Well, you can scratch Will Muschamp off everyone’s list. Thanks to the new sensation soon to be sweeping across college football—naming a “coach-in-waiting”—Texas named the 37-year-old Muschamp, in just his first year with the Longhorns, the heir-apparent to Mack Brown’s Big 12 power. With that, here’s what’s hot and cold with all the coaching vacancies:
1. Washington
The Huskies continue to lose. Not only football games (where they sit at 0-10 on the season) and basketball games (tipping off their season with a loss at Portland) but now, it appears, with Texas latching on to Muschamp, they’ve lost out on what appeared to be AD Scott Woodward’s top pick. So that leaves the search to replace Ty at:
HOT:
Jim Mora (Seahawks Asst.)
We know that he has indicated that he plans to remain with the Seahawks, and take over as Head Coach when Mike Holmgren exits in 2009. Nevertheless, there is some recent buzz that the Huskies haven’t have given up going after a man who claimed this was his dream job, and basically lost his Falcons gig for saying so.
Kyle Whittingham (Utah HC)
The more he wins and the closer he gets to a BCS game, the easier the sell job Woodward will have to the fans, alumni, players, etc. that he is a big-time hire and their first choice all along.
Pat Hill (Fresno State HC)
Again, he has a 91-59 record with the Bulldogs (6-4 in 2008) and just the one conference championship, tying for the WAC title in 1999. Still seems like this would be the Huskies settling.
Others (more lukewarm than hot):
Lane Kiffin (former Raiders HC), Brent Venables (Oklahoma DC), Dave Christensen (Missouri OC, former Husky), Bobby Hauck (Montana HC), Steve Sarkisian (USC OC), DeWayne Walker (UCLA DC), Mike Riley (Oregon St. HC), Mike Haywood (Notre Dame OC)
COLD:
Jeff Tedford (California HC)
Much talk about the Cal head coach, but I can’t see the former Oregon OC leaving what he’s built in Berkeley to attempt another rebuilding job in Seattle.
Gary Pinkel (Missouri HC)
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