Steve Spurrier: ‘If you ever hit a girl, you’re finished’

Steve Spurrier reiterated his zero tolerance policy when it comes to violence against women at SEC Media Days when the South Carolina Gamecocks head coach was asked about a recent outbreak of abuse.

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The NFL was plagued with violence against women last season with high-profile cases involving former Pro Bowl players Ray Rice and Greg Hardy and college football had a pair of players from Florida State arrested in the last week on charges they struck women.

Rice has yet to return to the NFL while Hardy signed with the Dallas Cowboys and even had his 10-game suspension reduced to four games. Florida State head coach Jimbo Fisher dismissed freshman quarterback De’Andre Johnson after video surfaced of him punching a woman at a bar and handed down an indefinite suspension to Dalvin Cook pending an investigation.

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If it was up to Steve Spurrier, no one who ever hit a girl would be allowed to play again and he reiterated his longstanding policy at SEC Media Days on Tuesday.

“I’ve always had a rule as a coach that if you ever hit a girl, you’re finished,” Spurrier said, via CBS Sports.

“We’ve lost two at South Carolina. Fortunately, they were not star players. If they were star players, it would have gone all over the country. So we quietly got them to transfer or leave or what have you.

“Our players know, if they ever hit a girl, they’re not going to play at South Carolina. We enforce that rule.”

Having the rule like this should be mandatory at every college across the country and I wish the NCAA would adopt such a rule and the enforcing of the rule is something that should offer no wiggle room for a return to the program.

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