COLUMBIA, S.C. — Former South Carolina head coach Steve Spurrier and Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney are good friends, though you would not have known it when they coached against each other from 2008-’14, due to the jabs they took at one another.

Spurrier was the head coach at South Carolina from 2005-’15, where he became the all-time winningest coach in school history. He led the Gamecocks to heights they never reached before he came and since he left Columbia.

One of his achievements was his success against the Tigers. No South Carolina head coach had the kind of success against Clemson that Spurrier did.

He was 6-4 against the Tigers as the Head Ball Coach in Columbia, including five straight victories from 2009-’13 – the longest winning streak by the Gamecocks in the 122-year-old series.

On Monday night, Spurrier was officially enshrined into the South Carolina Athletic Hall of Fame, which gave him the opportunity to get one last dig at Swinney, who was in attendance to see Spurrier and his other friend, former Clemson Sports Information Director Tim Bourret, go into the Hall.

Near the end of his acceptance speech, Spurrier told a story how he was speaking to a Gamecock Club in Sumter before the start of the 2005 season, where he shared his personal goal with the crowd.

“I want to be the winningest coach in school history here at South Carolina,” Spurrier recalled. “They sort of looked at me. They never heard someone say something like that. I said, ‘All I have to do is win 65,’ I think it was. It was not way up there.”

Of course, Spurrier got there and he did it in 2012. The win that allowed him to become South Carolina’s winningest coach, was the Gamecocks’ 27-17 victory over the Tigers at Memorial Stadium in Clemson.

“During our eighth year here, we won No. 65,” he said, as he got a laugh from the record crowd at the Columbia Convention Center in Columbia, S.C. “I’d like to thank Coach Dabo. His team did not play very well that night and I was able to win at Clemson. Dylan Thompson had a heck of a game that night.”

But that was not the dig. It came a few seconds later as a backhanded compliment to Swinney.

“Dabo has more conference championships than any coach in America right now and two national championships, so I think he has done pretty good. He’s done pretty good, and I am still trying to figure out how we beat you guys five years in a row, but it happened, I guess,” Spurrier said with a devilish-like-grin and chuckle.

Spurrier finished his career at South Carolina with an 86-49 record, which included three consecutive 11-win seasons, and a No. 4 final national ranking in 2013. However, Swinney got the last laugh at the end of his career, as the Tigers beat the Gamecocks 35-17 in 2014, Spurrier’s last game coaching in one of the country’s oldest rivalries.