1. Tennessee will be this year’s Michigan. You all recall what happened to the Wolverines in their...

1. Tennessee will be this year’s Michigan. You all recall what happened to the Wolverines in their first year under Rich Rodriguez. Expect the same thing to happen to the Volunteers under Lane Kiffin, only more so, for two reasons. First of all, there is absolutely no evidence at this point to suggest that Coach Kiffin fils is on a par with Coach Rodriguez . . . or even that he’s anything other than Mike Shula dressed in dreamsickle orange. Secondly, when you tick off that many of your colleagues in your first few weeks on the job, you’re going to get your comeuppance more than once, and it will be ugly. By mid-October, the Big Orange message boards will be ablaze with the rhetorical question, "For this we fired a national championship-winning U.T. alum?"

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Sorry Rusty, I have to respectfully disagree, Rodriguez went in there and changed everything and didnt have the players to fit his style, which was radically different going from a big slow maching to a faster spread. I dont think Kiffin’s style is going to be radically different then last year, hopefully just much more efficient. and I think this staff will do what they can with what they have and not get crazy like Rodriguez.. Also I am not buying into all this coach Ticking off another coach has a huge effect on the game. If coaches could actually control a game UT would have clobbered Wyoming. I think whatt is going on over there behind the scenes is Kiffin and this staff are really impressing these kids and getting them to buy into the direction the Lane train is headed. And we have all seen what can happen when players believe in a coach and a system (ala Bruce Pearl in his first three years) so in closing I hope your wrong LOL

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by voljunkie on Mar 4, 2009 8:36 PM EST reply actions

I hope he's right!

Rusty’s post here is a quote from Dawg Sports; he put his opinion in the counterargument here.

I think we all agree that the situations are completely different. To be honest, if you were to look for a more appropriate parallel for a negative view of the new staff, the better analog is Charlie Weis and Notre Dame. The forces that brought in Weis were similar, and Weis also made some brash statements of his own prior to coaching a game. But the Michigan image is really odd.

by David Hooper on Mar 4, 2009 8:43 PM EST up reply actions

Sorry Rusty, I thought you wrote this I didnt realize it was a link, Sorry dude I looked over and saw your post with the rubuttle and was like wait what is going on here, pretty funny huh

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by voljunkie on Mar 4, 2009 8:43 PM EST reply actions