OT: Lane Kiffin Trolling UT & Other Coaching Carousel Bits
Lane Kiffin is worth a follow on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/Lane_Kiffin/status/936028243177754624
As UT keeps burning, ASU is closing in on hiring Herm Edwards (?), Oregon State hires Jonathan Smith (UW's OC) and Purdue keeps Brohm with a contract extension and pledge to upgrade football facilities. Jimbo Fisher seems to be done with FSU and is going to TAMU. Recruits have been decommitting and apparently FSU's kicker is a suspect in an investigation regarding the murder of a frat's pet turtle (?). Willie Taggart and Justin Fuente are on FSU's list to replace him.
If Taggart leaves, hello Talanoa Hufanga?
Oh and forgot about Arkansas, which apparently is conducting 2 coaching searches; 1 by the boosters and 1 by the interim AD. Can't tell me that won't end up being dysfunctional somehow. Luckily for them, UT is taking all the headlines lol.
Dave Doeren, NCSU's HC, is next on the list for UT.
November 29th, 2017 at 10:15 PM ^
— Lane Kiffin (@Lane_Kiffin) November 30, 2017
November 29th, 2017 at 11:01 PM ^
Man that is awesome! How fun would it be to poop on a old employer that u parted with on bad terms? I mean I hope Tenn gets it all figured out but that is still funny as hell!
November 29th, 2017 at 11:16 PM ^
What picture I could photo shop to highlight the crazy idea that Herm Edwards, of all people, is prepared to coach major college football. Oh...wait...Lovie Smith! Who wouldn't want to emulate that fine idea?
Seriously folks...can anyone name a single instance where a guy without any college football experience in the last...oh...25 years actually...you know...succeeds??
November 29th, 2017 at 11:29 PM ^
but that he seems like a better hire than Edwards in every possible way.
20 years removed from coaching CFB (OSU) vs 30 Years (SDSU)
much more experience in CFB including 9 years at Power 5 level vs zero
an active coach vs retired for 8 years
57 years old vs 63
coached the local NFL franchise rather than teams across the country
much better NFL record
Illinois was in much worse shape than ASU
November 30th, 2017 at 2:09 AM ^
Yeah, let's put this in perspective... Lovie Smith took the Chicago Bears to a Super Bowl and was bizarrely fired after going 10-6. He has coached at programs like Wisconsin, Ohio State, and Tennessee.
Herm Edwards is an NFL flameout who was 19 games under .500 for his career. The closest he has ever come to a major college program is playing his freshman year at Cal in 1974.
November 29th, 2017 at 11:39 PM ^
I like Herm Edwards quite a bit. As a consequence, I really hate this move, because I think it will be awful for him. Between this and keeping Graham's staff together and apparently ASU fans kinda wishing they hadn't fired Graham, it's one of the most inexplicable coaching hires I can remember.
Wasn't ASU rumored to be in on Sumlin? That's a guy who could be a great hire for them, and instead they're getting a guy who's been talking on tv for ten years.
November 29th, 2017 at 11:45 PM ^
Lovie Smith had the youngest team in America this year. Literally started double digit true freshmen this year. Give him time. I think he'll turn Illinois into a respectable program.
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November 29th, 2017 at 11:21 PM ^
Oh,oh we know whose email account will get hacked now. FAU playbook will be all over the internet as well as those photos of him and saban's daughter!!!
November 30th, 2017 at 7:57 AM ^
While it's funny as hell, the idea of Lane Kiffin dumping on a program that he left in the lurch is disgusting. Kiffin is a self-serving douche who deserved any amount of bad Karma he has received. I'm not sure that Brohm leaving Purdue after a year is any better than what Kiffin did to Tennessee when he left for SC. At least Brohm has gotten a promise to improve the visitor's lockerroom facilities - that was part of the deal, right?
November 30th, 2017 at 1:10 AM ^
the best coach for me,
Good Ol' Rocket Man
Rocket Man, Tennessee
Rocket Man, Tennessee.
November 30th, 2017 at 10:34 AM ^
Posting a pic of Kim Jong Un in Tennessee orange is inviting the North Koreans to hack his Twitter account. That should be entertaining.
November 30th, 2017 at 7:47 PM ^
November 29th, 2017 at 10:16 PM ^
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November 29th, 2017 at 11:09 PM ^
Maybe a second toilet, but let's not get crazy.
November 30th, 2017 at 1:38 AM ^
Second toilet? Hell no. A door to the one stall we have?.....we will think about it
November 30th, 2017 at 2:33 AM ^
You mean the hole in the floor they provided
November 30th, 2017 at 8:01 AM ^
Give Purdue some credit - they heard our complaints. This is the view from outside the visitor's lockerroom the following week.
November 30th, 2017 at 8:03 AM ^
...and they already improved their ambulance service
November 29th, 2017 at 10:22 PM ^
UTenn is getting roasted! I really don't see how the AD (John Currie) is going to survive this, so no coach in his right mind is going to take that job.
Poor damn Brady Hoke - always in the wrong spot!
November 29th, 2017 at 10:49 PM ^
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November 29th, 2017 at 11:17 PM ^
that Gruden has agreed to coach. He keeps flirting with the coaching vacanies every damn year but he was never serious about it.
November 29th, 2017 at 11:44 PM ^
November 30th, 2017 at 12:08 AM ^
I have a family member who knows Jimmy a bit from business. What you said (if true) wouldn't surprise me about him from what I've heard.
November 30th, 2017 at 1:30 AM ^
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Tee won a NC and Peyton didn't
November 30th, 2017 at 9:02 AM ^
Peyton is holding out for Charles Woodson.
November 29th, 2017 at 10:23 PM ^
I felt so good about my post, that I posted it twice!
But seriously, who would downvote Tom Burke's comment about upgrading thier medical facilties?
November 29th, 2017 at 10:28 PM ^
November 29th, 2017 at 10:29 PM ^
Kiffin's twitter game is real strong.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Can u rat poison urself? https://t.co/ABtCCn0dwB
— Lane Kiffin (@Lane_Kiffin) November 28, 2017
November 29th, 2017 at 10:31 PM ^
Also today Dan Patrick asked if he thought Saban misses him. His reply was, "maybe on 3rd down the other night" Dude is on fire.
November 29th, 2017 at 10:37 PM ^
I mean I'm sorry maybe this an old man take (im 29 for what it's worth) but shouldn't he start acting like an adult, I mean there's a reason you're at Florida Atlantic and not USC, Bama, or the Oakland Raiders...grow up Lane.
November 29th, 2017 at 10:45 PM ^
On the contrary maybe we should quit acting like the game of football needs to be such a serious endeavor. It's supposed to be fun. Not rapey, pedo-ey, criminaly, etc. nor "harumphh, only serious questions and answers please" (read: bullshit and really having no substance). He's a coach over a bunch of college kids. He has fun. Saban bickers and bitches in his own way, so does Harbaugh, so does Urban but we have our perception of being professional and it's actually quite silly...Kiffin does it differently, so what.
November 29th, 2017 at 11:02 PM ^
He can be funny. Very smart football guy. But he is also a DB. Dishonest, self centered and immature. And he cheated on a smoke show of a wife. So he has poor judgement as well.
November 29th, 2017 at 11:19 PM ^
November 30th, 2017 at 9:05 AM ^
But you still have to consider the source.
November 29th, 2017 at 11:25 PM ^
November 29th, 2017 at 11:12 PM ^
but many prospective employers will have a different perspective. He's reinforcing doubts people already had about him while having his fun.
November 29th, 2017 at 11:28 PM ^
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That's why he's at FAU now, rather than a higher profile program. He'll get his chance if he keeps winning, but this won't speed him along.
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