Slightly OT: Student written Kiffin Article on ESPN

Bummed? Yes. Pissed? Probably a little, but more at the situation and less at the person. Writing private phone numbers on the rock? Definitely not.

MSU may be the leasy classy school in the Big Ten and they would handle this infinitely better.

Yeah, I didn't get that either. Thanks.

There are several things that make Lane Kiffin a special case:

1. He is leaving Tennessee after committing a host of secondary violations, and quite possibly several major ones (re: Hostesses/Escorts/Succubi). By leaving, he leaves a lot of heat on the Tennessee program while escaping it himself (well, not really, since he's going to USC, where there are probably even bigger violations).

2. He allegedly attempted to take Tennessee recruits with him. While I believe the story is being overblown here, it still is very poor form to make any effort to take recruits with you when you leave for a new school.

3. Lane Kiffin was a very risky hire for Tennessee. He had a poor track record in his only head-coaching job, and was embroiled in a very nasty firing. He then proceded to embarrass the university by mouthing off about various things he knew nothing about, like what NCAA regulations are. Tennessee stoutly defended him in every single instance. So, it seems fair to say that Lane Kiffin owed Tennessee some degree of loyalty. He showed absolutely none.

4. One-and-done coaches are inherently sketchy (for lack of a better term). When a new coach shows up, they begin by attempting to get the university and alumni to buy into both thee program and themselves. They lay out their goals and promise to do all in their power to fulfill them. By leaving after one year, it is rare that their goals are fulfilled and clear that the coach didn't particularly care about them. Basically, it leaves the university feeling like the coach used them (which, notably, is generally true).

A Case of Blue,

I would expand your theory to all schools where they are the primary sporting attraction in the state. This would also include the West Virginia fanbase, who still seems unable to let RR go after more than two years........

I place the blame more on Tennessee than Kiffin for this whole fiasco. The Tennessee football grave was dug when they decided to fire their coach of 17 years.

"The bigger programs in the south have crazy fans who think nothing invading the privacy of the families of those who arouse either their competitive nature or their ire." I'm not trying to piss anyone off just trying to show that things like this happen all the time for instance this blog. Whatever that asshats name was whos personal info got posted on here. I'd say we have some crazy fans too...and thats a good thing nobody wants to mess with a crazy mf.

Though I'd be willing to be a fair number of folks from Tennessee have said that before.

Clearly from the phone number on the rock his wife still had 310 (LA) cell digits. He probably took the USC job because they were out of minutes and wanted to avoid incurring roaming charges.