More thoughts on Lane Kiffin's abandonment of Tennessee: deep breath, y'all

Obviously, I’m not a Vols fan but I am a fan of the game. The university, administration, fans, and the players deserved better and here’s hoping that you guys get a quality hire that actually deserves the job.

This just sucks! What a low life. I still can’t believe the things I’m reading here.
I’m sure you will bounce back strong though. You can certainly do nothing but upgrade IMO. Best of luck in this mess!

Who in the world do we look for as a New again head coach. There is part of me that is glad to see him go, a little to much of a pompous A*** for my liking . And will his staff go with him or not. I hope Ed will stay but at this point who knows !

Kiffin was the correct choice at the time. Hamilton’s methods were correct, and the coach he selected based on those methods put together an All-Star staff that would have built a machine at UT had they stayed. Hamilton had no way of predicting the perfect storm that would land Kiffin back at USC.

Of course, all coaches will eventually leave, it is just a matter of when. Hammy had no way of knowing, or reasonably deducing, that Kiffy was going to pull this kind of job on us

for his assistants?

Kiffin delenda est.

Calhoun wouldn’t be a splash (which we need), but he had a very, very solid track record. I could deal. I’d also take a look at Petersen, Patterson, Whittingham (shows you the respect I have for the MWC), Petrino, Mullen, Edsall, and possibly some ex-NFL guys (Cowher, Gruden, as were rumored last year).

Guys that we don’t want include Fulmer, Cutcliffe, Spurrier, Leach. Fulmer (still) needs a change of scenery, Cutt doesn’t recruit well, Spurs has fallen off, Leach has image problems (unfair as they may be) and can’t recruit. Or run.

That buyout was still ridiculous. 800k on his end, but 7.5 mil on ours? Absurd! I hope there was some sort of buyout for the assistants.

I wen to Ole Miss, but my sister is a current student at UT, so I definitely sympathize… Kiffin is douche for blindsiding the university like he did. We at Ole Miss experienced something similar with Tuberville, but I’m pretty sure this is worse.

Now go hire Muschamp and continue the rebuilding.

caught the very tail end of it, and even then I’m not entirely sure he’s giving us the full story, but much respect to that guy for standing up and talking like a man.

And who ever else we can get in there to calm the waters for this players new and old sitting in limbo !

Hound Dogs is asking people not to burn or rip up the Kiffin shirts because they will send them to Haiti’s earthquake victims.

I hope this is fake

Via Clay Travis

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Is this real? RT @lkiffinusc 14 Months I gave my all for Tennessee, I left it better than when I got there. lets all be adults here.

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In the college game… I bleed big orange. This news his me like a wall of bricks last night. I am fairly sure I invented a host of brand new expletives to describe Judas Kiffin. I’ve come here to lick my wounds with the rest of you, and hope that Tennessee can find a better replacement. I also hope that the recruits committed to the school and not to Lane Kiffin. One thing if for sure… whatever team takes the field at Neyland next year is going to play angry. Very angry.

Kiffin is a scumbag. I think college coaches should have the same regulations as student athletes. If you change colleges you have to stay out of college coaching for one year before you can coach for another college team. If you want to go to the NFL (and you can get a job) so be it. But what Kiffin did to you Tennessee was basically how Dennis Franchione screwed Bama over. Franchione’s favorite saying was “hold the rope” and he let it go in and left in the middle of the night before a bowl game. It really sux for Tennessee. I used live in Nashville and I understand your passion. It hurts and Kiffin came in, made a bunch of enemies by his words, has caused the NCAA to investigate some of his dealing there and he is now skipping out, showing no character or loyalty he promised. He should have at least gave it two years. Of course you know that USC never gets sanctioned althought it is the dirtiest program in the country. Hang in there Vol fans. I think you will get a great coach. Not sure who all has signed their “new” coaching contracts yet but there are some good coaches floating around out there. You all will be better off without that scumbag Kiffin. If it wasn’t this year, he would have left you at the next opportunity. Remember it took us at Bama a long time after Gene Stallings left to find a good coach but I don’t think it will take the Vols that long. There are too many coaches who want SEC head coaching jobs.