Meet the new boss in Florida: Gators poach Muschamp Texas (Yahoo! Sports) (Yahoo!)

As it transpires, Florida if a coveted young coach whose name has been repeatedly linked to major SEC jobs since its role as a national championship team coordinator and the current employer has always had a thin chance to maintain when provides it right along. It is simply not of that everyone expects.

Union of Florida - Jacksonville Times reports via two anonymous sources tonight as defensive coordinator Texas Will Muschamp is new head coach of the Gators just 72 hours after Urban Meyer has left the throne. They are supported by a pair of reliable sources: Texas site Orangebloods.com and certain former Gator quarter which is probably in a position to know.

Muschamp, 39, is a secondary activity energetic, fun, perfectly willing to complaire in blood and swearing booming. But its defences were always saved him with noise and fury that they own. In Nick Saban LSU staff, Muschamp oversaw three seasons of straight top-10 in total and ratings for 2002-04, including finish no. 1 in categorized along the way, defending a BCS Championship in 2003. Its defences to Auburn as Tommy Tuberville were also the efforts of top-10, helping the Tigers win 20 games in 2006-2007 - including successive victories in Florida - despite the rolling one of offences limpest sec, two years.

In Texas, has triggered a rapid and aggressive D which has led the nation in 2008 bags and then finished no.1 against execution in 2009, the teams combined for 26-2 with five first landed in the final polls. This year, in the Middle stunning collapse of herds, the 5-7, Muschamp defence led the Big 12 authorized yards. When Austin attention turned to the inevitable staff reorganization, its seat as a potential successor Mack Brown has never been in question - if anything, it has accelerated the hypothetical chronology for the transfer of power.

This timeline no longer exists. Florida is not a head coach proven, but it gets not a guy who was be worked up in one of the three or four other jobs at the national level which can be United for resources, infrastructure and the year, front output year recruitment mojo. Muschamp has been linked to the concert for a long time-, if not in Florida or Texas, then to Auburn, the Georgia, LSU, Tennessee or some other power seeking to bring warmer place up and comer in the country. If Texas did had promised him, President of Brown, he reportedly disappeared two years ago. With walls began to swirl around Austin, however, there is not a promise could he prevent employment destination that can be present.

[Update, 8: 51 pm HO] The school makes it official: Muschamp is the man.

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