January 12th, 2010 at 11:55 PM ^
http://i736.photobucket.com/albums/xx8/govols1234/Unnamed.jpg
A picture is worth 1000 words.
January 13th, 2010 at 1:25 AM ^
Students dragging his wife into this is just uncalled for.
January 13th, 2010 at 7:24 AM ^
I was expecting something like that.
It's basically like Kiffin said, "Here. Let me come in and screw around with your program for one season, make you a laughing stock, and then take off."
January 13th, 2010 at 7:45 AM ^
Reminds me of Ray Finkle's room.
January 13th, 2010 at 7:51 AM ^
LACES OUT! LACES OUT!
January 12th, 2010 at 11:56 PM ^
WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?!
January 13th, 2010 at 12:02 AM ^
I feel for you, dude.
That press conference tomorrow morning is going to SUUUUUCKK!
January 13th, 2010 at 12:03 AM ^
and what a scummy man
just give him half a chance
I'll bet he'll rob you if you can...
it's all not quite legitimate
January 13th, 2010 at 12:36 AM ^
Can see it in his eyes, yeah
That he's got a driving ban
Amongst some other offenses...
how did you not find the part about the "other offenses" relevant? haha
+1 for the Arctic Monkeys reference through
January 13th, 2010 at 12:29 AM ^
How does Kiffin know where the bodies are buried? HOW?!?!?!
January 13th, 2010 at 12:49 AM ^
This couldn't have gone any better at all.
The Michigan students living in 4th Stockwell feel this way about it:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3766165&l=ff382c93c5&id=706810775
January 13th, 2010 at 1:21 AM ^
edsbs's reaction is the best. Full of win. Especially since his maniacal laughter spans TWO tweets.
January 13th, 2010 at 1:25 AM ^
Kiffin has such a huge ego that he thinks he can succeed even with the inevitable sanctions that will arise from an era for which he was partially responsible. Most other coaches were avoiding this job like the possible career-killer that it could turn out to be, and would prefer to be the coach who comes in to clean up the mess in a few years.
I'm not surprised at all. I heard a decent rumor that Kiffin was posssibly in contact with them this morning and predicted he would take the job in my yahoogroup called the maize page, where the standards for accuracy aren't nearly as high as they are here, and stupid predictions and/or unsubstantiated rumors are welcome.
Kiffin might make it harder to poach any of their current recruits. I know he'll probably be following the rules now because the NCAA is up their butts, but he still worked wonders at UT, and he must be pretty charismatic and dynamic in person.
Hopefully, though, Kiffin does what many think he will and has a meltdown of Weis-ian proportions. The Rose Bowl is a lot more fun when USC isn't the home team.
January 13th, 2010 at 1:32 AM ^
What coaches were avoiding this job like the plague? Fisher and Del Rio both make more money in the NFL than even Carroll was making at USC and have had incredibly long tenures with their current teams. Mike Riley grew up around OSU football, loves it in Corvallis (where he can go 8-4 and be King), and didn't want the added pressure of coaching at SC. He's also been extremely grateful for the second chance he got at OSU after leaving once to take the Chargers job.
These are the only guys SC seriously considered before hiring Kiffin and all seem more than happy with their current jobs. Acting like coaches avoided this job is like saying ND failed in their search because Stoops and Meyer turned them down.
January 13th, 2010 at 8:08 AM ^
Those are the only coaches who publicly turned the job down. You also forgot about Mariucci, who doesn't seem to have much else going on right now.
January 13th, 2010 at 1:32 AM ^
Agreed, but Kiffin is surrounded by a stud staff. And even if he doesn't maintain the USC gravy boat, it'll buy them time to find a better coach.
I was reading the Wetzel column that the sanctions are probably not back breaking. He pointed out Alabama and OU both played in MNC games while being punished. So if SC doesn't get rocked, it'll be the most attractive destination for top flight coaches (Del Rio, Fischer, Gruden...etc).
January 13th, 2010 at 6:02 AM ^
His record as a head coach is 12-21.
Could Al Davis have gotten it right once since Madden?
January 13th, 2010 at 8:12 AM ^
Al Davis is still senile. Kiffin was in a no-win situation at Oakland. It was his 1st year at Tennessee so you have to give him a pass since Tennessee offense is terrible but their defense is rock solid(thanks to the talent and the coaching. In other words, you can't make a judgement on him as a coach.
With that being said, I hate Kiffin.
January 13th, 2010 at 6:04 AM ^
I bet Tommy Tuberville wishes that he could have waited a week longer.
January 13th, 2010 at 6:45 AM ^
Went through the roof with this hire.
January 13th, 2010 at 7:23 AM ^
It certainly keeps the program in the news, I'll give them that.
January 13th, 2010 at 7:26 AM ^
how does someone so consistently fail upwards? I want the secret!
January 13th, 2010 at 7:31 AM ^
seems to work well.
January 13th, 2010 at 8:21 AM ^
Isn't that called the Peter principle - the hierarchy is college football?
January 13th, 2010 at 8:54 AM ^
The Peter Principle states that everyone gets promoted until they reach a level at which they're incompetent and then they stick there, the end result being that everyone sucks at their job. Fortunately, in practice firings/demotions happen. See, e.g., Charlie Weis.
January 13th, 2010 at 10:30 AM ^
Aaaand we get to witness another press conference with Mrs. Kiffin all decked out, this time in Garnet and Gold.
For that photo op, I hope Lane continues to switch jobs every 14 months. More Mrs. Kiffin-at-the-press-conference photos!!
January 13th, 2010 at 7:40 AM ^
The hire of the walking secondary violation that is Lane Kiffin seems to fly in the face of logic. With the current investigation of the school and the Bball team being told they can't self sanction why would you go out and hire Kiffin. I hope the NCAA really lays the wood to them now.
January 13th, 2010 at 10:48 AM ^
I guess USC is saying come on NCAA, we knwo you have no teeth ....
January 13th, 2010 at 7:46 AM ^
But if I was the father of a stud football player anywhere from 18-10 years old, I wouldn't want that prick anywhere near my son, his school, his football field, his phone, his facebook account, his medical records, or even the local mall. I might even go so far as to contact the local authorities about a PFA or something.
More than anyone else, this guy is screwing with kids' lives and is bad for football.
January 13th, 2010 at 8:55 AM ^
Listening to Harbaugh and Kiffin go at it!
January 13th, 2010 at 9:06 AM ^
....no more of that silly, "buy the car for the girlfriend" bit.
Lane is the former recruiting coordinator, so he already knows how to cheat.
Can you believe that with USC's track record of car buying and annual NFL combine steroid test failures......hey let's investigate Michigan, where players want to work too hard.
January 13th, 2010 at 9:36 AM ^
At the very worst, the NCAA is going to do nothing more than politely and diffidently slap USC on the wrist, and will ask for permission first. A couple of scholarships might be yanked, but in the long run that won't mean a damn thing to Kiffin or USC.
I have no love for Alabama or LSU or Florida or FSU or Texas or ND or Ohio State, but there is no program I hate and despise more thoroughly than USC, and I have felt that way for decades.
January 13th, 2010 at 10:02 AM ^
I just about had a heart attack when I read the title. I somehow hadn't heard about this yet and thought for the briefest second we just filled out linebacker coaching vacancy with a Kiffin.
Then I read the rest and I laughed and laughed and laughed.
January 13th, 2010 at 11:01 AM ^
in the Twitter feeds?
January 13th, 2010 at 11:33 AM ^
Rootie Tootie?
January 13th, 2010 at 11:38 AM ^
A retweet is a way to spread the word on breaking or important news. Let's say you're following Mark Dantonio on Twitter for some reason and he tweets, "I am the Antichrist and I feast on the blood of Michigan fans!" Now, most UM fans would have the good sense not to follow Dantonio, so they don't know about it. You see the tweet and retweet it to your followers so the word gets out and everyone knows to stay away from Zombie Dantonio.
January 13th, 2010 at 11:27 AM ^
Lane Kiffin is bad for college football - period.
January 13th, 2010 at 12:20 PM ^
So is Saban, and anyone at tOSU. Here is a good article on the Kiffin situation I found over on ESPN (Yes ESPN, really no kidding!)
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/columns/story?columnist=schlabach_mark&id…
I bet Mike Hamilton offers Muschamp the World to try and get himself free of this Kiffin situation. Kinda reminds me of the Bonnie Situation. Jan Simek to Mike Hamilton: Don't fucking Jan
me Mike!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9ANL8L8RG0
I can just picture Kiffin in the athletic dept doing a bunch of gansta shit. After all, Tarantino is from Knoxville...
January 13th, 2010 at 11:33 AM ^
Two things:
1. Search Google Images; once you get to about 'Lane K' the top five suggestions are all about his wife. She IS smoking hot, though, so I guess I have to give him that.
2. It would be wonderful, stupendous even, if the NCAA met in February to discuss sanctions and said, "You know, they just hired the guy responsible for a lot of these recruiting violations (Kiffin was recruiting coordinator at one point, wasn't he?). I would say we're being disrespected. Let's fuck him in the ass." Vacate national championships and wins, postseason ban, lose like half their scholarships, music to my ears. So often in these investigations, the people responsible leave before they have to face the music. It would be awesome if Kiffin were lured there and then hammered.
I know it won't happen, but a boy can dream, can't he?
January 13th, 2010 at 11:41 AM ^
At this moment, I am hoping that the NCAA is looking at violations with calm understanding. Just in case....
Of course, if we get a clean bill of health, I hope they cut his balls off.
January 13th, 2010 at 11:38 AM ^
more than anything, I want Baxter to ditch USC and sign with Michigan.
January 13th, 2010 at 12:03 PM ^
Harbaugh: What's your deal?
Kiffin: I out and out pay players to play here. Even as seniors in high school I set them up with co-eds with negotiable morals, supply their parents with exotic vacations and "magically" deliver luxury cars to their driveways. What's YOUR deal?
Harbaugh: I just run my mouth a little too much. ... But you're a dick.
January 13th, 2010 at 12:16 PM ^
The coaching carrousel didn't appear too much of an issue for Michigan fans until we had to experience the hiring debacle of 2008. We felt that Michigan was a prime job that "anyone" would want. We learned quickly that, that was not the case.
The fans wanted Les Miles, but some administrators didn't. He wanted to come to his "dream job," however, something didn't quite work out and so now we're interviewing candidate number three. Rich Rod, the interview that really wasn't an interview. A multi-million pay out to a coach and WVU that didn't like Michigan taking both their basketball and their football coaches. There were court hearings and things said that made Michigan's new football coach look bad. We shouldn't forget that T. Pryor informed the media that as soon as RR was hired by Michigan, he informed him on a WVU phone that he was now going to Michigan as the head coach. Somewhat "Kiffinesk" so to speak.
IMO, the true victims in cases with coaches running off to the NFL or other college programs after they've almost destroyed a program [Carroll, Kiffin, et al] is the students and the fans. Recruiting classes are disrupted or destroyed. Assistant coaches and their families will have to relocate, again. Tennessee's program has to endure another set back, and what scares me is that if we're not careful, this can happen to us. Just an example, when Hopson left, it didn't bother me so much because he was new and may not have felt comfortable here. However, now that Magee is interviewing for a job (dream job???) it makes me wonder, is this a sign of something else happening behind the scenes? He's been with RR for years, never candidated for another position until now. Are the rats leaving the ship because it's sinking or is this more of what happens in the coaching carrousel? Just something that makes you say hmmm.
Most top athletes with a future will eventually be fine and land on their feet, however, it's the rest of us that bleed our school colors that are left holding the bag and have to pick up the pieces. I know "it is , what it is," however, I hope the NCAA will eventually attempt some means of regulating a form of Ethical employment practices when it comes to hiring coaches from other schools.
January 13th, 2010 at 1:36 PM ^
I don't get all the rioting. Why are they so upset about football at a women's basketball school like Tennessee?
January 13th, 2010 at 5:49 PM ^
Summit decides to leave UT?!?!? There'd be bras and panties all over the campus. On a second thought, I'm hoping that it would happen so I can drive down to Knoxville to witness the riot.
January 13th, 2010 at 12:55 PM ^
If you think about it, Kiffin and USC is still a match made in heaven. They're perfect for each other. And now I can continue hating USC with reckless abandon. Awesome.
That said, I would look at David Cutcliffe - currently the head coach at Duke - for the Tennessee job. He went back as a favor to Fulmer after the OC resigned, then left for Duke. That said, he's been a coach at Tennessee for 19 of his 29 years of coaching, and despite leading a pretty big turnaround at Duke, Tennessee is a better program.
January 13th, 2010 at 1:28 PM ^
I haven't seen rioting at an SEC school since Ole Miss in the 1960s. You have to hand it to them though: they're consistent. Not only will Southerners riot to keep a black guy out, but they'll also riot to keep a white guy in.
Yesterday I said something about UT fans, especially compared to WV. Well, no one will ever outdo the WV jihadists. An hour after a coach announced that he'll be leaving is way too soon to judge any fan base.
January 13th, 2010 at 2:17 PM ^
...who has a history of minor ncaa infractions and a general misunderstanding of how the ncaa regs even work? to a place currently bearing the weight of a full-cavity ncaa investigation?
what could POSSIBLY go wrong?
i love every fucking second of this.
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