The Yearly Muschamp Lottery
It’s already time for the annual Will Muschamp Sweepstakes. For those of you who aren’t familiar with this yearly tradition, Tony Barnhart will fill you in:
But the dynamic changed at Texas this week as word came that DeLoss Dodds, one of the best athletics directors in the country, was negotiating an extension to his contract, which previously ran through 2011. There has been talk for several years that when Dodds, 72, retired head football coach Mack Brown would slide into that chair and Muschamp would become the Longhorns’ head coach. But if Dodds remains in place so does Brown, who is only 58 and whose contract runs through 2016 at $5 million per year.
Don’t look now, but Will Muschamp could be available for the 2011 season. Muschamp, the former Georgia Bulldog and current defensive coordinator at Texas, has one of the great deals in college football. He is the coach in waiting to Mack Brown and Texas continues to pay Muschamp handsomely to remain in that spot. Tennessee came calling last January when Lane Kiffin bolted for USC and Muschamp told AD Mike Hamilton that he was staying put in Austin.
This has really become a yearly thing. Every year, whenever a job comes open, Muschamp is usually the first name that pops up. And every year, Muschamp turns down whatever job is offered to him. I don’t think he is leaving Texas anytime soon unless he’s offered at a school like Florida or Alabama (which isn’t going to happen), but I guess the rumors won’t die until Mack Brown hangs it up.
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