Lame Kiffin

Lane Kiffin is the worst coach in the history of football. Well, maybe that is a little strong, but he is the worst of this era. He lies, cheats, steals. He says dumb stuff. He's a little snot-nosed punk. Does anyone like Lane Kiffin? Someone has to, how does he keep landing high-profile jobs at such a young age? 1. His father 2. Luck 3. Al Davis.

The brief bio history of Lane Kiffin is he graduated college with a degree in Leisure Service Management...so I guess that is why he's so nonchalant and worthless. Then he was given a job by Pete Carroll at USC, and we all know he got that job because his father is Monte Kiffin. Then, because of USC's success, their assistant coaches began getting pecked away by other schools and the NFL so Kiffin ascended to co-offensive coordinator and recruiting coordinator by the age of 29. He held these positions in 2005 while Reggie Bush was accepting $100,000 which has USC on probation now. Despite being highly criticized for the lack of success in 2006, Al Davis hired Kiffin to be the head coach of the Oakland Raiders for the 2007 season. This made him the youngest coach in NFL history at only 31 years old. Not surprisingly, the Raiders went 4-12 and Davis wanted Kiffin to resign...he wouldn't and Davis waited it out until 4 games into the regular season (1-3 record) when he went ahead and fired 'ole Lane. At that point, Al Davis looked like a crazy old man when he called Kiffin a "flat-out liar" and a disgrace to his organization, however recent events have lead us to believe he may have been accurate. Then Tennessee hired Kiffin, perhaps only because he had been an NFL coach; this made him the youngest coach in college football at 33. Then we all know the mess he stirred up in the ensuing months with his bold statements and gaffes. Even though UT fans loved him at the time, they now hate him because he bolted for USC once Pete Carroll left for the NFL. One season at Tennessee, 7-6 record. Now at USC, the 35 year-old Kiffin is still making news for his bonehead mistakes, which he doesn't seem to have a problem with.

While Kiffin seemed to stir the pot behind the scenes with the Raiders, he turned over a new, public leaf once he got the job at Tennessee. Here are a few of his most notable accomplishments:

-1st day on the job he talked about how UT would beat Florida and their other rivals in the upcoming year
-Hired his father, Buccaneers coach Monte Kiffin, to join him at UT as Defensive Coordinator with 4 games left in the NFL season, the Bucs went 0-4 after that
-He hired a coach away from the Raiders with 2 weeks left in the NFL season without asking the Raiders interim coach
-Picked off several coaches on other SEC school's staffs without telling the head coaches he was contacting them
-Gave his newborn child the middle name of "Knox" for Knoxville
-He went on to accuse Urban Meyer of cheating by illegally contacting a recruit and was publicly reprimanded by the SEC commissioner
-He accused Georgia of cheating during a radio interview
-Tennessee self-reported double-digit secondary recruiting violations during Kiffin's two months of recruiting there
-He told a South Carolina recruit if he went there he'd be pumping gas for the rest of his life like everyone else who has gone to South Carolina
-It only took him 11 days to get his first secondary recruiting violation at USC for picking up a player at the airport
-He tried to persuade some of his UT recruits to come to USC through Ed Orgeron, who hadn't taken a job with USC yet
-He offered a 13 year-old a scholarship to USC
-And most recently he is being sued by the Tennessee Titans for hiring their running backs coach, just a week before training camp starts...without consulting Jeff Fisher or anyone with the Titans organization about his interest in the coach

So basically, not only is Lane Kiffin a moron but he's also unethical. He's under-qualified, he'll do anything to gain an edge, and to make matters worse his sidekick Ed Orgeron was cut out of the same mold. Coach "O" is known as a tireless recruiter, just like Lane Kiffin. He'll beg, borrow, and steal until he gets a player. At Ole Miss, after Hurricane Katrina displaced the Tulane football team, he attempted to raid their roster. He was with Kiffin at USC, then came with him to Tennessee, and followed him to USC but not before he tried to steal some of the recruits that were already committed to UT.

USC just hired Pat Haden to be their Athletic Director, and clean up the program. Unfortunately, having Lane Kiffin and his cronies running things probably makes it worse than it ever was. If Haden is smart, and I think he is, he will fire Kiffin at the end of the season regardless of their record. There are plenty of coaches who would love to coach in sunny southern California with the kind of tradition they have at USC. Kiffin might be able to motivate players enough to win some games, but his antics are too much headache and will get USC or any other school into a lot of trouble.

If only Al Davis wouldn't have hired Kiffin in 2007. He was way under-qualified, only having been the co-offensive coordinator on a college team....on an '06 USC team that underperformed. Tennessee thought it was great they were getting a former NFL coach, and USC thought it was great they were getting a former USC guy who had been a head coach. It is a terrible cycle of events that has led to Lame Kiffin getting one of the most prestigious jobs in the country and irritating everyone with his antics.

JB