Welcome to the Pac-10, Lane Kiffin

Yep. Tennessee would have waited until all the coaching jobs were filled, would have waited for weeks after the season, to fire Kiffin, leaving him completely in the lurch. And when they fired him, the UTAD would have held a one-minute press conference to announce, "Al Davis was completely right." Then the AD would immediately get on the phone and call the few remaining schools that had job openings and told them that Kiffin wrecked his car twice in the middle of the night in the previous 14 months.

What Kiffin did was just business, and perfectly acceptable in American in 2010.

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His recruiting class probably would have gotten him a second year. I really don't think this is that late in the coaching search game. Most coaching changes at major schools happen in the first three weeks of the year, after the bowls.

I'm not a Kiffin fan. I'm anything but a USC fan. This happens all the time and I just think it's funny that people think Kiffin is the devil for leaving. I think if he was 10 years older, the level of outrage would be down about 10 notches.

 

This stuff happens, but it's exacerbated by the fact that he didn't have great season, acted at times like a whiny brat and didn't back it up then gets a better job at USC.

So you have folks mad that this clown would get rewarded and also leave UT in the lurch at a time when it will kill the school's recruiting.

So it seems unfair -- not just in a coach-breaking-a-contract unfair but in a how-does-this-guy-get-that-job? unfair.

 

New coach of the Vols:

Derek Dooley?

Shoot me now.

 

A coach leaving at any time after the season hurts recruiting.

I don't buy the failing upward argument. He won two more games than Fulmer did during his last season and while that's nothing to jump up and down about, it's tough to take over a program and he did still show improvement.

The only think Kiffin did wrong with the Oakland job was accept it in the first place. Hell, Al Davis ran off Mike Shanahan and makes Dan Snyder look like Art Rooney or George Halas.

As far as the USC job is concerned, major sanctions are coming and that's the reason why the job even got to Kiffin in the first place. If probation wasn't looming, Carroll never would have left and if he did, the job would never have been turned down as many times as it was.

 

Yep, Dooley.

https://twitter.com/GoVolsXtra

 

I think Dooley would be a great hire for UT. And you don't have to worry about him leaving for UGA because as long as Michael Adams is UGA's president, he will never hire a Dooley.

 

Hey, if you can get a coach from Louisiana Tech with a losing record in his career, you can't pass him up.

 

His was a relatively hot name a few years ago, though I don't recall hearing much about him recently, and I don't know how much of the hype was tied to his last name.

But as a Georgia fanboi, I don't like it. I don't like the idea of a Dooley at Tennessee, and I don't like the idea of having to root against a Dooley.

 

I'm all for Wahoos getting head-coaching looks, and I think UT could do worse than Dooley (family allegiances notwithstanding). Yeah, his record at LaTech wasn't great this year, but it's tough to build anything in the Sun Belt. Also keep in mind that he was both coach and AD - the only double-dipper in FBS, if I'm not mistaken. With UT's resources and the fact that he can concentrate on coaching, he should do well there.

 

It would be especially difficult for La. Tech to build in the Sun Belt, what with the WAC's insistence that it play a full conference schedule.

 

Crap. Pure fail, right here. May Tim Rattay come and slap me upside the head.

Still think Dooley will prove to be a good hire.