Welcome to the Pac-10, Lane Kiffin

You do a lot of dumb things when you're young and impetuous.

 

Latest rumor:

Fulmer being named AD
Cutcliffe HC

Shoot me now.

 

Not Johnny Majors?

 

On the Knoxville paper's site, there's a poll on who the new coach should be. Muschamp is leading with Spurrier coming in second. Nice.

 

Why the blazes would they bring Fulmer back as AD?

Makes no sense whatsoever.

 

Exactly. That ain't happening.

 

As much as I like to poke fun at you Vols fans, if Phil Fulmer returns I would really try hard to feel your pain.

 

I really hope they hold off on naming a coach for a while. These rumors are just too good, too enjoyable.

In the situation they're in, there is really only one man they can offer the job to:

Ditka.

 

Muschamp turned them down this morning.

And regarding the role of the USC football coach here in SoCal, he is as big as he wants to be and as big as his success allows him to be. Pete Carroll was the king of LA because of his personality and because of the success he generated for the long-starved Trojan football fans, bandwagoners and hangers-on (of which there are TONS of the latter two categories here).

With Kiffin's ego, he'll be everywhere. The question remains whether his ability to recruit (and having Orgeron playing Sundance for him won't hurt on that front) and that aforementioned ego will cover the gaps in his coaching ability.

 

Recruiting is far more important than coaching. Here's guessing Kiffin will do just fine at USC.

 

Compare Heisman winners.
Compare national champions
Compare BCS bowl wins
Compare population base
Compare local media reach
Compare local high school recruiting base. There are more people within 30 miles of USC than in the entire state of Tennessee
SC owns the entire West Coast TV market.
Compare weather
If you don't go to the NC game, you get the Rose Bowl, the best bowl ever

USC is a far better job than Tennessee. It's the premier job, in the premier all-around athletic conference in the country, in the nation's largest media market that cares about college football, where USC is king because there is no NFL.

The upcoming NCAA sanctions will pass. And when they do, SC is still SC, one of the top 5 most recognizable brands in college football.


He'd have been crazy to turn that job down, especially since he'll be 2500 miles away from the fan base that's mad at him, and besides that he has the ego to tell them to GFY anyway.

 

Yeah, anyone who thinks that USC gig is just a smidge better than Tennessee is wrong.

And any truth to the rumor that the Ogre called the guys who signed early and were starting class in January not to enroll, because if they did, they couldn't back out and follow the coaches to USC?