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This is comic gold!!!
https://coachingsearch.com/article?a=Will-Muschamp-The-worst-thing-you-can-do-as-a-coach-is
Will Muschamp promises that he’s not going to put a square peg in a round hole at South Carolina.
He didn’t last at Florida because of the poor offense. He knows that. He says he’d still be there if he’d hired Kurt Roper sooner. But as his first fall with the Gamecocks arrives, they have an offense in mind. It might not be what they run the next year, but it’s what is needed for Week 1.
“The most important thing, we need to have the style of offense to win a game on Sept. 1,” Muschamp said on ESPN Radio Charlotte. “As a coach, you figure out what your players can do, how you can be successful and how you win games, and that’s what we’re going to do. Regardless if it’s not what we want to be right now, you need to do what it takes to win football games.
“The worst thing you can do as a coach is take a scheme, throw it on the players and say, ‘This is who we are.’ The best thing you can do is evaluate your players, say these are the best things we do right now. My second season at Florida, we weren’t very pretty offensively. We won 11 games and finished second in the country that year in the regular season, but we played behind our defense and special teams. Identify what your players can do and do those things.”
Muschamp and Roper inherit a South Carolina offense that was 110th in scoring last year (21.9 ppg) and has just five returning starters, but he says he’s learned from the Florida stint, when he took a spread team and tried to make it pro-style.
So how did Muschamp land another SEC job less than two years after getting let go at Florida? He pointed to the NFL, which rehires head coaches time and time again, and said he was hired by someone who understands the whole situation.
“I think (South Carolina athletic director) Ray Tanner recognized what we did in a positive manner at Florida,” Muschamp said. “Ray’s a former coach. We talked a lot about my tenure at Florida and the different things that happened and the circumstances that maybe weren’t under our control, such as injuries and things that were difficult to overcome. He understood that. It’s interesting to me, in the National Football League, coaches are rehired multiple times. They’re rehired by general managers who are football people.
“They’re not always trying to please the fanbase. They’re trying to make the best football decisions for their organization. They can look at a situation and say there were setbacks that maybe were beyond that guy’s control. In college, a guy gets fired, ‘He must have been a bad coach.’ Those things Ray rationalized to me, talked to me about, it made sense to me. He was looking for the right fit, and I feel like I was the right fit.”
The Muschamp era begins at Vanderbilt on the Thursday of Week 1, followed by a trip to Mississippi State, a home game against East Carolina and a road game at Kentucky.
Why was this merged? This is a different/new story from his appearance on ESPN radio this week.....