re: Will Muschamp tormenting Florida Gator fans once again

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But, despite the public pledge, he does not consider his recruiting completed.

"This will not be shutting down my recruitment," Walker said.

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This is a quote from Isiah Walker Jr. The #spursup comittment you linked us too. What's the point of making the comittment if you're not finished with the recruiting process? These high school kids flip flop like a fish out of water some times.

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No, I was completely disgusted along with a ton of other Gamecock fans when Tanner announced Boom as the new head coach. I wanted Tanner fired right there on the spot. It was such a disappointment .The coaching search was a joke just like Muschamps offense at Florida. We were fresh off of a home loss to Citadel and we hired the coach from Florida that lost to Ga Southern . Not only lost but He Southern didn't even complete a pass in that game .

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I felt the same way at first. And I wanted to beat Tom Herman's arse for "agreeing in principle" to take the job and then backing out after we lost to the Citadel.

But...like you, I am happy with Muschamp's hustle and the way he busts his arse for us. He took over a fricking disaster from what Spurrier did and has done a good job of turning it around. Hard to be unhappy with going from 3 wins to 9 in 2 years.

I am still cautiously optimistic.

Sure we had 9 wins last year but we didn't exactly play murderers row.

I never understood the Roper 2.0 experiment.

That said, I like Muschamp and think he is a good coach. And a some point, he can get lucky with an OC and have big things happen in SC.

I don't think Saban could do any better. If I was pressed maybe Urban Meyer. The name Alabama helped Saban more than most want to admit. I still remember watching him coach the Dolphins. He doesn't coach near as good when teams have equal talent but by God if you give him superior talent across the board he can win some games

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But do you want a title so bad you have to cheat to get it?

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This whole Muschamp thing confuses me. How is it even possible he didn't succeed at Florida? Yet he didn't.

I was totally against his hire at USC, but I was totally wrong.

He does everything totally right. He finds the right players, and gets enough of them to sign to make very effective recruiting classes.

He knows how to run a defense, and he has gotten quality coaches across the staff, particularly at reruiting.

If he is micromanaging the offense, he must have some kind of telepathic link machine because there is absolutely no sign he is micromanaging that side of the ball during games.

Actually I've seen no indication he micros the defense either. T-Rob doesn't seem to consult him when he is making calls.

I just don't get what happened at Florida. Whether a coach scores enough to make some fans happy or not, it doesn't make any sense for him not to have won nine or ten games a year at Florida at the least.

If any coach did the same job at Florida Muschamp is doing at USC, then they are just going to average ten wins a year.

So what went wrong? That whole situation down there doesn't make any sense in retrospect.

If Muschamp showed no ability to beat his rivals regularly and go to Atlanta most years, I'm sure Florida would have gone all Auburn on him.

But year two of his run there is frankly what I would have expected every year to be like, based on his performance here. Even if he were some kind of control freak who couldn't stop meddling, and was going to keep his team from being great.

Brent Pease was a terrible OC, worse than Charlie Cheeseburger and Roper. Muschamp’s biggest screw up in Gainesville was taking Meyers personal and running a pro style offense, which would have been fine if we stuck too it, but after Pease we went right back to the Spread with Roper, but we had three years of recruiting Pro personal, if he would have just stuck to one style of offense instead of switching back and forth he probably would have worked out. He just never seemed to understand what he really wanted from his offense, and I’m sure micro-managing Jeremy Foley didn’t help.

Michigan State Spartans (Big Ten Conference) (1995–1999)
1995 Michigan State 6–5–1 4–3–1 5th L Independence
1996 Michigan State 6–6 5–3 5th L Sun
1997 Michigan State 7–5 4–4 6th L Aloha
1998 Michigan State 6–6 4–4 6th
1999 Michigan State 9–2* 6–2 T–2nd Invited to Citrus* 9* 9*
Michigan State: 34–24–1 23–16–1 * Saban resigned befor


This is his record at michigan state and I'd say they're pretty close to USC historically

2000 LSU 8–4 5–3 3rd (Western) W Peach 22
2001 LSU 10–3 5–3 1st (Western) W Sugar† 8 7
2002 LSU 8–5 5–3 T–2nd^ (Western) L Cotton
2003 LSU 13–1 7–1 1st (Western) W Sugar† 1 2
2004 LSU 9–3 6–2 2nd (Western) L Capital One 16 16
LSU: 48–16 28–1


And now his record at LSU. I stand by my statement of the Alabama name helping Saban more than most want to admit