Wednesday, January 13, 2010

GCOTD: Lane Kiffin

Tennessee takes a chance on a young, unproven coach, busy him the highest paid set of assistants in history (including his dad as defensive coordinator), and sticks with him through a series of high-profile public gaffes, and what do they get in return?

ONE year later, after a 7-5 record, he bolts for USC, a program that may be facing NCAA sanctions in the near future. In other words, Lane Kiffin is one snuke-sized douchebag.

On the other hand, Tennessee fired their home-grown, national championship-winning coach, Phil Fulmer, one year after going to the SEC Championship so they could hire a brash, unproven replacement. Then they handed his staff more money than Fulmer ever got. So maybe they got what they deserved.

Shote Sleeves, I know you've got something to say about this...

Anyway, I'll take heart in the fact that VT gave the Kiffin-at-Tennessee era the send-off it deserved and that a local store is somehow turning this mess into something meaningful to the rest of the world.

2 comments:

  1. Lane Kiffin is retarded. USC is going to get pummeled with sanctions and then he will get fired when they suck. Total retard.

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  2. Yes, this is another thing that I probably didn't emphasize enough: this decision really doesn't make any sense at all unless the sanctions are not going to be big, in which case Carroll's decision makes less sense than I thought. But if forced to choose between the judgment of Kiffin or Carroll, I know who I'm going with...

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