Florida's Muschamp lowers the 'boom' to spark Gators
by USA Today
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Sitting passively on a couch in his office, Will Muschamp neither looks nor sounds like the man they call "Coach Boom'' because of his well-documented sideline explosions. Those outbursts occur in his other "office'' — the football field. At this moment, the fireball Florida coach is a portrait of proper decorum.

Muschamp, 41, has earned a reputation for haranguing officials and boisterously chest-bumping his players. The vein-popping coach remains a popular bulls-eye for television cameras. Still, Muschamp is attempting to dial back some of his gusto on game day, but not because he cares what people think.

"I've tried to temper some things on the sideline from my first year so things I can't control don't upset me,'' the coach of the No. 3 Gators told USA TODAY Sports ahead of Saturday's game against archrival Georgia.

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