Louisville football coach Scott Satterfield won’t take the South Carolina job after meeting with them, alienating the Louisville fan base in the process.
The honeymoon is over for Scott Satterfield at Louisville.
Satterfield interviewed for the vacant South Carolina football job that was opened with the firing of Will Muschamp but has declined to take the job. The Gamecocks will have to regroup after swinging and missing on their top target.
Louisiana head coach Billy Napier and Oklahoma assistant Shane Beamer are now viewed as the two leading candidates for the South Carolina job.
Scott Satterfield flirts with South Carolina but intends to stay at Louisville
However, when it comes to Satterfield, he has to work to regain the trust of the fan base that has been through this so many times with Bobby Petrino flirting with other programs and leaving them high and dry.
This is not an uncommon thing for coaches in Satterfield’s position to do, but it doesn’t make it any better of a look. The optics are bad. In his second year at Louisville, Satterfield appears to already be looking for a way out and a way to take the next step on the rung of his career ladder.
UL Coach Scott Satterfield tells @cj_teague that he never was considering going to South Carolina
— Matt Jones (@KySportsRadio) December 5, 2020
He only talked to them because they are close to his parents
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I don’t fault him for exploring, but if I’m a Louisville football fan or anyone in the administration, I feel somewhat betrayed. Satterfield said he just wanted to hear them out and had no intention of leaving Louisville, but try telling your partner that you just flirted with someone else and wanted to hear their pitch despite having no intention of cheating.
That’s not going to go over well and neither will Satterfield’s flirtation with South Carolina.
Of course, the only way to recover from this is to win big. However, if Satterfield wins big, he’ll have the attention and interest from programs bigger than South Carolina. That’s just the double-edged sword of having success at a place like Louisville.
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