Gamecocks' Spurrier on Garcia: 'I haven't been hard on him at all'

"I'm not going to lie, I was pretty upset about it," Garcia said in April. "I'm just going to have to use that as motivation and try to prove him wrong."

South Carolina's media days Sunday, and Spurrier has no idea what all of the Garcia fuss and hurt feelings was all about.

"I haven't been hard on him at all," Spurrier said according to The State. "He didn't have a very good last game. I didn't have a very good last game."

Spurrier then addressed the biggest criticism most everyone has of Garcia: turnovers and the mental mistakes that marked his sophomore season.

"I'm not saying one mistake and he's out of the game," the coach said. "Nobody's mad at Stephen.. Stephen has been told what he's expected to do, we expect him to play well and not have those critical errors and mistakes."

Garcia threw ten interceptions and was the 84th-rated passer in the country in 2009