Here's what I'm hearing:
Muschamp wants to keep dealings with Auburn under wraps until the dotted line is officially signed, for obvious reasons. If something fell through in the process of getting to AU, he doesn't want to have to go back to Texas like nothing happened and put the rest of his future in jeopardy. To further the cover up, he requested that AU put up some major smoke screens, like going up to the convention in NYC to "interview" "viable" "candidates" for the "coaching" job. So what better person to send on the fake mission of finding a head coach than an AD who is likely to get fired soon anyway. All this to say, you haven't, and you're not, going to hear much more, if anything more, about this until it's more than official. Sources have already said that Muschamp has already called all the internet outlets that are reporting this and told them to keep their F-in mouths shut. Which he followed up with a BOOM M-F-er! More to come, don't wanna spill all the beans.
So... FWIW, that's the story behind Muschamp at the present...