steve spurrier told wis he knew his time was up as the coach. sports director rick henry has a look back at this year's number four story. :01 :21 :40 on october 13th, the head ball coach, steve spurrier officially announced his resignation as coach of the gamecocks. spurrier had led usc since november of 2004. his last game was a 45 to 24 loss to lsu. the day after that disappointing showing, spurrier knew it was time for him to step aside. "back in 2004, i think i was probably the best coach for this job 11 years ago, but i'm not today, i'm not today. and that's the cycle of coaching. sometimes you run your course, run, and its ready to pass it to the next guy. and that's where i am right here today." even though spurrier's last season with the gamecocks was a losing one, he leaves as carolina's winningest coach in program history with an 86 and 49 record. he led the team to its first and only sec eastern division title and five bowl victories. before he arrived, usc had won only three bowl games. "steve, what would you say is your biggest acc

steer spurrier back on the wild wing cafe for ten and a half season, this is where spurrier spent part of his thursday nights. the last segment spurrier put on the headsets. he's the all-time winningest football coach repeatedly in san football coach's association. you haveton when it's your to know when it's your time to step aside. >> we all have an expiration date as coaches and players, whatever. at the coach's convention i just mentioned that maybe mine was last year after the 14th season, but we thought we had a good season is this year. it didn't work out, and for whatever reason, i thought it would be best for me to step aside. >> reporter: you at peace with your decision to walk away? >> definitely, reggie, definitely. i've had my run. i'm glad i got in when i did, out when i did. maybe i should have got out a little bit sooner. but any way, i've had a wonderfullun. god's been good to me and my family, and i'm pulling for the gamecocks, coach tanner, present past td's, they've got me doing a little sort of good will work for the gamecocks and i hope to do that for a long time.

>> in comes wilil muschamp, the most recent florida coach taking over. >> there's only one coach spurrier. so, i'm going to be will muschamp. >> they hoped the new name translates into old coach >> you spell must charm with a m. m.-u.s.c. champ. >> is that an omen or what. >> up next, we look back, more stay with us. >> we were fraud add eric joining our 12:30 newscast and we are very excited that he and your family add healthy and happy 2015 and we look forward to bringing you to bring you more news in the coming here. >> thanks to us.

in october football coach steve spurrier announced his resignation. slipped and it was his fault. he cited it as a factor in recruiting and police walking away will help the situation. he was the school's all-time winningest coach with 86 victories from 2005 to 2015. >> this is the best thing for south carolina football and for our university to start another building process and we have an accident coach and it is -- excellent coach and it is their turn to have a go at it.>> the man selected was will muschamp the former florida coach. he was introduced in early december and spent four seasons at florida before he was fired after last season. he worked as opera's defensive coordinator this past fall his contract starts at $3 million per year with increases every year. he describes himself as a blue- collar overachiever. he says he will bring the football program.>>> while the gamecocks slipped the clemson tigers sort. they posted a undefeated regular season and won the acc championship. the tigers were ranked number one in the college football playoff. dabo swinney was named coach

he came from florida whwhe he was s a strength and he played under steve spurrier back in 1996. and clemson tigers are back tomorrow after a break of their own. if they went tomorrow night thth will make it a fourth. that's the most since the 9697 team. >> they are excited to play. we would have preferred to played in such a good way. right now but at the same time it's good to give couple of days away for the guys to rest up. we will come back with good practices and guys are excited to compete. we have to play at a higher level. >>> the benedict college women's team has climbed to they are 19 and one overall d they have one 19 consecutive games. one of five teams from the south region. so i things are undoubtedly heating up in charlotte as the guys start to begin buckling down on preparations for the denver broncos in the panthers mighghnot be the underdog. this is what they have been used to for the past 18 weeks, especially a defensive unit but holding arizona to 15 points and forcing seven turnovers for something that made a statements. >> is the biggest group of guys that

what else will come in the future. >> as a head coach at duke, florida, and south carolina, steve spurrieronal championship. ahead, a look at the most powerful pictures of 2015 and a single image that helped focus the world's attention on a crisis. >>> finally, a look at three of the year's most powerful photos in our slide show now. the world really started to pay attention to the migrant prices when this one came along. heart wrenching picture lit up social media. a turkish police officer carrying a 3-year-old syrian boy whose body washed up on the beach. here, workers in nepal rescued a four-month-old baby boy after the enormous earthquake there. he had been trapped in the rubble of his home for about 200 hours but somehow survived. here a photo from washington, d.c. when pope francis made his historic trip to the united states. this little girl apparently tried to bust her way through security to get to the pope but guards stopped her. pope francis eventually waived her over and gave her a blessing. as we enter the new year, fox news will continue to be on top of the events that shape

what else will come in the future. >> as a head coach at duke, florida, and south carolina, steve spurrierionship. ahead, a look at the most powerful pictures of 2015 and a single image that helped focus the world's attention on a crisis. are you curious? do you wonder why things work? do you look at things and say "i can make that better"? these questions, these curiosities then lead to discoveries... ...and those discoveries are going to lead to the energy solutions for the next 50 years. we have big, big challenges. one challenge is to capture the co2 before it's released into the atmosphere. we captured more than 6 million tons in 2014 alone. that's the equivalent of eliminating the annual emissions of more than one million cars. in the longer term, we are working on how to convert algae into biofuels. the ultimate objective is to be able to put it into an existing car, to not have to redo the engine. that could be one of the very important parts of the energy equation in the future. we want to drive our scientists, we want to drive our engineers, to never be satisfied with where we ar

i think the university of south carolina obviously has shown through coach spurrier is to win if you can do that you set yourself goals as a team and individually. >> someone who is also there but not quite so new is shawn elliott. he will stay on staff. that was his original position. the decision of staying or pursuing opportunities wasn't exactly automatic. >> we visited, i believe that sunday night and he expressed interest of keeping me on staff. that was something i wanted. i wanted to be here in the university of south carolina. i love this state and this university. that was a great opportunity and there was another option to go out and a couple of head jobs that i wanted to take on. but when we revisited that sunday, we looked at each other and he said i want you to be the o-line coach. >>> good news for south carolina baseball. former head coach was inducted to the baseball coaches hall of fame tonight. he is one of four honorees. he is first coach in gamecock to be named into the abca hall of fame. congrats coach. >>> not only do they continue to ride that unbeaten streak.

steve spurrier most proud of his 18 home-game winning-streak and tonight looking for number 44 for u.s. c. women's basketball at home. always helps to have the player-of-the-year back on the court. mitchell and staley hosting ole miss. 2-4 record. wilson, helps u.s.c. get out to an early lee. gamecocks on defense. the steal, mitchell she will 15 point's the ballgame for her. wilson leads with 17-9. carolina wins it. 44 straight for staley with another big goal in sighting. >> we want to win this league again. a lot of programs have only two programs have won it three years in a row. we feel like we got the players and we got the experience to do so. so that's one of our goals. >> win next game would be a big step. number 10 attics texas a & m. you might remember, u. is c. escaped with a win. >> columbia two top women's team in in the country. spring sports, u. is c. softball making preseason all s.e.c. team page. league in every category. and, set records, 15 homeruns and u.s.c. opened february 12th. >> that means baseball season not too far. carolina comes in 23 in the preseason poll.

steve spurrier leaves and the gamecocks set a record for the best start ever in thehe sec on the basketball court. getting off to a good start. tim hill has that and more in the sports minute to win it. >> the best start in sec history. u.s.c. men's and women's teams off to 13-0 starts. 26-0 combined. that's the best ever. tina roy leading u.s.c.'s women with seven three-pointers. that's a career high. they blew out arkansas yesterday. former gamecock captain making a big play in the nfl. helping the minnesota vikings wrap up the nfc north with a 20-13 win against the green bay packers in lambeau field last night. the vikings get the number three seed in the nfc playoffs. they host seattle on sunday. the packers play at washington. the carolina panthers will host one of those four teams in the next round of the playoffs. the panthers locking up home field advantage in the nfc by pounding tampa bay 38-10. carolina finishes the season 15-1. cam newton & company knowing the through charlotte. i'm tim hill. hope it helps get your week off to a good start. >> from the playing field to the politi

him and marvin used to coach together in 2002 with steve spurrier and washington redskins both were on the staff. >> and yeah. marty. with a guy and great football mind as i told you earlier, i really like the har and we have a football guy that knows x's and o's and knows talent and able to finally got it right. >>> marvin lewis a last-ditch effort to try to get him to stay the head coach and i am no longer a the head coach. if you are hue jackson you don't know when marvin is stepping down and you have an opportunity in front of you. >> we are lucky to be talking to this guy. they should still be in the playoffs. everybody can say what they want to say. bengals should have won the football game and should be playing this week. i am glad we got him and glad he is here. i like it jimmy, what he didn't do, we interviewed him sunday and jimmy didn't go to the owner's meeting and he locked this guy up. >> will you be on at 6:30. [ scanner beeping ] sir, could you step aside? "sir"? come on you know who i am. progressive insurance? uh, i save people an avera of over $500 when they switch?

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