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The legendary university football coach Steve Spurrier has torn the Florida Gators defensive player, Brendan Bett, for spouting an opponent during the team defeat against southern Florida.
Bett was expelled from the incident on Saturday evening. He received an antisportive driving penalty and cost the Gators’s defense sites during the southern Florida campaign. The Bulls finally won the 18-16 match.
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Former Florida Gators head coach, Steve Spurrier. (USA Today Sports)
Spurrier, which won a national championship as a Gators head coach in 1996, fled in Bett for the decision to spit on a Bulls player.
“We thought that our defense could hold them back, but then had this stupid spitting penalty which became fashionable,” said spurrier on the “Podcast noted Anthony Dooley”. “I guess he saw the guy from the NFL doing it and said:” I can do it. “I hope not.
Spurrier referred to the defensive line player of the Eagles of Philadelphia, Jalen Carter, spitting the quarter-arre of Dallas Cowboys, Dak Prescott, during their match Thursday evening to start the regular NFL season.
Florida’s defensive line player Brendan Bett (90) celebrates a tackle against Liu Brooklyn in the first half of a university football match on NCAA on Saturday August 30, 2025 in Gainesville, Florida. (AP photo / Alan Youngblood)
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Florida’s current head coach Bill Napier said Bett apologized for his actions and would be confronted with an “internal discipline” for his actions.
“The child is full of remorse,” said Napier. “He has the impression of dropping the team. In general, it was out of his character for him. He made a mistake, and he compromised the team. He made a selfish decision. He distorted our fans, our elders, the university.
“When a young man enters your office and his immediate concern is how he has not represented this place in the right way, I think it is a good indication of his attitude towards him.”
Bett also offered excuses, especially to the Cole Skinner line player.
“I want to apologize sincerely for my actions in the match last Saturday,” Bett wrote in publications on social networks. “I dropped my teammates, my coaches, my family and the whole Gator nation. Our coaches always instill in us the value of the sporting spirit, and I crossed the line. I also want to apologize to the south of Florida.
The quarter of the southern Bulls Florida Byrum Brown (17) launches the ball on the defensive line of Florida Gators, Brendan Bett (90) at the first quarter at the Ben Hill Griffin stadium on September 6, 2025. (Images Kim Klement Neitzel / Imagn)
“It is not the person or the player that I try to be. I made a terrible mistake, and that will not happen again.”
