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Saturday, January 5, 2008
Why is Muschamp headed to Texas?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
New Orleans-It’s media day at the BCS championship game. Both LSU and Ohio State will bring their entire teams, in uniform without pads, to the Superdome and each will have an hour-long session.
Rarely does any news or anything really interesting come out of this because by now the players and the coaches have been dealing with the media horde for several days and really have their guards up. But if there is news I’ll get back to you this afternoon.
But there is interesting stuff going on elsewhere:
Why is Will Muschamp going to Texas? I tried to reach the Auburn defensive coordinator and former Georgia Bulldog, who has decided to leave Auburn to take the same job at Texas. Based on previous conversations with Will, I know that he really wants to be a head coach sooner rather than later. He saw the fact that Gene Chizik (Iowa State) and Greg Robinson (Syracuse) both used the DC position at Texas as a launching pad to a head coaching job. I just think you can get there as easily from Auburn as you can from Texas. Gotta believe money was involved as well.
What about Jon Tenuta? Looks like he’s going to be busy. LSU is going to need a defensive coordinator after Monday night’s BCS championship game. Auburn’s Tommy Tuberville is going to the coaching convention where he will be looking for a DC. Could Georgia Tech’s Tenuta be going to the SEC? Jeff Casteel, the current defensive coordinator at West Virginia, is thinking about joining Rich Rodriguez at Michigan, according to published reports. If he stays at West Virginia, Tenuta will be a candidate at Michigan.
Another tough year for the ACC: The biggest surprise of the bowl season was the way West Virginia took care of Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl. But the second biggest surprise to me was Virginia Tech losing to Kansas. I thought the Hokies came into the game playing just about as well as anyone. But Kansas played great and deserved to win.
The loss gave the ACC a 2-6 bowl record this season. Since the BCS was founded in 1998, the ACC is now 1-9 in BCS appearances. The only win was Florida State over Virginia Tech (then a member of the Big East) in the 1999 national championship game at the Sugar Bowl.
Mangino a class act: Speaking of Kansas, I got a chance to spend some time with head coach Mark Mangino last night as the Football Writers Association of America honored him as the Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year. To go 12-1 at Kansas is quite a feat. Coach Mangino had been up all night celebrating the Orange Bowl victory with his players and staff and then flew straight from Miami to accept the award. He was very gracious and very appreciative. He told me that the challenge now is to sustain the program, something that has been difficult to do at Kansas.
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