🏈 Barn has offered Muschamp.

[TerryP]

What's interesting to me in all of this, Florida is still paying him the walking full price.

Florida didn't have a clause in the contract for a first time head coach that reduces their buyout when he accepts another job. I'm shocked.

Muschamp is now the highest paid assistant in college football.

The one thing worth noting, and I believe it'll come up again, is there is a clause that keeps Boom from recruiting any players that UF is also recruiting.
How will that work out if they (AU) end up getting one of those kids on campus for a visit?

 

['65 Cobra]

@TerryP - is that clause still in effect even if Muschamp was fired as opposed to leaving of his own volition?

 

[TerryP]

@TerryP - is that clause still in effect even if Muschamp was fired as opposed to leaving of his own volition?

I read over his contract when he was fired and to the best of my recollection there weren't any caveat's in that language. The "ban" from recruiting the same players and the point the buyout was 6 milllion, with or without future employment, are what stuck out to me.

 

[PhillyGirl]

So he's Auburn's new DC .. and we put up 600+ yards against him this year .. Sounds good to me!

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

The one thing worth noting, and I believe it'll come up again, is there is a clause that keeps Boom from recruiting any players that UF is also recruiting.
How will that work out if they (AU) end up getting one of those kids on campus for a visit?

I'm sure they send Muschamp to the library and call or text him after the recruit(s) left campus.

 

[Bamabww]

HURT: Five reasons Muschamp hire caused a stir

Cecil Hurt
TideSports.com Columnist

There is really no need to add to the already-existing Everest-sized mountain of evidence that Alabama, more than any other state in the USA or the known universe, is crazy about college football.

If you didn't know it long before the Will Muschamp explosion Saturday, when a defensive coordinator hire was accompanied by a full-sized press conference and live radio coverage out of Auburn, you have been missing the point for a long time.

But why did Auburn's move attract so much attention? Here, in the soon-to-be-vanished David Letterman tradition, is a top five list of explanation, with some speculation mixed in. Space considerations claimed half the list.

1. Muschamp, regardless of his Florida results, is a proven coordinator and recruiter. It's a very good hire. Ten minutes after UF released him, I suggested Auburn should hire him immediately, and I was neither alone or prescient in that suggestion.

2. No Alabama-Auburn outcome is quiet. The game echoes, loudly, and for the losing side, the more quickly you can do something to muffle those echoes, to wrench the conversation away from the scoreboard and on to the future, the better a fan base feels. Ellis Johnson's defense was struggling going into this year's game, but giving up 55 points to Alabama was simply intolerable. Now, Auburn fans will talk about "next year" every time an Alabama fan mentions the score or whenever the Crimson Tide appears on television, which is going to be a lot, given the massive hype of the College Football Playoff.

3. Related to point No. 2 is that Alabama and Auburn fans live to argue with one another, firing off volleys of statistics in each direction like so many ballistic missiles in a Cold War turned hot. Most of those statistics don't have a very powerful warhead. We can argue endlessly over the relevance of Muschamp's serving as the Auburn defensive coordinator in a 2007 win over Saban's first Alabama team, or of Alabama's blowout wins against Muschamp's Florida team. The fact is, both occurred in a context that isn't applicable any more and doesn't mean much for the future. Auburn's offensive style will affect its defensive statistics, just as Alabama's dominant defenses of a year ago were enhanced by its very different offensive style.

4. This is Auburn's "Lane Kiffin" hire. I can see the comparison - highly-regarded young coach doesn't work out as the head coach of a marquee school (USC, Florida) and returns to the assistant coaching ranks with great fanfare and success. But the circumstances of the hire are entirely different. Muschamp has been a prized target for several schools since Florida let him go. Kiffin's candidacy flew under the radar. The general reaction when Saban hired him was skepticism. So there is a lot of revisionism necessary if you want to equate the two stories.

5. This is a watershed moment economically. There is no arguing that point. Muschamp will be the most highly-paid assistant coach in America, earning somewhere upwards of $1.6 million annually. To put that in context, when Alabama fired its head coach, Mike Shula, in November 2006, his salary was $1.55 million - and that was after a raise and extension the year before.

There are many more points that can be made, of course, and I am fully confident Auburn fans will make them boomingly for the next 12 months. Because this, after all, is the craziest college football state in the country by a wide margin. That's the one thing that none of us argue about.

https://alabama.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1715312

 

[rammerjammer]

I wonder how long he will be there. If he does as well as he has always done as a DC, he will be like Kiffen and be talked about for jobs at mid-majors. Houston, Southern Miss, etc.....until he can get back to a big time program.

 

[gumboman]

They just hired their next head coach