The fiery coach, who is in his fourth season at Florida, has finished in the top 25 just once, and his team is already off to a disappointing 3-3 start. The wins have come against Eastern Michigan, Kentucky and Tennessee, while the losses have been to Alabama, LSU and Missouri. Florida’s most recent game, a 42-13 loss to Missouri, was so embarrassing that only two players remained on the field after the loss to sing the school’s alma mater.
Florida has struggled on offense this season, ranking 119th in total yards, but that has been a theme since Muschamp started. Since he was hired in 2011, the Gators have ranked 98th, 97th and 114th nationally in total offense.
Florida’s starting quarterback Jeff Driskel, whom many thought would be one of the better returning QBs in the SEC, has been disappointing for most of the season. In his last four games, Driskel has thrown for 385 yards and two touchdowns while throwing nine interceptions.
The Gators even hired Kurt Roper as a new offensive coordinator this year. Roper held the same position at Duke for six seasons, leading an offense that broke many of the school’s records. The problem for the Gators seems to be in the coaching, because the school has had top-10 recruiting classes since Muschamp was hired, but they can’t put it together to create a winning team. Muschamp just seems like a coach that is in over his head.
Don’t get me wrong, Muschamp is a great defensive mind and has been since his days as defensive coordinator at Texas, but he is no longer the man for the job. A program like Florida has the money and power to find whoever they want to coach their football team. There are plenty of candidates for the position if (more realistically, when) Muschamp is fired.
They could go for Mississippi State head coach Dan Mullen, who used to be the offensive coordinator at Florida, or they could go for Clemson defensive coordinator Brent Venables, whose name seems to come up whenever there is a head coaching vacancy. They make their move, whoever they get will do a better job than the one Muschamp has done in his time with the program.
