Head Coach of the Tampa Bay Bandits
 

Bugsy Eaglehart, who was the general manager of the team, low-balled the “Ball Coach” -- hard to imagine but true according to Spurrier. “Bugsy called everybody ‘Bubba,’ and he said, ‘Bubba, we’re going start you low and let you work you’re way up,’” says Spurrier, who had a 122-27-1 record as coach of the Florida Gators from 1990 through 2001. “I said, ‘isn’t it embarrassing to the rest of the league to pay me so little? Don’t you think $75,000 is more reasonable?’ I got them up to $60,000, then they bumped me up to $125,000 for the second and third years.”

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 Gary Anderson scored 41 TD's for Spurrier  in two USFL seasons