1 » Hired as the Florida Gators new head coach as the team was preparing for the 2011 Outback Bowl, Will Muschamp was immediately thrown into the fire. He continues to be busy day-in and day-out, from morning to night, figuring out what schemes he will run, who he will be looking at as starters and who his staff will concentrate on recruiting in 2012. Muschamp spoke with a handful of writers on Friday and relayed his high level of excitement about the upcoming season, his first as a head coach. He also told them that he plans to keep the traditions former head coach Urban Meyer added to the program – singing the fight song and alma mater after victories, the Gator Walk, etc. – while making sure to participate in multiple Gator Club speaking engagements. “I’m going to do as many as I can,” he said, according to The Gainesville Sun. “I think it’s important to get out and meet the people who fill the stadium.”
Muschamp even went into a bit of detail about the type of head coach he will be. “As a leader or in a leadership role, you have to be yourself,” he said. “I’m not a CEO. That’s not my M.O. I’m going to be involved with the players. I’ve always envisioned myself in that [head coaching] chair, but when you get in it, it’s different. Still, I enjoy scheming. I like drawing up Xs and Os. As a head coach, you can get pulled away from that job. That’s not going to happen.”
2 » Meyer was a guest on 1070 the Fan in Indianapolis, IN and discussed a number of topics about his future now that he is no longer coaching. You can read the entire transcript here or listen to it below, but we have also included a few choice quotes:
On a feature he may do with ESPN: “The next thing is going to be the draft and spring practice, and then we are talking about doing a series before the season ‘Training Camp’ like a coaching one-on-one where you break down offense, defense, kicking game and I really look forward to doing that.”
On if he will ever coach again: “I don’t know. I don’t know that but everybody keeps asking me that. I was watching that Super Bowl and sitting there, if you could just do the part of coaching that is allowed and not have to worry about all of that nonsense that has really developed in the college game, that is what I am familiar with. It is out of control with that stuff right now and we have got to get that back on track. 25 years ago, and I am sure you know, if you had to deal with some of the stuff you are dealing with the off-the-field, the agent issues, the violation issues and all the garbage that is out there right now I certainly would not have gotten into coaching. Hopefully with the powers that be and all the right people, I know one thing the NFL Commissioner has got a great outlook the way he is attacking the NFL right now and trying to bring respect and order, and I just love the way he is approaching it. If college football gets that we will have a chance to get back to that great game we all love.”
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