Tennessee Tech hires Temple assistant Satterfield

COOKEVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee Tech has hired Temple offensive coordinator Marcus Satterfield as its football coach.

Satterfield spent the last three years at Temple, but he has a Tennessee background. Satterfield, who is 39, played at East Tennessee State and spent four seasons at Chattanooga’s offensive coordinator and three years as an assistant at UT-Martin.

He was a graduate assistant at Tennessee for two years and also worked as an assistant at Richmond and Western Carolina.

In a school release Monday, Satterfield said that “as a coach’s son growing up in the state of Tennessee and coaching in the state and the Ohio Valley Conference, I have always looked at Tennessee Tech as a possible landing spot for me.”

Satterfield replaces Watson Brown, who retired after going 42-60 in nine seasons.

Treadwell to enter draft

Mississippi receiver Laquon Treadwell is heading to the NFL, announcing Monday that he will declare for the draft three days after catching three touchdown passes in the Sugar Bowl.

The school released a statement Monday announcing Treadwell’s decision.

The 6- foot- 2, 210- pound junior leaves Ole Miss with several school records and led the Southeastern Conference with 1,153 yards receiving this season.

Treadwell’s decision isn’t surprising: He’s widely considered a first- round pick three years after being one of the nation’s top recruits.

Swinney optimistic Lawson will play

Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said he is “very optimistic” All-American Shaq Lawson will play in the national title game against Alabama after the defensive end missed most of the Tigers’ semifinal victory with a knee injury.

Lawson leads the Tigers ( 14- 0) with 10 1/ 2 sacks and is tops in the country with 23 1/ 2 tackles for loss. The junior sprained his left knee in the first quarter of Clemson’s 37- 17 victory against Oklahoma and hardly played the rest of the game.

The top- ranked Tigers ( 140) face No. 2 Alabama (13-1) on Monday in Glendale, Ariz.

Muschamp hires Roper

COLUMBIA, S. C. — Will Muschamp’s last offensive coordinator at Florida is joining South Carolina in a similar role.

New Gamecocks coach Muschamp said Monday he had hired Kurt Roper as co- offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. Roper spent this season as an assistant for the Cleveland Browns. The NFL team dismissed head coach Mike Pettine and general manager Ray Farmer after finishing a 3-13 season Sunday.

Roper and former Georgia interim head coach Bryan McClendon will share coordinator duties.

Roper worked with Muschamp at Florida in 2014, then was let go after Muschamp’s dismissal after that season. Roper also spent five seasons as Duke’s offensive coordinator.

Muschamp was named South Carolina’s coach last month, taking over the position after Steve Spurrier walked away in mid- season. Shawn Elliott was interim coach the final six games.

Muschamp said he believes South Carolina is not that far from being the same kind of football program that went 33-6 over a three-season stretch from 2011 to 2013.

He’s been working the last month to return the program to those lofty levels.

“We’re not far off. We need to continue to work and understand where we are and where we want to go,” Muschamp told The Associated Press on Monday.