Brown to Coach Tenn.

Submitted by silverslugger on

"Former USC assistant coach and current Tennessee head coach Lane Kiffin has agreed in principle to replace Pete Carroll as the Trojans' new head coach, according to ESPN and ESPN.com reports. Kiffin reportedly will bring assistant head coach and recruiting coordinator Ed Orgeron to Southern Cal with him, along with defensive coordinator and father, Monte Kiffin. Meanwhile, wide receivers coach Kippy Brown will allegedly be named interim head coach at Tennessee. "

Found this on scout.com

oriental andrew

January 12th, 2010 at 10:50 PM ^

it's true!

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601079&sid=aDwf7dznuZ10

Jan. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Lane Kiffin will return to the University of Southern California as head football coach after one season in the same post at the University of Tennessee.

Kiffin, 34, succeeds Pete Carroll, who resigned Jan. 10 after nine seasons as Trojans coach to join the National Football League’s Seattle Seahawks. Kiffin was offensive coordinator from 2001-06 under Carroll before leaving for the Oakland Raiders, who fired him in September 2008.

Ninja Football

January 12th, 2010 at 11:00 PM ^

Sorry to tell you guys this, (I didn't want to start a thread for fear of a massive board meltdown) BUT.....wots is RichRod to TN. My best friend since 2nd grade went to grad school in Knoxville and works in their sports information department. They've known since Monday that Kiffin was probably leaving. They made contact with RichRod at the National Coaches Conference.

The scuttlebutt is he's sick of all the political BS here, the witchhunt with the Freep, the new AD and ESPECIALLY thinks he's being setup for failure with MRob and Devin not being admitted early. Look for him to try and get them to follow to TN. Rita also misses the South and the warmer weather. TN is preparing an announcement.

EDIT: Regarding recruits- Witty, too. Almost forgot about him.

Ninja Football

January 12th, 2010 at 11:15 PM ^

Well I've been his biggest proponent since he got here, and this was my worst fear. If he would've been given time he would've really turned this thing around and put us on par with TX, OK, USC, etc. Now we're probably looking at Harbaugh and ND type irrelevance.

I knew something was up when I got the voicemail to call my buddy back "ASAP", but I just figured he'd finally gotten engaged, he's been planning on popping the question to his gf of 3 years- he was supposed to do it the day after Christmas but she got stuck at Metro after that bombing thing.

Section 1

January 13th, 2010 at 12:25 AM ^

Tennessee thinks that Rich Rodriguez is one of the best coaches in the country, a guy they'd love get to come on down to Knoxville, and they'd pay him a large fortune to do it. They know that the '08 and '09 seasons at Michigan were not poor reflections on Rich Rodriguez, and would love to hire him no matter what.

That's what I seem to be reading.

Remarkable how the rest of the Detroit media cannot seem to understand any of that.

Section 1

January 13th, 2010 at 12:33 AM ^

Somebody should fucking kill this rumor. Hard. Killed dead.

This is not a gripe with anybody posting here -- no, I'm talking about somebody in our Athletic Department, our (ahem) new Athletic Department. Stand up, be counted.

As David Brandon might say, paraphrasing Bo, the play's been called. So no more discussion, just execute the play that's been called.

befuggled

January 12th, 2010 at 11:15 PM ^

My wife's second cousin's dentist's paperboy's half brother's uncle's parole officer's dermatologist's doberman's groomer's stepson has been dating a woman whose older brother does odd jobs for the primary care doctor of the secretary of the sports information director at Tennessee, and I can tell you it is 100% fact that Tennessee's next coach will be Denard Robinson.

ShockFX

January 13th, 2010 at 9:28 AM ^

Being faster than light, Denard Robinson is actually Tennessee's LAST COACH, he just retired after winning 5 straight BCS championships as player coach. We normal humans have to wait 5 years to learn all this though.

M-Wolverine

January 13th, 2010 at 12:47 AM ^

So, if you're right, we can all hail you as insider king. And if you're wrong, you never post again? Because that's some incendiary stuff to post if there's no basis for it.

I'm still trying to figure out how Devin not enrolling early is a plot against him, when the University admitted him, but the High School wouldn't graduate him in time....

Don

January 13th, 2010 at 7:58 AM ^

you can bet that any rumor, however ridiculous, that RR is going to Knoxville is to my advantage. I think the most likely source for this sort of thing are coaches/boosters/fans of other schools.

TIMMMAAY

January 13th, 2010 at 8:35 AM ^

I seriously hope you are wrong, and if you are, you owe us all a major Epology. Fucking MAJOR!

Someone please confirm or deny this, PRETTY FUCKING PLEASE!