Gators Get a Good One in Muschamp

Texas defensive coordinator Will Muschamp has been hired as the new head football coach at the University of Florida.

Muschamp, who is a 15-year assistant coach who joined the Longhorns' staff in 2008, will replace Urban Meyer after his sudden resignation on Wednesday. An official announcement is pending the dotting on "I's" and crossing of "T's".

Muschamp is a former University of Georgia player who had originally agreed to be the coach in waiting, and take the head coaching position at Texas when Mack Brown decides to retire.

The Associated Press is also reporting that Muschamp has been hired, citing a source.  Muschamp is considered one of the nation's premier defensive coordinators and was a 2007 Broyles Award Finalist (nation's top assistant coach). He joined the Longhorns' after spending the previous two years as defensive coordinator at Auburn.

In his five years as a coordinator at Auburn and LSU, Muschamp's defenses ranked among the nation's top 10 in total defense five times and scoring defense three times.

The Gators get a good young coach.  The only downside, he has never been a head coach before.