Southern Cal has filled their football coaching vacancy. With Lane Kiffin. And the indignation coming out of the Volunteer State is eclipsed only by the desperation of what I thought was the best job in college football. Between the weather, the Pac-10 scheduling, and smatterings of California coeds, no program could sell itself as effortlessly as Southern California football.
Kiffin continues to fail upwards like some sort of entertainment executive at NBC, and doing so in a way that makes landing the top job in Los Angeles almost appropriate. With USC waiting under the NCAA’s hammer, it seems that a guy that spent his one year of experience in FBS racking up minor violations wouldn’t be their guy.
And that’s just the thing. Nobody wanted that job. Jeff Fisher? No thanks. Steve Marriucci? Rolled to voicemail. Hell, Jack Del Rio decided to stayin Jacksonville. Whatever the hell was going on in LA, everyone’s aversion to the job says a lot about the state of that program, and probably gives a clue to why Pete Carroll was so eager to get the hell out of there in the first place.
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It was either this or Herm Edwards. I would have chosen death actually.
The fact that his name is Lane makes it that much easier not to like him.
LANE FUCKING KIFFIN IS A SOCKO PERV! HE NOT ONLY JACKS OFF IN HIS SOCKS, BUT THEN WEARS THEM TO FEEL HOW WARM IT IS!
Al should get some t-shirts printed with Kiffin’s photo on it that say “Told you so”
Didn’t the little shit name his kid “Knox” last year?
This does nothing to stem my hatred of USC. Or guys named Lane who ride daddy’s coattails. Actually, most USC students/alums are assholes who ride daddy’s coattails, so I guess it’s a good hire. Fucking fuckwads.
“Kiffin continues to fail upwards like some sort of entertainment executive at NBC.” Someone was reading Maureen Dowd today.
Fuck ‘FBS’; it’s Division I-fucking-A.
Monte’s a helluva coach, but Lane & SC deserve each other. I gotta say I’m not crying for the Vols though, after the way they treated Fullmer. Karma is a bitch.
Vol fans, don’t be like WVU with Rich Rodriguez. Just move on. This will help in the end. No new coach wants to think that he will be vilified if he decides to leave.