{"id":563697,"date":"2026-04-04T07:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T07:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/563697\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T07:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T07:40:13","slug":"will-muschamp-explains-why-he-made-the-very-easy-decision-to-return-to-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/563697\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Muschamp explains why he made the “very easy decision” to return to Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

The biggest, and maybe the most shocking, coordinator move of the offseason in all of college football was Steve Sarkisian<\/a> replacing Pete Kwiatkowski<\/a> with Will Muschamp<\/a>. Muschamp, who had been on staff at Georgia, returned to Texas after leading the Longhorns defense under Mack Brown<\/a> from 2008-10.<\/p>\n

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Coordinators in Sarkisian\u2019s program rarely speak to the local media, but Muschamp was recently on the Longhorn Network\u2019s Texas and O\u2019s<\/a> with Nick Shuley and Rod Babers<\/a> to discuss a variety of topics. <\/p>\n

First and foremost, why did Muschamp make what he called move No. 14 in his career?<\/p>\n

\u201cVery easy decision and a very quick decision,\u201d Muschamp said. \u201cCoach Sarkisian reached out and asked me if I was interested in coming back to Texas. I asked my wife Carol, she looked at me and said \u2018let\u2019s go tomorrow.\u2019 We\u2019re obviously empty nesters. My youngest son, Whit<\/a>, is at Vanderbilt playing football. My oldest son, Jackson<\/a>, is working for CAA in Nashville. We were really excited to get back to Austin.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur time with Coach Brown here before was unbelievable. The University of Texas does everything in a first-class manner. Nothing\u2019s changed. It\u2019s been that way since we\u2019ve been back. It\u2019s been truly awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n

Austin and Texas has its own appeal, but Muschamp\u2019s return was predicated on working for Sarkisian. Muschamp explained that despite being on opposite sides of the ball, the two were very \u201clike-minded\u201d and run football programs similarly in \u201cevery facet.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always had tremendous respect for him as a play-caller,\u201d Muschamp said. \u201cObviously, when you have respect for a guy that coaches on the other side \u2014 I\u2019ve never been on the same sideline with him, which I\u2019m glad I am now. Very positive. I\u2019ve never known him as the man, but the guy does a phenomenal job with our team. He does a great job managing our staff. He does a great job managing our team. I\u2019ve been so impressed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re obviously very like-minded. People would say \u2018he\u2019s an offensive coach and you\u2019re a defensive coach, how can you be like-minded?\u2019 He grew up with Pete Carroll<\/a> and Nick Saban<\/a>, both defensive coaches. That\u2019s what makes him a great play-caller because he understands defenses very well. Very like-minded because of Coach Saban in the way he runs the program.\u201d<\/p>\n

Muschamp has been a variety of places since leaving Texas. Not only has he been head coach at Florida and South Carolina, he\u2019s also had stints at Auburn and Georgia. <\/p>\n

He noted the traffic in Austin has picked up and that the skyline is a little larger near the 40 Acres, but that since his departure he hasn\u2019t changed and that his expectations are still to field elite defenses.<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t changed. It\u2019s the same. I don\u2019t need any friends. I tell the players all the time if you like me, great. If you don\u2019t, I don\u2019t need any more friends. But I am into coaching and developing, and I feel like we\u2019ll do it better than anyone in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The biggest, and maybe the most shocking, coordinator move of the offseason in all of college football was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,4504,99,177078],"class_list":{"0":"post-563697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-regwall","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-will-muschamp"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}