UF Hires Will Muschamp as new head coach

"This is a dream come true to be the head coach of the Florida Gators," said Muschamp, who spent 10 years of his childhood living on 27th Street in this city. "I grew up watching the Gators and whatever
other SEC team was on television. I have great memories watching SEC football with my father on Saturdays and playing football in the backyard with my two brothers right here in Gainesville." Will Muschamp

There is something very special about returning to your hometown, especially for your dream job.  When I was in college at UF, I remember many fellow students who dreamed of working at their hometown television stations.  Several of them grew up in Miami or West Palm, which are major market television stations.  That meant they would have to go to a couple of smaller markets first, then work their way up to the big time.  My goal was to work at my hometown t.v. station too, but for me that was small market Gainesville.  You might think that would be easy to achieve, but at that time there was only one t.v. station here and the news director didn't hire recent college grads.  Even if you had the experience, there were only a handful of positions and of those positions only a couple would be for a female anchor or reporter so the odds were never in my favor.  It would be six years and several applications before I finally got a job there as the morning anchor. 

I'm amazed when I think of all the things that have to come together for a person to land a highly coveted job.  It's even more amazing when that person comes full-circle.  Often, the seeds of a dream are planted at home and sometimes they are fulfilled there too.