Muschamp at Auburn is going to be fun for those fans. I envision a very fun, very competitive rivalry between Saban/Muschamp. Not Smart. I don't acknowledge Smart. If he's even in the state next year.
This is a shock to me. They apparently wanted a completely different personality to Bo Pelini more than anything else. Riley is a good guy who won't ruffle feathers and will get everyone to like him. But things have really gone south at Oregon State and some were calling for his head. Watching Riley go from a program with few expectations to a hot seat like Nebraska will be interesting. Wish him well, but in Ws and Ls, I don't think he will be successful as Pelini was.
I still say Craig Bohl made a huge mistake leaving NDSU for Wyoming last year. I think he'd be the Nebraska coach today had he been patient. Now, he goes 4-8 and is likely stuck there.
I feel like if we're waiting this long to make a decision, the replacement won't be much better than Levine.
Huge get for SMU. Clemson wasn't great this year, so you didn't hear his name as much this time around, but he has been one of the hottest names among coordinators looking to make the jump to a head coaching job in recent years. Clemson being a little down on the national scale actually probably helped SMU get him. If they were a borderline top-10 team like they have been the last two years, Morris may have been out of their league. I'm also interested in where Clemson goes from here. Their rise from a middle of the pack ACC team to a perennial conference title contender aligns nicely with the hiring of Morris. And although you can't argue with his success, Dabo Swinney just never struck me as the type of head coach who is so good with all phases of his job that he can continually survive assistant coach turnover.
Apparently, Muschamp to Auburn is not a done deal. This says that he's going to South Carolina, with a HCIW gig: http://southcarolina.scout.com/story/1488773-done-deal-muschamp-coming-to-south-carolina
Hard to believe Muschamp and any program would do a head coach-in-waiting deal. After what happened in Gainesville, I find it hard to believe that any other SEC program would be tripping over themselves to line up Will Muschamp as a successor to the current head coach. You also have to figure Muschamp would be skeptical of a HCIW deal given how the last one of those worked out for him. Then again, that type of deal does come with an added level of job security and probably a pretty good pay raise over "just" being a DC. So I guess I could understand it a little from his standpoint.
I agree, but it's SC we're talking about. I can see them giving Muschamp 2-3 years. And when you're a HIC you can inherit continuity on offense (Muschamp's biggest problem) and it allows you time to recruit your guys without the guaranteed down years. He wouldn't have much to lose.
