Will Muschamp brought it up before he could be asked.
“There will be a lot of chatter about hot seat business,” the Florida coach said Monday at SEC Media Days. “That’s part of it. The way you combat that is having a winning football team and winning football games, which is what we’re going to do.”
The Gators had a dismal season a year ago, going 4-8 overall and 3-5 in SEC play. The season ended with seven consecutive losses, including defeats to both Georgia and Georgia Southern. The downward spiral invited hot-seat talk despite the injuries that decimated the team.
In three seasons under Muschamp, Florida is 22-16 overall and 13-11 in the SEC. The Gators were 7-6 (3-5) in Muschamp’s first season and 11-2 (7-1) in his second.
Now he enters Year 4 on the hot seat.
“Control the controllable is always what I’ve said,” said Muschamp, a former Georgia player. “I haven’t always practiced it, but I try and just control the things I can control. That’s coaching our football team, developing our football team.
“There was never any time in my mind I didn’t think I would be retained (for this season). It’s the great thing about having an athletic director like Jeremy Foley, who has a strong pulse on not only our program but every program in the athletic department. At the end of the day, he understood the circumstances we dealt with.”
Muschamp said he expects this season’s team to be his “most complete” at Florida “in all three phases” of the game.
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