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lame kitten headed back to usc?
« on: January 12, 2010, 07:48:46 PM »
Updated: January 12, 2010, 8:37 PM ET
Sources: Kiffin to USC

Tennessee's Lane Kiffin has agreed in principle to become the next head coach at Southern California, sources close to the situation told ESPN.com's Chris Low on Tuesday.

Kiffin would replace Pete Carroll, who jumped to the NFL as coach of the Seattle Seahawks.

Kiffin, the former Oakland Raiders coach, led the Volunteers for only one season.

Sources told ESPN Kiffin will bring his father and defensive coordinator, Monte Kiffin, and assistant head coach and recruiting coordinator Ed Orgeron to Southern Cal with him, and wide receivers coach Kippy Brown will be named interim head coach at Tennessee.

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Re: lame kitten headed back to usc?
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2010, 08:23:54 PM »
I guess Kiffen doesn't want to take root anywhere. *wha*

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Re: lame kitten headed back to usc?
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2010, 08:25:12 PM »
ut spent a boatload of money on that staff, for them to be around for only 1 year. 

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Re: lame kitten headed back to usc?
« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2010, 08:32:43 PM »
it's confirmed.  done deal.  taking his daddy and orgeron with him.

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Re: lame kitten headed back to usc?
« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2010, 08:35:53 PM »
I think TN will restructure their contracts in the future for new hires.  If he fails at USC I hope he falls off the grid completely.

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Re: lame kitten headed back to usc?
« Reply #5 on: January 13, 2010, 07:06:37 AM »
Pathetic.

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Re: lame kitten headed back to usc?
« Reply #6 on: January 13, 2010, 07:12:12 AM »
1 year and moves on...  what a joke! 

So did he get more money, or just the thought of coaching at USC get him there?

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Re: lame kitten headed back to usc?
« Reply #7 on: January 13, 2010, 07:13:51 AM »
1 year and moves on...  what a joke! 

So did he get more money, or just the thought of coaching at USC get him there?

The reports say more money for him, hid Dad and crazy ED!

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Re: lame kitten headed back to usc?
« Reply #8 on: January 13, 2010, 09:10:51 AM »
check this out-

Chris Low at ESPN has confirmed the ugly truth:

"How crazy did it get Tuesday night on Rocky Top, which clearly has been rocked?

Consider this scene: While Lane Kiffin attempted to tell the Tennessee players that he was no longer going to be their coach in a meeting that nearly got out of hand, Kiffin's recruiting coordinator, Ed Orgeron, was calling some of those same players -- mid-term freshmen who'd yet to enroll -- and trying to convince them not to enroll and instead follow Kiffin and Orgeron to Southern California.

Rising sophomore defensive lineman Marlon Walls said he overheard Orgeron making his USC pitch to some of the incoming Tennessee freshmen while many of them still weren't completely sure what was going on.

Afterward, Orgeron's Tennessee-issued cell phone was turned off.

"We told them (the freshmen) in the meeting that it's their option," Walls told Volquest.com. "If they want to go, go. But we're a family here. You don't sign with no school for no coach. And just like they left us, they'll leave you all too. ... And we heard Coach O in the background calling enrollees and telling them that they got an offer to USC. He couldn't even address us. He couldn't even call us first.

"Freshmen put (Orgeron) on speakerphone. I called him five times, and he wouldn't pick up. But he's calling them. They put him on speakerphone and said all of them got offers to USC."

Walls called Kiffin a "fake guy" and added, "We bought into his system and we bought into what he was telling us to do, and for him to leave us like that, it just shows you what kind of man he is, shows you his character. We're still going to be Tennessee."

Kiffin finally left the football complex just before midnight and did so with a police escort."

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Re: lame kitten headed back to usc?
« Reply #9 on: January 14, 2010, 11:52:18 AM »
The student body was rioting in Tenn.  College sports is getting ridiculous anymore.  I think it is a shame how a school can get sanctions for violations, but the coach who commited the violation can go somewhere else with no consequences.

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Re: lame kitten headed back to usc?
« Reply #10 on: January 14, 2010, 11:58:55 AM »
The student body was rioting in Tenn.  College sports is getting ridiculous anymore.  I think it is a shame how a school can get sanctions for violations, but the coach who commited the violation can go somewhere else with no consequences.

i think tennessee is going to have some issues with the ncaa, just as usc will.  i guess there is nothing you can do to a coach that leaves for the nfl.  but you are right, it's a shame a coach can get a school in a bunch of trouble and walk away with his hands clean.  i know bobby knight mentioned something similar the other day, when talking about calipari (i think).

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Re: lame kitten headed back to usc?
« Reply #11 on: January 14, 2010, 01:20:03 PM »
I think the NCAA should impose penalties and fines on the coaches.