's disappointing but we'll work on that. It's voluntary right now in the summer, as it is at all the schools. But we've checked the opponents and teams we play and they have close to perfect attendance from the players who will play. Right now we don't have that. That's disappointing to us coaches but hopefully our guys will pick it up through the rest of the summer.

"Spurrier blamed old-fashioned laziness for the poor work ethic displayed by some of the players. Surprisingly, some of the players were recruited by Spurrier and his staff and were part of the 2005 signing class.

Although he declined to specifically identify them, Spurrier said half of the problem players were older veterans and half were younger ones.