Steve Spurrier Jr. is in his third season with the Bulldogs in 2022. He was hired as outside receivers coach at MSU on February 4, 2020, after two seasons at Washington State. He earned the title of pass game coordinator in 2022.
 
In three seasons at MSU, the outside receiving corps combined for 50 touchdown receptions and five different outside receivers caught 40 or more passes in a single season. The unit helped quarterback Will Rogers lead the SEC in passing yardage during the 2021 and 2022 campaigns.
 
Most notably in 2021, Makai Polk led the SEC with a single-season school record 105 receptions. He also set the single-season program record for receiving yards with 1,046. He hauled in nine touchdowns through the air, which tied for fourth in single-season Bulldog history. Polk became one of only four players in the SEC since 2000 to record 100-plus receptions, 1,000-plus receiving yards and nine or more receiving touchdowns in a single season. He was just the fifth player in SEC history with 100 catches in a season.
 
During his two seasons at WSU, Spurrier Jr.’s group helped the Cougars boast the top passing attack and nation’s leading passer each year. In 2019, Easop Winston Jr. led the team and tied for second in the Pac-12 in touchdown receptions (11). He also finished second on the team in receptions with 85, just one short of running back Max Borghi, and second on the squad in receiving yards with 970.
 
Spurrier Jr. saw his 2018 outside receivers unit combine for 23 touchdowns while four players caught 26-plus passes including a pair of receivers who each caught more than 60 passes for the nation’s top passing offense. Three outside receivers posted multiple 100-yard games in Tay Martin and Winston Jr. who each also caught eight touchdowns. Meanwhile, Dezmon Patmon finished eighth in the Pac-12 with 816 receiving yards to go along with his five touchdown receptions.
 
Spurrier Jr. joined Washington State’s staff after spending the 2017 season as the assistant head coach/ quarterbacks at Western Kentucky. Spurrier Jr. helped develop Mike White into the Hilltoppers’ first Senior Bowl participant at quarterback and just the second quarterback in school history to post multiple seasons of 4,000 or more passing yards. WKU reached the 2017 Autonation Cure Bowl as White’s 4,177 passing yards were fourth nationally, while his 368 completions led the nation.
 
Spurrier Jr.’s collegiate coaching career has included 17 postseason bowl games, including the Sugar Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, Cotton Bowl and Orange Bowl, as well as five conference championships (three SEC; two Big 12) and two national championships (Oklahoma, 2000; Florida, 1996).
 
Spurrier Jr. spent the 2016 season at Oklahoma in an off-field role as a recruiting and offensive specialist, particularly with offensive coordinator Lincoln Riley.
 
Prior to his time in Norman, Spurrier Jr. served on his father’s staff at South Carolina (2005-15) for 11 seasons as the Gamecocks’ wide receivers coach. He added responsibilities of passing game coordinator in 2009, recruiting coordinator in 2011 and co-offensive coordinator in 2012. During his time in Columbia, the Gamecocks went to nine bowl games and his receivers featured future NFL stars Sidney Rice, Alshon Jeffery and Kenny McKinley.
 
Under Spurrier Jr., Jeffery developed into one of South Carolina’s all-time greatest receivers, setting school records for career receiving yards (3,042) and 100-yard receiving games (12), and tying the school record for touchdown catches with 23 in 2011. Jeffery’s All-America sophomore season (2010) earned him a spot as a Biletnikoff finalist as he tallied a single-season school record 1,517 yards.
 
Spurrier was also invested in the development of Los Angeles Rams wide receiver Pharoh Cooper, a fourth-round draft pick in 2016. During Cooper’s sophomore season (2014), he set the school’s single-game receiving yards record with 233 and was named the 2014 Independence Bowl MVP for a nine catch, 170-yard performance against Miami.
 
The South Carolina record book is filled with receivers coached by Spurrier Jr. On top of Jeffery and Cooper, McKinley became South Carolina’s all-time leader in receptions (207) and receiving yards (2,781) in 2008 before Jeffery broke his yardage record three seasons later.
 
Before joining his father at South Carolina, Spurrier Jr. spent one season at Arizona (2004) under head coach Mike Stoops, two seasons as wide receivers coach in the NFL with the Washington Redskins (2002-03) and was a part of Bob Stoops’ rebuilding project at Oklahoma (1999-2001), culminating with a perfect 13-0 record and national championship in 2000. He also worked alongside Leach during the 1999 season at Oklahoma.
 
A native of Palo Alto, California, Spurrier Jr. played collegiately at Duke where he earned his bachelor’s degree in 1994. While working as a graduate assistant at Florida, Spurrier Jr. added his master’s in 1996.
 
Spurrier Jr. and his wife, Melissa, are the parents of triplets, Luke, Gavin and Emmaline; Nolan; twins, Palmer and Hayden, and McKinley.

THE STEVE SPURRIER JR. FILE
Hometown: Durham, N.C.
Education: Duke, 1994 (B.A., Economics); Florida, 1996 (M.A., Sports Administration)
Wife: Melissa
Children: Luke, Gavin, Emmaline, Nolan, Palmer, Hayden, McKinley
Birthday: Sept. 26, 1971
 
COACHING CAREER
2022: Mississippi State (Outside Receivers/Pass Game Coordinator)
2020-21: Mississippi State (Outside Receivers)
2018-19: Washington State (Outside Receivers)
2017: Western Kentucky (Assistant Head Coach/Quarterbacks)
2016: Oklahoma (Recruiting and Offensive Specialist)
2012-15: South Carolina (Co-Off Coordinator/Recruiting Coordinator/Passing Game Coordinator/WR)
2011: South Carolina (Recruiting Coordinator/Passing Game Coordinator/Wide Receivers)
2009-10: South Carolina (Passing Game Coordinator/Wide Receivers)
2005-08: South Carolina (Wide Receivers)
2004: Arizona (Staff Assistant)
2002-03: Washington Football Team - NFL (Wide Receivers)
1999-2001: Oklahoma (Wide Receivers)
1994-98: Florida (Graduate Assistant)
 
BOWL GAMES AS A COACH
2022 ReliaQuest Bowl (Mississippi State)
2021 Liberty Bowl (Mississippi State)
2020 Armed Forces Bowl (Mississippi State)
2019 Cheez-It Bowl (Washington State)
2018 Alamo Bowl (Washington State)
2017 Cure Bowl (Western Kentucky)
2017 Sugar Bowl (Auburn)
2014 Independence Bowl (South Carolina)
2014 Capitol One Bowl (South Carolina)
2013 Outback Bowl (South Carolina)
2012 Capitol One Bowl (South Carolina)
2010 Chick-fil-A Bowl (South Carolina)
2010 PapaJohns.com Bowl (South Carolina)
2009 Outback Bowl (South Carolina)
2006 Liberty Bowl (South Carolina)
2005 Independence Bowl (South Carolina)
2002 Cotton Bowl (Oklahoma)
2001 Orange Bowl (Oklahoma)
1999 Independence Bowl (Oklahoma)
1999 Orange Bowl (Florida)
1998 Citrus Bowl (Florida)
1997 Sugar Bowl (Florida)
1996 Fiesta Bowl (Florida)
1995 Sugar Bowl (Florida)