One of the stories at the time was that Mack had told Muschamp - who, as you know, had been designated as Head Coach in Waiting - that he was going to retire at the end of the season. Apparently, that was based on walking away with another National Championship and when Colt went down and the backup was not even close to ready for the stage... Muschamp was pissed as hell when Mack changed his mind abut retiring after the loss to 'Bama, and felt Mack had lied to him. Having ridden Colt McCoy hard for four years, Mack had nothing left in the QB room, and the OL was already bad. 2010 was an all-time disaster, and at the end, Muschamp was able to convince the Cigars to dump GDGD, but Mack silver-tongued his way into refusing to hire Holgo the Barbarian based on his lifestyle rather than his OCing abilities, and pulled Harsin out of Boise instead, but saddled him with Applewhite.
Muschamp never amounted to anything as a Head Coach, but I can't help wondering how 2010 and the next few years would have been with Coach Boom in the driver's seat and Holgorsen running the Offense... How much worse could it have been?