Interesting Article About the Night Kiffin Left

[Delmar]

A decade and a half ago. Who gives a f*** at this point.

LET. IT. GO.

It’s OK to study history. If you don’t learn from history, you are doomed to repeat it.

 

[Big Al Orange]

It’s OK to study history. If you don’t learn from history, you are doomed to repeat it.

This is very true. We need to be getting a better golf ball chunker right now.

 

[rocketskates]

Yep. The thing that folks forget about this was why we had to hire Dooley. Kiffin bailed at such a late date that very few options were left. If I recall correctly, we flirted with Kyle Whittingham. Or was that when we hired Butch? Nightmares and old age make for bad memories.

I think I would’ve liked making Kippy the interim and then going out to get an established coach the following season if he couldn’t handle the job. The Dooley hire knocked us down quite a few tiers on the respect level.

 

[landscapingvol]

I know everybody gets weary of discussing Kiffin but this is a really interesting (and long) article about the night he resigned. Quotes from a lot of players and media who were there. The thing I was really glad to hear was the upperclassmen who just wore him out at the team meeting where he announced he was leaving. Wouldn’t even let him speak. It also goes into great detail what Orgeron was doing while all this was happening. Jawaun James is particularly interesting.

‘All Hell Broke Loose’: An Oral History Of The Night Lane Kiffin Left Tennessee For USC | Rocky Top Insider

15 years after Lane Kiffin left Tennessee for USC, RTI talked to 13 people apart of the night to tell an oral history of that night.

www.rockytopinsider.com

I remember it vividly. I was a member of Volquest at the time and the “Guys, it’s true” reply to the continued questions for the Volquest staff about Kiffin leaving. Grumors have nothing on the days after Kiffin left lol

 

[TNHopeful505]

Quote of the article:

"We would have won some championships...but we would have had to give some back."

 

[Delmar]

This is very true. We need to be getting a better golf ball chunker right now.

It is a cautionary tale of things not to do both for Kiffin and us. He learned a valuable lesson as did we. In his case, the grass ain’t always greener, dream job or not. In our case, never make a panic hire.

 

[Volizona]

The best thing we can do is to ignore Kiffin to let him know he is totally irrelevant and not even a topic of discussion for us today. If we keep responding to his tweets, boo him when he comes to town, rehash his time here, he will assume we still think about him. We need to let him know that we really don’t care about him and we are just fine, in fact much better off without him. Let him know we are totally ambivalent. He is self absorbed and needs attention by hoping he still gets a reaction out of him.

 

[DaddyChad]

He literally had the Auburn job if he wanted it…. His daughter convinced him to stay. That sir is very much an upgrade in job.

Also USC fans turned out to be idiots when they canned him because they indeed did not turn out better for it.

People still having hurt feelings over a guy we would celebrate for doing the same thing for Tennessee are absurd.

K

 

[Jaxon_Vol2017]

And some wanted us to hire this clown back. I'd literally stop watching Tennessee football if we hired that scum bag again.