Kiffin on late kick.

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I have such conflicted opinions about him still. Part of me is still bitter and part of me is sympathetic when I remember some of the stupid decisions I made when i was younger.
Bottom line is that I am glad we currently have Heupel on the sideline instead of Kiffin. Don’t wish lane anything bad unless he is playing us or competing for a recruit against us. Wish him well otherwise, especially if he is making life miserable for Nick
 
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OrangeTsar said:
I have such conflicted opinions about him still. Part of me is still bitter and part of me is sympathetic when I remember some of the stupid decisions I made when i was younger.
Bottom line is that I am glad we currently have Heupel on the sideline instead of Kiffin. Don’t wish lane anything bad unless he is playing us or competing for a recruit against us. Wish him well otherwise, especially if he is making life miserable for Nick
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He has made his mistakes, this felt like an olive branch to me. Just nice to know, he knows he screwed up imo.
 
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It was a tough period in our history when he departed. Partially tough because of how he departed. But there were a cacophony of crooks and kooks in multiple layers of hierarchy which played a significant part in our post-Lane struggles. We have our man now. In fact, I like CJH over CLK. But there is regret in CLK's voice as he reflects on the younger man hastily trying to advance.
 
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I want to laugh at all of this. Sports is now a microcosm of life. A guy who is 35+ now looks at 17 year old kids and is pissed that they make decisions depending on money.

If a 17 year old engineer invents something and goes out and gets that patented through private means and then sells to Google for 2 billion everyone says that guy cheated or sold out, but if a guy is 40 devotes time and resources and sells to Google, it's smart business decision and if a guy cheats and steals Intellectual property at 60 and sells to Google it was a savvy business decision.

17 year old kids are making business decisions early and these head coaches need to get with it. Also, this guy won't make a different headline but he did utilize another school to make himself some change when he signed his new deal with his current school. Let's take Jordan Addison and think this should be the norm and these kids should go to the highest bidder.
 
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ankh83 said:
He has made his mistakes, this felt like an olive branch to me. Just nice to know, he knows he screwed up imo.
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I just Wonder which number would have been higher; number of SEC Championships vs number of years of probation? Could have went either way the way he seemed to play loose and fast with the rules in his earlier years
 
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OrangeTsar said:
Looks like a lot of time in the sun without enough hydration. Wonder if he has been golfing or fishing before fall camp
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I dunno. It looks more long term than that. It doesn't look like he is taking care of himself health-wise.

Not a bad guy at all. Some in here despise him, but I can't help but kinda like him.
 
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VolInNW said:
I dunno. It looks more long term than that. It doesn't look like he is taking care of himself health-wise.

Not a bad guy at all. Some in here despise him, but I can't help but kinda like him.
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He enjoys the competition, and in a fun way (not obsessive and angry like Saban). Hard not to like that in a coach. He is still a big kid having a great time doing what he loves. Heupel is a lot like that too Just not that degree of beings troll
 
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OrangeTsar said:
I just Wonder which number would have been higher; number of SEC Championships vs number of years of probation? Could have went either way the way he seemed to play loose and fast with the rules in his earlier years
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Even when he was here I wasn't sold on him, but having Monty in the defensive room really excited me. Dooley was worse than probation. I guess it all worked out in the end. I couldn't be more excited about where we are at currently.
 
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ankh83 said:
Even when he was here I wasn't sold on him, but having Monty in the defensive room really excited me. Dooley was worse than probation. I guess it all worked out in the end. I couldn't be more excited about where we are at currently.
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It sometimes takes a long and winding road to get to where you were supposed to wind up. Watching that FG go over the crossbar as the clock expired against Bama made up for a lot of misery
 
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volsfan24017 said:
For me, it's not that he left. It's how he left.
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In retrospect, while I don't have any love for Lane's leaving Tennessee, the thing that's stuck with me most is Ed Orgeron calling our players and telling them not to enroll and that they'd all have scholarships at USC. He may have just been the messenger, but that one act has been the thing I remember, and despise, most.

Some of that stuff that happened, we asked for it. Mike Hamilton brought that staff in and enabled it - or allowed it - to do what it did. The staff playing USC highlights in Tennessee's offices, the casual treatment of guys like Nu'Keese Richardson, all that stuff, Tennessee's AD had to know what it was getting into, to some degree. It was clear some of them were just using Tennessee for the paycheck.

But Orgeron calling our players and saying all that garbage? Choke on it, Ed.
 
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VolInNW said:
Very gracious statement by Kiffin.

But...wow....he looks really bad. Exhaustion? Bad diet? Something is going on, it seems. He hasn't aged well.
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Being an absolute sonuvabitch to everyone you encounter will do that to you. Name one program he hasn’t burn the bridge to the damn ground on the way out. Bama, Tennessee and USC wouldn’t pee on the guy if he was on fire.
 
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ankh83 said:
He has made his mistakes, this felt like an olive branch to me. Just nice to know, he knows he screwed up imo.
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We all do, looks like at least he's learned from some of his mistakes. Just admitting it publiclyis a big step.
 
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Have nothing against Lane KIffin, the person. But he was a bad hire for UT from the onset. He should have never been here and would not have been if we had a competent AD at the time. Firing Fulmer should have happened after the 2005 season and then we would have never been in that predicament.

If you think that Lane was a good hire, just look at the thugs he brought here and how that turned out for the program. He contributed to the car wreck as much as Dooley, Jones, or Pruitt.
 
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