Mack Brown says "Will is too good of a coach to stay here" as coach-in-waiting
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 | Football, Men's Golf, Scott Carter
In a recent sit-down interview with Pete Thamel of the New York Times, Texas coach Mack Brown discussed numerous topics.
One of them, of course, was the departure of former Longhorns defensive coordinator/coach-in-waiting Will Muschamp.
After three seasons on Brown's staff, Muschamp was targeted by Gators athletic director Jeremy Foley soon after Urban Meyer resigned in December. Muschamp was hired as Florida's head coach less than 10 days later.
Here is what Brown had to say about Muschamp:
"I think that Will and I, when we got into the coach-in-waiting thing, we did it for the right reasons,'' Brown said. "I did it with [athletic director] DeLoss [Dodds] and Bill Powers because I thought it was a corporate move that kept people in place. It worked for us for two of the three years, we were second in the country and third in the country.
"In retrospect, there really has to be a one-year limit. Will is too good of a coach to stay here, and there's some question marks that pop up: 'How long am I going to stay?' It got to, 'Mack's tired. Mack's old. When is he going to quit?' I don't think it works well unless it's one year, two years max and there's a set plan in place. We didn't have a plan. I think that's another thing that made it very difficult last year. It set up questions on the outside for the kids to have to answer last year.''
You can click here to read the entire Q&A with Brown.
