The college football coaching fraternity will rarely turn on brothers within the coaching circles, for the most part. This holds especially true when one coach loses his job. So don’t look for Alabama head coach Nick Saban to be kicking outgoing Florida head coach Will Muschamp on his way out of Gainesville.
Muschamp will coach the final two games of Florida’s 2014 season, but will not coach any potential bowl game. Florida announced the program will part ways with the head coach at the end of the season. Saban has Muschamp’s back, suggesting the Gators coach helped make the Gators program better. So, take that Urban Meyer?
“I don’t care what’s happened to Will in his circumstance, he did a really good job, in my opinion of making that program better,” Saban said Wednesday, per Al.com. “He did a great job of recruiting. He was a great competitor out there in recruiting and I think he did a really good job coaching the team.”
Florida is sitting on five wins with two games to play after winning just four games last season. The Gators won seven games in Muschamp’s first season replacing Meyer, who retired at the time following the 2010 season. Florida won 11 games and reached the Sugar Bowl an a top five ranking in Muschamp’s second season, but it went downhill from there with an offense that lacked consistency.
“There were just some parts of the team that never did as well as people’s expectations and that’s the business that we’re in.”