SEC fans evenly split on the future of Muschamp and Kiffin
By Kevin Duffey
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Continuing our look at how SEC fans are voting this month on a number of SEC topics, today we turn to the SEC coaches.
Specifically, we asked readers across the 14 fanbases which former head coach / current coordinator will be a more successful head coach in the future: Will Muschamp or Lane Kiffin?
After thousands of votes were collected, the result was an even split: 50 percent voted for Will Muschamp and 50 percent voted for Lane Kiffin. Yep, SEC fans are evenly split on this topic.
Both Muschamp and Kiffin are two of the more interesting and controversial coordinators in the SEC. Each of these coaches are well respected at their respective coordinator positions while their ability to be a successful head coach at a major program remains hotly debated. Making the situation more interesting of course is the fact that Kiffin coaches the offense and Muschamp coaches the opposing defense in one of the top rivalries in all of college football.
With both coaches being relatively young (Kiffin is 40, Muschamp is 43), it seems like a safe bet that both individuals will have a shot at being a head coach at some point in the future.
Muschamp has an overall record as head coach of 28-21. His records during his four seasons as the Florida head coach were as follows: 7-6, 11-2, 4-8, 6-5.
Kiffin’s head coach experience spans both the NFL level and the collegiate level. With the Oakland Raiders, Kiffin went 4-12 in 2007 and 1-3 in 2008 before an ugly mid-season exit. Kiffin is 35-21 at the collegiate level which includes one season as the Tennessee head coach and four seasons as the head coach of the USC Trojans.
In the same fan survey, we asked fans which SEC head coach they would want to take over their team if the coach of their team quit or were fired today. The results are as follows:
Are the results surprising to you? Obviously, Nick Saban tops the list. Are fans surprised at how high Butch Jones is compared to, say, Kevin Sumlin?
A graduate of the University of Florida and founder of Saturday Down South, Kevin is a college football enthusiast.
