Hires that live in infamy (Yahoo article)

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Top 10 worst coaching hires in this millennium!


We made the list! TWICE!

Y! SPORTS

Lane Kiffin (3) at both Tennessee and USC. When: 2009 at Tennessee, 2010-Sunday at USC. Why: Deserter in Knoxville; inept in Los Angeles; unlikeable at both. Was it an obvious mistake beforehand? For sure the second time, and a dicey fit the first time. Kiffin actually provided a brief blip of sunshine with the Volunteers, leading them to their only winning season since 2007. But at 7-6, he was barely worth all the headaches he caused – and then he fled to USC and really ticked off the Big Orange faithful. The Trojans' 2012 flop from No. 1 to 7-6 was among the worst in recent memory.


Derek Dooley (4) at Tennessee. When: 2010-12. Why: Gene pool didn't carry much weight come kickoff. Was it an obvious mistake beforehand? To everyone outside the Volunteer State. Dooley went 4-8 the previous year at Louisiana Tech and had a 17-20 record overall there. At Tennessee, he went 0-15 against ranked opponents; gave up 40 or more points nine times; and lost to perennial whipping boys Vanderbilt and Kentucky – the latter of which played a wide receiver at quarterback all game.
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N b 4, tell us something we don't know...


and Sorry if this was posted already, please merge if necessary...
 
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Jake Tate said:
Top 10 worst coaching hires in this millennium!


We made the list! TWICE!

Y! SPORTS
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Don't misunderstand me, but what would any of us do, if we got a job that we thought of as a fill in job and NOT a destination job, then our dream job came open. Would we stay at the fill in job or would we leave for our dream job?

If we pass on this opportunity to go to our dream job, the opportunity may never come again.

To Kiffin, U.T. was not a destination job, but a fill in job.
 
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Thats how you destroy a program. Holy cow. All starts with the AD.. I pray Hart has better hires than the above!
 
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Rudy123 said:
Don't misunderstand me, but what would any of us do, if we got a job that we thought of as a fill in job and NOT a destination job, then our dream job came open. Would we stay at the fill in job or would we leave for our dream job?

If we pass on this opportunity to go to our dream job, the opportunity may never come again.

To Kiffin, U.T. was not a destination job, but a fill in job.
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I agree completely. I never blamed Kiffin for going to USC, i understand, it's where he wanted to be. But it was the way he did it. He didn't do it like a man, he snuck out in the night and left us high and dry before signing day. Than he tried to steal the recruits we had coming here.

The man's a snake and his true colors are being revealed. I think a lot ppl thought Vols fans over-reacted to kiffin's departure. Now we keep hearing how this is karma for doing Tennessee badly.
 
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#3 and #4 are there because of the #1 worst hire EVER, Mike Hamilton!!! :banghead2:


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And now we know why we are where we are... lol.

I wish I could erase the last 5 years of Tennessee football from memory.
 
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Y! SPORTS

Lane Kiffin (3) at both Tennessee and USC. When: 2009 at Tennessee, 2010-Sunday at USC. Why: Deserter in Knoxville; inept in Los Angeles; unlikeable at both. Was it an obvious mistake beforehand? For sure the second time, and a dicey fit the first time. Kiffin actually provided a brief blip of sunshine with the Volunteers, leading them to their only winning season since 2007. But at 7-6, he was barely worth all the headaches he caused – and then he fled to USC and really ticked off the Big Orange faithful. The Trojans' 2012 flop from No. 1 to 7-6 was among the worst in recent memory.
Derek Dooley (4) at Tennessee. When: 2010-12. Why: Gene pool didn't carry much weight come kickoff. Was it an obvious mistake beforehand? To everyone outside the Volunteer State. Dooley went 4-8 the previous year at Louisiana Tech and had a 17-20 record overall there. At Tennessee, he went 0-15 against ranked opponents; gave up 40 or more points nine times; and lost to perennial whipping boys Vanderbilt and Kentucky – the latter of which played a wide receiver at quarterback all game.
 
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apsuhead said:
Y! SPORTS

Lane Kiffin (3) at both Tennessee and USC. When: 2009 at Tennessee, 2010-Sunday at USC. Why: Deserter in Knoxville; inept in Los Angeles; unlikeable at both. Was it an obvious mistake beforehand? For sure the second time, and a dicey fit the first time. Kiffin actually provided a brief blip of sunshine with the Volunteers, leading them to their only winning season since 2007. But at 7-6, he was barely worth all the headaches he caused – and then he fled to USC and really ticked off the Big Orange faithful. The Trojans' 2012 flop from No. 1 to 7-6 was among the worst in recent memory.
Derek Dooley (4) at Tennessee. When: 2010-12. Why: Gene pool didn't carry much weight come kickoff. Was it an obvious mistake beforehand? To everyone outside the Volunteer State. Dooley went 4-8 the previous year at Louisiana Tech and had a 17-20 record overall there. At Tennessee, he went 0-15 against ranked opponents; gave up 40 or more points nine times; and lost to perennial whipping boys Vanderbilt and Kentucky – the latter of which played a wide receiver at quarterback all game.
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Nasty...salt to the wounds
 
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apsuhead said:
Y! SPORTS

Lane Kiffin (3) at both Tennessee and USC. When: 2009 at Tennessee, 2010-Sunday at USC. Why: Deserter in Knoxville; inept in Los Angeles; unlikeable at both. Was it an obvious mistake beforehand? For sure the second time, and a dicey fit the first time. Kiffin actually provided a brief blip of sunshine with the Volunteers, leading them to their only winning season since 2007. But at 7-6, he was barely worth all the headaches he caused – and then he fled to USC and really ticked off the Big Orange faithful. The Trojans' 2012 flop from No. 1 to 7-6 was among the worst in recent memory.
Derek Dooley (4) at Tennessee. When: 2010-12. Why: Gene pool didn't carry much weight come kickoff. Was it an obvious mistake beforehand? To everyone outside the Volunteer State. Dooley went 4-8 the previous year at Louisiana Tech and had a 17-20 record overall there. At Tennessee, he went 0-15 against ranked opponents; gave up 40 or more points nine times; and lost to perennial whipping boys Vanderbilt and Kentucky – the latter of which played a wide receiver at quarterback all game.
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just rubbing it in :no:
 
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I look forward to the sequel: Worst AD Decisions in Recent Memory starring yet another of "our own".
 
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