From yanking his quarterbacks over the years for poor decisions to throwing his visor in disgust, Steve Spurrier is known for being passionate on the sidelines.
He's also blunt.
The South Carolina coach got right to the point Wednesday regarding his weekly TV show, "Steve Spurrier Show."
He asked that the show be removed from the athletic department's website because he felt it was too negative.
"I shouldn't be so negative and I have to come back and say, 'I shouldn't have been so negative about our coaches and everything,' " Spurrier told The State.
Spurrier was critical of the Gamecocks after they beat UCF on the road last Saturday, 28-25. They led the game by 18 points before holding on for the victory.
He asked South Carolina AD Ray Tanner and IMG College's Liz McMillan if the show could be taken down and now shown again.
The show has been removed from the school's website and will air just the one time. It was scheduled to replay Tuesday on Fox Sports South, but did not.
"Liz and Coach Tanner, we decided we didn't have to show it after the first time," Spurrier told The State. "I said, 'I'm not very happy with all I said on the thing and so forth. Let's get it off the air.' They said, 'We don't have to show it anymore so I said let's don't show it because I have to be more positive."
TEXAS QB ASH OUT VS. IOWA STATE
Texas will play Thursday night without quarterback David Ash, Longhorns coach Mack Brown said Wednesday.
Case McCoy will start in place of Ash against Iowa State.
Ash suffered a head injury in Week 2 against BYU, sat out the following week's loss to Ole Miss and returned to play Sept. 21 against Kansas State. But Ash was injured in that game and replaced by McCoy.
It is also possible that freshman Tyrone Swoopes could see time at quarterback, according to Brown.
"We have a plan to play Case and bring Tyrone in if it fits," Brown told reporters. "We worked Tyrone hard the last three weeks."
Kick off Thursday night in Ames, Iowa, is scheduled for 7:30 and the game will be televised on ESPN.
SABAN CALLS FINEBAUM 'FRIEND'
Nick Saban is a lot of things.
The nation's top college football coach. A great recruiter.
Intense. Successful. Dedicated. Passionate.
And friends with Paul Finebaum.
The Alabama coach said as much on his weekly SEC teleconference with reporters when asked about Finebaum, who recently moved from Birmingham to Charlotte to air The Paul Finebaum Show on ESPN radio.
"He's been a good friend for a long time," Saban told reporters. "I think he's a guy that is one of the most acutely aware of guys in college football," Saban said Wednesday of Finebaum. "I can speak for that in terms of what's happening in college football, what the issues are in college football. Maybe sometimes pretty good opinion on how they should be managed.
"I've always had a tremendous amont of respect for Paul ... I think he'll do a fantastic job for the network. If he's happy with the opportunity he has, we're certainly happy for him."
Finebaum was a guest coach at Alabama's 2010 spring game. While his radio show was already popular, it gained more attention in 2011 when Harvey Updyke called in to his show as "Al from Dadeville" and claimed to have poisoned the landmark oak trees at Toomer's Corner in Auburn.
SANDUSKY DENIED NEW TRIAL
Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky should not get a new trial after being convicted of sexually abusing 10 boys, a Pennsylvania appeals court ruled Wednesday.
The unanimous decision by a three-judge Superior Court panel came barely two weeks after they heard oral arguments by Sandusky's lawyer and a state prosecutor.
Defense lawyer Norris Gelman said he planned to ask the state Supreme Court to review the case.
Sandusky had argued his trial lawyers did not have sufficient time to prepare, a prosecutor made improper references to him not testifying on his own behalf and the judge mishandled two jury instructions.
The opinion by Judge Jack Panella said trial judges have discretion about whether to allow pretrial delays, and that in Sandusky's case the judge carefully considered the continuance requests.
"The decision does not reflect a myopic insistence upon expeditiousness in the face of Sandusky's request; it was not an arbitrary denial," Panella wrote.
Sandusky had wanted the trial judge, John Cleland, to give jurors an instruction about the amount of time it took for nearly all of the victims to report their allegations. Panella wrote that Cleland should have evaluated the need for such a jury instruction based on each victim's age and maturity, but Cleland's failure to do so did not harm Sandusky.
"The trial court specifically instructed the jury that they were to consider any possible motives of the victims in coming forward," Panella wrote. "The vigorous cross-examination of the victims and arguments by defense counsel, when combined with the trial court's instructions on credibility, clearly defined the issues for the jury."
The issue related to Sandusky not testifying was not properly preserved for appeals court review, Panella wrote.
The appeals court also turned down another jury instruction claim, related to weighing a defendant's good character against the allegations.
Sandusky, 69, is serving a 30- to 60-year prison sentence at a state prison in southwestern Pennsylvania. If he does not get the convictions overturned, he is likely to die in prison.
Contributors: Ken Bradley, The Associated Press