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Texas athletic director DeLoss Dodds is upset with a new NCAA rule that will severely limit the recruiting process for "publicly designated" coaches in waiting.The Longhorns, of course, designated defensive coordinator Will Muschamp as Mack Brown's replacement a year ago in order to keep other programs from pursuing the hot assistant coach. But under this new NCAA guideline, any designated coach would be viewed as a head coach and would be subject to the same restrictions.
Chief among those limitations is that the head coach designate would only be allowed one off-campus visit with a recruit. That would also mean just one off-campus visit during the spring evaluation period from April 15 - May 31, which most assistant coaches view as vital in the recruiting process.
Dodds feels like the new rule has been put in place to "single out" UT. Only the Longhorns and Maryland have publicly stated head coaching designates. Maryland offensive coordinator James Franklin is set to take over whenever Ralph Friedgen steps aside.
"Obviously, since this legislation impacts only two programs in the country, we feel we are being singled out," Dodds said in released statement. "We are exploring our options for legislative relief within the NCAA process, since we believe this places our program at a direct disadvantage.
"Will is our head coach-in-waiting but he is also our defensive coordinator, and this legislation restricts his ability to perform his current job duties.''
Apparently the NCAA instituted the new guideline in an effort to not give a school a competitive advantage after the governing body moved to limit the number of off-campus visits a head coach can have.
There has been no set timetable for Brown to step aside and for Muschamp to take over. In the meantime, however, he is the highest paid assistant coach in the country at $900,000 per year.
The head coach designate has become popular in recent years with Florida State designating offensive coordinator Jimbo Fisher to take over when Bobby Bowden retired and at Kentucky Joker Phillips was picked as the successor to Rich Brooks. Both designates assumed their new rules this offseason.
Texas will have an opportunity to get the rule overturned during the NCAA meetings in the spring.
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