Lane Kiffin to USC

after what TENN did to Majors for fullmer

this is just totally ironic and funny to me

let em burn

I agree.

From some of the stuff that's been reported in the media, Kiffin might've already gotten UT into hot water with the NCAA, so for him it might simply be going from one fryer to another. That would help explain why a reported 10 other candidates, including some with "uncertain" futures, turned USC down before Kiffin quickly jumped at the job. Kiffin was not well liked within the USC athletic dept. by those who had worked with him previously...

Majors was never well liked within the university. He was a hard man to work with and rubbed lots of people the wrong way. It was wrong for UT to dump him the way they did, but they were looking for an excuse already. Sort of like Leach at TT, I think.

As a lifelong UT fan, it's going to really suck to watch these guys become SEC bottom feeders for the next few years as they lose basically an entire recruiting class and go through the normal round of players leaving under the new HC... AGAIN.

i really couldn't care less about a university one way or another




but


ones that screw over coaches and let backstabbers take over

then hire someone like kiffin

then get screwed by someone like kiffin


it's like a mastercard commercial


good luck to tenn

If this was a 'dream job' for Lane, who's to say he's wrong for jumping at his one opportunity?

What's loyalty got to do with it?

/devils advocate


Oh well, as the world turns

Your friendly neighborhood interweb rumor update:

Will Muschamp to be named Tennessee coach as early as tomorrow.

The minute after I heard that Kiffin was gone this was my first thought. Muschamp would be a good fit. Hopefully Tennessee would give him time. They need to earn some respect back in the SEC. Right now I think most have UT pegged as a bunch of punks with little to no discipline. Even our governor is commenting about it.

Or Richt to get fired.

Not the hire I wanted for SC, but anyone replacing Pete is going to have it tough. I am a pretty big Orgeron fan and SC's defense should be just as good, since there will be a great amount of carry over from Pete's concepts to Monte's, what with Pete being a disciple and all.

The report going around is that it was the package deal of Lane Kiffin, Monty Kiffin, and Ed Orgeron that sold USC on the hire. The talks to bring Norm Chow back make it look like Kiffin's putting together another "Dream Scheme" staff at USC, similar to what he did at Tennessee. Lane Kiffin's personality will probably play better in LA than it did in Knoxville and the Southeast.

LK and EO are probably the 2 best recruiters in college football and the USC brass was supposedly very worried about a bad recruiting class sinking the program for a few years. Kiffin already had a very nice recruiting class lined up at UT, most of whom said they committed mostly because they wanted to play for those 3 guys. With signing day still a few weeks away, and a lot of those kids looking at USC anyway, I can see them poaching a few and taking them with them. Under the circumstances, this might look like a brilliant move for USC in the short term.

However, I have my doubts how long it can last for them. In 13 months on the job, Lane Kiffin got more recruiting violations than wins and last year's staff was full of guys who jumped ship for greener pastures after a year. Monty will be 69 and has said he only plans to coach another year or two. Also, if the media reports on Lane Kiffin and Orgeron trying to talk some of Tennessee's freshmen (like Bryce Brown) into transferring to USC are true, that has to be some type of NCAA violation.

I honestly wonder what big time coach would even want the Tennessee job right now. This year's recruiting class is going to evaporate and they'll probably only have about 60-70 legit scholarship players in the SEC next year. Whoever comes next is going to face big time expectations with what's basically a Div. Iaa roster and possibly NCAA sanctions, while fans/media will only give the guy about 2 years to "rebuild" before they demand an SEC title and start calling for his head. This will be an ugly situation for a very long time.

Relating this back to coaching... does anyone know what the heck it is that Lane Kiffin keeps saying in job interviews to land all these great jobs that are beyond his apparent merits? It certainly can't be great references that impress everybody, and he doesn't come across as very charismatic whenever there's a microphone around. I know everyone loves his dad, but Lane has a habit of alienating people. How does he keep getting these jobs!?!?

Not that I'm bias or anything...but if USC gets the death penalty by the NCAA..i won't cry..i promise.

Go Bears.

Sent the best player I ever coached to UT in 2007... In his four years he will have 3 different head coaches. That really sucks for the young man.

I know it is a business and I get it.. Do not get me wrong. I just do have a little bit of an attachment about this. Man I did not see that one coming....