Kiffin on late kick.

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Looks like a heavy drinker. I gotta admit, I always kind of liked him once I got over the initial rage.
 
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Voltopia said:
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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This right here ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
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onevol74 said:
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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Not even close. He had ESPN talking about UT football in February when we weren't even relevant. He nabbed the #1 RB with not even a month's recruiting. (Nevermind how that turned out... point is he was doing things). Butch did the most damage when he let the players decide for him to fire the strength coach.
 
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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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Agree on both comments... on his statements, and he just doesn't look heallthy
 
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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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Some coaches can handle the stress for 40 years. Some coaches like butch and now Kiffin look like they age 20 years in 5.
 
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Anybody know how to reduce the amount of red in a windows laptop screen? Just as soon as the camera went to Lane, mine blew up and he looked like he had been on the surface of the sun.
 
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When Kiffen left for USC, I told all my Vol friends that Tennessee would be lost in the wilderness for the next 15 years. I was wrong. It took 20 years.
 
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I still remember how excited my dad and I were up until the blocked kick against Alabama and how heartbroken all of us were when he bolted for USC. A lot of us thought he’d be here for several, several years along with bringing great success. Him leaving set our program back a tremendous amount of years and brought so much pain and suffering
 
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SpaceCoastVol said:
Not even close. He had ESPN talking about UT football in February when we weren't even relevant. He nabbed the #1 RB with not even a month's recruiting. (Nevermind how that turned out... point is he was doing things). Butch did the most damage when he let the players decide for him to fire the strength coach.
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Being an Al Davis reject should have been a clue that he was a POS FROM THE GET GO.
 
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Voltopia said:
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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Ed was a used car salesman who struck gold with Burrow as QB for one yr. At least he was honest when he was let go, stating why wouldn’t he be happy “as he was getting paid millions.”

Idk any details but have a feeling the football program was dirty under O.
 
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At this point what school would want him. Yeah he’s a pretty good offensive coach but he is toxic. Look at every place he’s been. His team was 8-1 last year and he starts talking to Auburn. The team immediately tanked. He’s not worth the trouble.
 
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I almost needed closed captioning for that interview because he was such a low talker. He definitely looks like he's been hitting the bottle.
 
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ankh83 said:
Josh Pate asked Lane Kiffin "If you could go back and give any advise to yourself before you took the Southern Cal job, what would it be?"



5:40 timestamp
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Interesting interview. Normally, I try to avoid LK, but I watched from your time stamp and then went back and watched the whole thing. Weird to hear LK saying grown up things.
 
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He’s still an immature a$$ hole who doesn’t give sh*t about Tennessee or any of us.

Anyone whom thinks otherwise is lying to themselves.
 
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I like the guy. I was hoping the mob would catch him back in the day, but come on, it was his dream job coming for him at an almost unheard-of age for where he was. Shady how it went down, but he looked out for number one. I would have too. He is funny, his players tend to love him, he is talented, and he is proving to have learned by staying at jobs for respectable amounts of time. Live and let live.
 
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Manning Up said:
When Kiffen left for USC, I told all my Vol friends that Tennessee would be lost in the wilderness for the next 15 years. I was wrong. It took 20 years.
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May want to redo your math, friend.

From Kiffin's departure at the end of the 2009 season to Heupel's arrival in January of 2021 was only 11 years and a bit. We left the wilderness when Dan White came to Knoxville and brought Josh along.
 
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Calling his class a total bust is being kind. It was that bad.

By the 2011 season, 10 players had transferred or were dismissed, including Brown, Jackson, Myles, Richardson, four-star linebacker Jerod Askew and three-star safety Mike Edwards. The top six players in the class were gone within two years. Only eight players were with the program by January 2012.

Only five signees completed their careers at Tennessee: King, Teague, wide receiver Zach Rogers and defensive linemen Marlon Walls and Daniel Hood.

There was the infamous armed robbery incident in November 2009 with Richardson, Edwards and Jackson. Myles was dismissed in July 2010 after the infamous Knoxville fight, his second arrest of that summer. Brown's transfer was a drawn-out saga as he wound up at Kansas State and still had a brief NFL stint after he was a seventh-round draft pick in 2012. Jackson was dismissed August 2011.

Other than Brown, the only player from the class to make it to the NFL was Montori Hughes, the defensive tackle who was dismissed from the program in 2011 and became a fifth-round pick two years later after getting his career back on track at UT Martin. He signed with the Redskins last month.

Looking back at the first classes for new Vols coaches: 2009
 
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Manning Up said:
When Kiffen left for USC, I told all my Vol friends that Tennessee would be lost in the wilderness for the next 15 years. I was wrong. It took 20 years.
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Lol. Sure you did 😂😂😂😂. Sorry but this is BS. Nobody thought we would have went through anything CLOSE to what we did. Remember Kiffin went 7-6 in 2009. Almost beat one of Sabans best teams. Most rational Vol fans expected Hamilton to redeem himself because TN was still relevant nationally. Like I said, not you nor anyone else thought we would be in the tank for 15 years.
 
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