Former Texas football DC Will Muschamp fired as South Carolina HC
Former Texas football defensive coordinator/linebackers coach Will Muschamp was let go as the South Carolina Gamecocks after five years.
A former defensive coordinator under the coaching regime of Mack Brown back in the day with the Texas football program got bad news over the weekend. Now former South Carolina Gamecocks head coach and ex-Texas DC Will Muschamp was let go following his team’s letdown of a loss to the Ole Miss Rebels and head coach Lane Kiffin on the road last weekend by the final score of 59-42.
The loss to Ole Miss on Nov. 14 moved Muschamp and the Gamecocks to a record of 2-5 (2-5 SEC) on the season to date. That meant that Muschamp led the Gamecocks to a three-game losing streak before he was fired. The other two losses in that skid came in beatings at the hands of the LSU Tigers and Texas A&M Aggies.
The schedule is by no means easy for South Carolina to round out the regular season. They still have the Mizzou Tigers, Georgia Bulldogs, and Kentucky Wildcats looming throughout the rest of the SEC slate.
Muschamp finished up his run as the South Carolina head coach with a record of 28-30 (.483 winning percentage). And his postseason record with the Gamecocks sat at 1-2. His lone bowl win during his four and a half years as the South Carolina head coach came over head coach Jim Harbaugh and the Michigan Wolverines in the Outback Bowl to cap the 2017 season, which came by the final score of 26-19.
To make the postseason this year, South Carolina would have to win out in their three remaining SEC games. That’s not very likely to happen.
Moreover, Muschamp now holds a career record as an FBS head coach of 56-51 (.523 winning percentage). He registered a much better record during his stint as the head coach of the Florida Gators (for four seasons) than he did with South Carolina.
I get the South Carolina move. It was time. No matter who the coach is or where they are employed, that time comes and it's never easy. But this one stings because Will Muschamp is a genuinely good guy. If you don't think that, you haven't met him.
— Ryan McGee (@ESPNMcGee) November 16, 2020
The results just were not there for Muschamp in the last two seasons. He 6-13 in his last 19 games since the start of the 2019 regular season.
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Muschamp was the Longhorns defensive coordinator/linebackers coach from 2008-2010. He was on staff with Brown on the Forty Acres just prior to getting hired as the Florida head coach heading into the 2011 season.