This Pie Is For You Steve

Others receiving votes: Boston College 150; Georgia Tech 150; Miami-Florida 91; Notre Dame 90; South Carolina 90; Wake Forest 71; Missouri 58; Oregon State 52; B-Y-U 47; Clemson 30; Oregon 30; South Florida 26; Texas Tech 20; Alabama 16; Oklahoma State 15; Southern Mississippi 14; Iowa 12; Kansas State 8; Memphis 5; Houston 4; Arizona 1; Duke 1; Kentucky 1; Washington State 1.

Notice anything unusual in the first 2007 USAToday coaches poll of other teams receiving votes? Let me help you. Duke which is on a 20-game losing streak received a vote from one of the coaches.

South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier again gave a 25th-place vote to Duke in the preseason USA TODAY Coaches' Poll. The Blue Devils, for whom Spurrier was head coach in the late 1980s and an assistant in the early '80s, bring a 20-game losing streak into 2007.

Said Jim Welch, USA TODAY deputy managing editor for sports: "It's clear that what once might have seemed quaint has begun to lose its charm. We're hopeful that before next season the coaches association can prevail upon Coach Spurrier to find another way to salute his former team — or that Duke gets better in a hurry."

Grant Teaff, executive director of the American Football Coaches Association, whose members vote in the poll, said Thursday that he plans to discuss the vote with Spurrier.

Grant. let me give you some advice. Spare your breath. It won't help. Look up the word "jackass" or classless" in the dictionary and Steve Spurrier's picture is there. He definitely deserves a pie in the face. Unfortunately, I am not sure there is a pie large enough for his big mouth.