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 11:27 PM ^
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He's also only 42, he could coach for years at FAU and still be a young canidate for a Power 5 team.
November 29th, 2017 at 11:27 PM ^
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November 30th, 2017 at 1:43 PM ^
...when I laugh. LOL LOL LOL ouch...
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November 29th, 2017 at 10:36 PM ^
Thank god
we have harbaugh. I hope he signs the lifetime contract.
Tennesse is a tire fire. I feel bad...nope. Fulmer. Screw it. I'm with kiffin laughing at them.
November 30th, 2017 at 2:41 AM ^
November 29th, 2017 at 10:44 PM ^
November 29th, 2017 at 10:47 PM ^
What's the deal with Jimbo being done at Florida State?! I haven't read much about the situation down there but...dude was the coach-in-waiting behind Bobby Bowden and a lifer. Now...he's done after a not-so-hot season after his QB got hurt while sitting in a hot bed of talent!? I just don't get it.
November 29th, 2017 at 10:51 PM ^
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He's been flirting with other schools every year requiring FSU to give him pay raises. His divorce probably doesn't help either.
On top of that, he doesn't think the school is invested enough in facilities and wants renovations in a year that his team is 5-6.
I think both sides are just tired of each other and need to reset
November 29th, 2017 at 10:57 PM ^
They're not pushing him out. FSU is trying to keep him but Fisher wants a new football building. It is entirely possible that he is using TAMU as leverage to get what he wants at FSU, or he might just want to leave.
November 29th, 2017 at 11:01 PM ^
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November 29th, 2017 at 11:47 PM ^
Man, how far has Tennessee fallen that they are getting turned down for a guy to stay at Purdue?
Yeesh.
Having gone to college in Nashville, TN and been surrounded by asshat UT fans for four years, I am absolutely loving this but this is pretty sad for a once elite program.
November 29th, 2017 at 11:54 PM ^
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November 30th, 2017 at 10:03 AM ^
sheeeeee.....it!!
November 30th, 2017 at 12:09 AM ^
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Let's review the names that have turned UT down or taken other jobs:
Gruden - unknown if he was offered or interested in coaching again but he was laughably UT's #1 choice and he's still working for ESPN, which implies UT got turned down
Kelly - chose UCLA over Florida, did not consider UT
Frost - turned down Florida, likely headed to Nebraska (admitedly, UNL had the homecoming advantage but that's another coach UT would have wanted)
Mullen - chose Florida over UT
Cutcliffe - longtime former UT assitant, turned UT down
Gundy - there are certain jobs you just don't say no to, this is now the second time Gundy has passed on UT
Brohm - turned UT down
Moorhead - UT didn't offer him, but I'm guessing they would have taken him given who they are considering now
Doeren - current #1 target has a remarkbaly similar record (33-30 at NC State) to Schiano (68-67 at Rutgers).
November 30th, 2017 at 12:45 AM ^
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This just in: Art Briles and Jim Tressel both just told UT hell no. Next target: Bret Bielema. Shit, is that even a joke at this point?
November 30th, 2017 at 1:01 AM ^
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Which is dumb. They should at least give him a call even if he's too young for the job. The guy won them a national title.
November 30th, 2017 at 6:05 AM ^
I think he is the only candidate that truly wants that job. I can't see any other big name walking into that mess. The big names will listen to Tennessee, but only to give themselves more leverage over the current employer. This whole thing is really fun to watch though.
November 30th, 2017 at 2:13 AM ^
Why would Jimbo go to TAMU?
Like, surveying this landscape I would rather be at UT than TAMU by a really wide margin.
November 30th, 2017 at 2:34 AM ^
November 30th, 2017 at 2:41 AM ^
Could be all a tactic to get the university to cave, could be legit.
But he would make a major mistake leaving Tallahassee. aTm is not the big dog in their state recruiting wise. FSU, however, is.
November 30th, 2017 at 2:27 AM ^
November 30th, 2017 at 6:09 AM ^
I don't know if Herm can deliver the results at ASU, but he is about as solid of a human you can find. Many parents would love to have their kids spend 4 years under his guidance. I think Sumlin would make more sense though.
November 30th, 2017 at 5:54 AM ^
I remain very thankful for Michigan and for Jim Harbaugh. We've got it good
November 30th, 2017 at 7:26 AM ^
December 1st, 2017 at 11:36 AM ^
He wronged them, they didn't wrong him.
Why is he piling on?
November 30th, 2017 at 9:48 AM ^
If Doeren turns UT down, at what point do you just save face and put up with Hoke for one year as your coach? I know that will do nothing to stabilize the program because everyone knows he'd be a dead man walking barring a miracle turnaround next season. But do you risk hiring a nobody and signing him to a multi-year deal, and then finding out after one year that he's a disaster?
November 30th, 2017 at 11:02 AM ^
Smoke weed, talk shit like Lane Kiffin
November 30th, 2017 at 7:22 PM ^