re: Will Muschamp was head coach in waiting at Texas. Would he have done well as UT HC?

Wow. Which one of you aggy figs made this alter? 3 posts and calling him randy???? Cmon bruh.

No doubt Boom’s biggest shortcoming was offense, particularly identifying and developing quarterbacks. With Bentley in his last year and with Hilinski and Doty coming in, he’s clearly turned that around. Add in coaching upgrades at qb and offensive line which are paying off, and you have hard proof of Boom’s maturity and growth.

He still has to prove he can beat Georgia, Clemson and other top tier teams (plus Kentucky!). The signs are there if he can continue to build depth, avoid widespread injuries and pull out some upsets with this year’s schedule.

GetCocky11 .... here’s proof of the contention you made in your OP, straight from Wiki with citations. All information is taken directly from newspaper articles.

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Prior to this announcement, Muschamp had been mentioned in association with head coaching job openings at Clemson, Tennessee, Washington, and Auburn.[6] He had been planning an off-week interview with Clemson[23] but as a result of this deal decided instead to wait his turn at Texas, saying, "This is a special place. I think it is 'the' elite job in the country."[6] Austin American-Statesman columnist Kirk Bohls predicted this would be good for the program: "Muschamp's ascension conveys to fans and recruits that Texas values what it has now as one of the elite programs in the country and wants to maintain. This smart, bold move should bring coaching stability, sustained recruiting and possibly expanded recruiting into the Southeast and a continued framework for success."[24]

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Yeah I remember when people thought he was gonna be a really good head coach. He had a lot of ppl fooled there for a while. I'd say he's at a school now that matches what he is as a head coach

You think Pruitt is worse than Muschamp? I think you have that backwards

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You think Pruitt is worse than Muschamp? I think you have that backwards

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Pruitt's coaching ability notwithstanding, he was hired through an absolute shitshow of a coaching search that involved a botched hiring of Schiano, a fired AD mid-search, and got Dave Doeren(??!?),among others, an undeserved raise. By every available metric, UTk's coaching search was worse than USC's, and Pruitt was far lower down the list of candidates for that gig than Muschamp was for USC's. I don't think either coach is going to be successful at their respective jobs.

You've proven you know dick all about your own program's coaching searches, so great job on being ignorant regarding everyone else's.

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Yeah I remember when people thought he was gonna be a really good head coach

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Then I'm not sure why you laughed when I said he could have easily taken a HC job at Clemson, Auburn, or Tennessee in 2008. All 3 programs weren't that great at the time.

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with a 51-26 record,

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not very good

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3-2 in bowl games

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lol you think exhibition games matter

Taggart repairing a broken FSU program? Lol. Fisher had great recruiting classes there. Taggart is doing badly at FSU because he's a terrible coach. This will probably be his last year there.

Anyway, my understanding is that Muschamp got the USCe job because Spurrier left behind such a dumpfire and nobody else wanted the job. It's actually pretty good that he's been able to lead the Cocks to bowl games.

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Tanner whiffed on options A (Herman), and B (Smart), and didn't have the stones to pull the trigger on Lincoln Riley. Only other major candidate was Willie Taggart, and even though he's repairing a broken FSU program, I don't think he'd be a good fit here.

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That’s sorta a strange way of putting things.

Herman was a done deal if we were willing to give him an out clause, without a buyout, if Texas came calling. The proverbial straw happened when we lost to The Citadel and Herman called Tanner and said he was no longer interested, immediately after the game. I know that for a fact.

Smart wanted the UGA job and we had no chance at him unless we had gone after him at the end of 2013, which we didn’t.

Lincoln Riley was basically the coach in waiting at Oklahoma. There was no chance there. Stoops let it be known that he was close to retiring and rumor has it that he had even flown to Columbia to speak with Spurrier a year prior about them both getting near the end of their coaching careers.

Willie Taggart got an interview strictly as part of an EO initiative. He wasn’t qualified and he would have been a terrible fit. Word is he also did not interview well. We dodged a bullet there.

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Tanner needed to feel comfy with the coach's ties to the SEC, and muschamp checked the boxes. Tanner settled for who would take the job. Tennessee did the same thing, albeit significantly worse, when they had their abortion of a search two years later.

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Tanner didn’t settle for anything. I agree, at the time, I thought it was a bad hire but Tanner didn’t settle .... and everyone knows I am no fan of Ray’s as an AD. But Ray met with mUSChamp and he genuinely liked him. People forget that SPURrier and Tanner had reached out to Boom for the DC job when he was fired at Florida. mUSChamp had taken his family and gone to the islands and he had received over a dozen calls from coaches all over the country wanting him as a DC. In the end he chose Auburn because of ties there and that soured him, in the eyes of a lot of us.

Fast forward a year and Elliott finishes the season in a shite show, Herman bails after the Citadel loss, Smart is already doing a deal with UGA, and HR is telling Tanner he has to interview Taggart who had reached out for an interview. Riley got his salary doubled to stay with Oklahoma until Stoops retired.

There were two other candidates that were going to be interviewed but Tanner decided to talk to mUSChamp one more time. He made the call and they decided to meet face to face. The rest is history but one of the things Tanner said to some people was that he connected with mUSChamp in terms of drive and competitiveness and he appreciated that out of mUSChamp.

Also, the deciding factor was, of course, that you can’t spell mUSChamp without USChamp.

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