You don't think there's any rational, adult reason to want Muschamp fired?
In year 4 of his tenure:
Muschamp may have modernized and used all the right catch phrases when it comes to recruiting, but check the rankings - we're still right in the same range Spurrier had us in on an national level. If we're keeping Muschamp based solely on his alleged recruiting prowess, that's bad logic because it appears that's just the type of class Carolina pulls in.
Jake Bentley is a hard working guy who seems very intelligent, and I believe purely looking at physical tools, he has all the talent to be an excellent QB in this league. However, for whatever reason, the mental aspect has never been there for him. It seems like he panics, and tries to do too much, and it leads to turnovers and overthrows. Now, when your QB isn't getting it done, you either coach him up and fix it, or replace him. We did neither, and that is a failure on the part of our coaching staff. Why did Scarnecchia not see a single series in another game last year after he beat Missouri?
The way to build up recruiting and show progress is to win a game here and there that you probably shouldn't. The so called "signature win." People defending Muschamp have pointed out again and again that it took Spurrier several years of mediocre results to get us to those 11-2 seasons, and they're right. However, during those early years, Spurrier was pretty regularly defeating ranked opponents. We were knocking off ranked Florida, Tennessee, Georgia, and Clemson teams during those years. We came into big games ready to play. What would you say is our best big game performance under Muschamp? Beating the collapsing Tennessee team in his first year, or losing by 3 scores and giving up 56 points to Clemson last year? Those are really the only two options.
Muschamp is supposed to be a defensive master. He had incredible defenses during his failed tenure at Florida, so if nothing else, I think everyone expected an uptick on that side of the ball under his watch. So far, his defense is flat out bad. We gave up 450+ yards to a UNC team coming off a 2 win season with a true freshman quarterback making his very first start. And worse, we looked like our biggest issue was the most basic, fundamental thing you do on defense: tackling. Maybe that can be fixed in two weeks, but I suspect when Alabama rolls into town we are going to get our heads caved in, and if our defense looks like it did against UNC, it's going to be humiliating for a lot of guys on our "deepest, most talented team yet."
Every single year, we are told that the offense is going to get more aggressive and try to make more explosive plays. We are now in year four of hearing that same song and dance every single offseason after another disappointing season on the offensive side of the ball. Last year the offense improved quite a bit versus the Kurt Roper era, which was good. However, Muschamp still has to be held responsible for hiring Kurt Roper in the first place. That is a literal repeat of a mistake he made at Florida.
Secondly, did you watch the UNC game? We came out conservative, vanilla, and anything but explosive. The announcers said it ten million times: South Carolina looked like the team trying to protect its freshman QB, and that, along with our total incompetent tackling, got us another embarrassing loss in the Will Muschamp era.
How many more games are we going to build leads, like Florida last year and Texas A&M the year before, only to watch our team go into a shell and choke? Is that Spurrier's fault too?
I think there are plenty of rational, adult reasons to want Muschamp to be fired. It's not childish or irrational to take a critical view of your program. Blind loyalty is only a positive for the person or group on the receiving end of it, because it's a license to take advantage of devotees.
Maybe Muschamp will prove the world wrong, but I'll believe it when I see it and him saying all the right things in press conferences won't convince me when what I see on the field says this is the same man that failed at Florida.
