Lane Kiffin finalizing new 10-year deal with FAU

[hmhawk]

Yawn !!

 

[ITSGR82BATNVOL]

Not many marriages these days last 10 years...all I'm sayin

 

[illinoisvolfan1]

I still would have taken him back at UT.

Swallow my butt-hurt pride.

He is a damn good coach.

 

[K-town Vol Fan]

Watch Coach of the Year Finalist Lane Kiffin and his Florida Atlantic team wipe out Toledo in the Boca Raton Bowl at 7 tonight, December 19, on ESPN.

His team accomplished the following:
- one of three FBS schools to average 250+ yards rushing and 200+ yards passing per game
- Only 17 FBS teams in 2017 averaged more trips to the red zone
- Only 10 teams had 2 or more first downs a higher % of drives
- FAU was the most efficient 3rd down team in the country
- Only 7 FBS teams had a higher % of good plays, 10 yards or more or score a touchdown.
- Only 3 FBS schools had more first downs
- Only 13 teams had more pass completions plus rush attempts
- Only 7 FBS teams had a higher offensive line efficiency rating

Listen, Johnny Majors wanted Lane. If not for Fulmer's feuds with the guy he replaced and the guy who replaced him, Tennessee football would be the talk of the nation for years to come. Instead, we are once again going to be stuck in mediocrity with a novice coach and a current recruiting class ranked 53rd as we speak.

Arkansas, Oregon, Ole Miss, Miss St., UF, UT, and even smaller schools....nobody wanted him. And people that want him here are pathetic imo. And no one ever has answer as to why USC got better immediately after he was fired with the same amount of scholarship players.

 

[Sandman 423]

Seriously? The cheating ex girlfriend analogy is overused and really lazy.....

It is literally nothing like Lane and UT's history.

It is truly sad how many grown adults are butthurt over a sport.

Why didn't FSU go get him. WT isn't a better coach so why pass him over for WT. It isn't just UT that has a problem with Lane.

 

[K-town Vol Fan]

No one is whining. Had we had a legit coaching search, Lane coming back made no sense. However, after the Schiano nonsense where UT was a laughingstock (not that I care what national media think), hiring Lane would have made perfect sense. Hell, once we got to the point of Doeren saying no, Lane coming back would have united a big portion of the fan base in the players, students, and younger fans.

Do I think he is going to be at FAU for 10 years? No. But I do think he is about to go on a Petersen/Boise State run over the next 5-7 years.

Good for Kiffin. He's shown that he's mature just by the quotes in the story posted by OP.

Just think its funny that people are butthurt over Lane when the same people would do the exact same thing if they were in his shoes and their dream job came open.

Dont blame him for leaving. If you bolted your current job in the middle of the night and then got fired at your new job a few years later would you expect your old job to take you back. I know the company I work for would tell you to seek employment elsewhere.

 

[volboy81]

Kiffin and loyalty in the same sentence!
BAAAAAAHAAAAAAHAAAAAA!

Tennessee would have been BEYOND stupid to have hired him. What a yutz!!

 

[volboy81]

Wouldn’t matter if it was a 100 year deal

The right team comes calling he’s out on the first thing smoking

He’ll leave skid marks and knock down old ladies leaving town for a real school!

 

[fade route]

As usual, you have nothing concrete to say.

Better to say nothing and have people......applicable.

What was there to say? Kiffin’s average record as a head coach is an easy google search......something you apparently had no interest in researching or discussing.

 

[allvol123]

What was there to say? Kiffin’s average record as a head coach is an easy google search......something you apparently had no interest in researching or discussing.

So you want to go with average win total over a small sample?

As he tacks years on this average win total will make you look dumb.

 

[docholiday]

There’s a reason Kiffin didn’t get hired by anyone else looking for a coach. Just because your drug dealing, cash stealing, lying, cheating ex-girlfriend lost a bit of weight, it doesn’t mean you take her back lol.

The reason is because the masses of idiot ad's and boosters that run these programs is overwhelming. Lane Kiffin is a bad ass period.

 

[fade route]

So you want to go with average win total over a small sample?

As he tacks years on this average win total will make you look dumb.

The SoCal AD believed the 4.5 years was enough of a sample size to leave his arse on the tarmac without a ride home.

By the way, that’s about the sample size Butch had - should we have given Butch more time? I mean, their win totals in the same amount of time in power 5 are almost identical.

 

[TNnative]

You Kiffin boys make the Gruden fans seem reasonable.

 

[allvol123]

The SoCal AD believed the 4.5 years was enough of a sample size to leave his arse on the tarmac without a ride home.

By the way, that’s about the sample size Butch had - should we have given Butch more time? I mean, their win totals in the same amount of time in power 5 are almost identical.

Ah. So your defense of your weak argument is to leap to the decision making of an AD. Awesome, as we have seen they are elite thinkers.

Bringing up Butch as a comparison to Kiffin clearly illustrates your knowledge on football. It is pathetic.

 

[OldRollTide]

Guess he is not coming to TN ?

 

[DeepSpringsVol]

Hard to believe he'd do that with all these other schools beating his door down to hire him away...


That's sarcasm, in case you can't tell.

This imo is to compensate him and school both. He gets more assurance to attract recruits. But when the day comes that a school comes and grabs him. The buyout will be putting FAU in good place to hire his replacement with a decent hire.

 

[fade route]

Ah. So your defense of your weak argument is to leap to the decision making of an AD. Awesome, as we have seen they are elite thinkers.

Bringing up Butch as a comparison to Kiffin clearly illustrates your knowledge on football. It is pathetic.

I’m simply pointing out a mathematical fact; that in power 5 coaching, Butch’s win total and Kiffin’s are very similar, or at least they were until about a month ago.

At his dream job he had a roster full of NFL caliber talent and only produced one 10 win season in a pretty weak power 5 conference in the PAC12. A lot of people bring up the scholarship reductions he was forced to deal with, but those didn’t take effect until year 3, meaning the entire time he was there he had a full class of juniors and seniors. He had everything he needed to win there, including Neuheisel as his cross town rival, and couldn’t make it happen. He is unproven at best as a head coach in power 5 and not worthy of a second chance here.

Your best defense of him is what he’s done this year at FAU, which is impressive, but not nearly enough when judged against the rest of his resume’. And if all of that weren’t enough, he’s an unlikable, trolling, twitter addict who’s best skill is self promotion. Do. Not. Want.

 

[TUSKtimes]

Power 5 teams will be scheduling FAU at their own peril going forward.

 

[Dtj64]

He wants to become a known man like Pat Garret by winning a NC at Florida Atlantic , or maybe a really cool super hero. His opening line at the presser: I AM LEGEND !!!

 

[SeniorDrill]

Tennessee needed an offensive mastermind not a defensive one. We are gonna be stuck for years under Pruitt trying to join the other 6 top 25 SEC teams inn scoring defense this year. ETSU made a better coaching hire once again. Don't know what Tennessee's problem is with former assistant coaches who won championships while here.

 

[BigOrangeTrain]

5-7 next year, buddy, ole pal! You heard it here first. Remember that.

Dude your Kiffin man love is just weak. The guy is where he belongs. Its just hilarious that every major, big time P5 team realizes that and you dont.

So we get that Tennessee was dumb to pass on him. Ok fine. So can you give any reason why the other big time programs that had job openings this year passed on him? And why would he even entertain the idea of staying 10 years at FAU?

 

[allvol123]

I’m simply pointing out a mathematical fact; that in power 5 coaching, Butch’s win total and Kiffin’s are very similar, or at least they were until about a month ago.

At his dream job he had a roster full of NFL caliber talent and only produced one 10 win season in a pretty weak power 5 conference in the PAC12. A lot of people bring up the scholarship reductions he was forced to deal with, but those didn’t take effect until year 3, meaning the entire time he was there he had a full class of juniors and seniors. He had everything he needed to win there, including Neuheisel as his cross town rival, and couldn’t make it happen. He is unproven at best as a head coach in power 5 and not worthy of a second chance here.

Your best defense of him is what he’s done this year at FAU, which is impressive, but not nearly enough when judged against the rest of his resume’. And if all of that weren’t enough, he’s an unlikable, trolling, twitter addict who’s best skill is self promotion. Do. Not. Want.

History will prove me right and you to be just another guy that can't see 2 steps ahead.

 

[allvol123]

Dude your Kiffin man love is just weak. The guy is where he belongs. Its just hilarious that every major, big time P5 team realizes that and you dont.

So we get that Tennessee was dumb to pass on him. Ok fine. So can you give any reason why the other big time programs that had job openings this year passed on him? And why would he even entertain the idea of staying 10 years at FAU?

Are you foolish enough to believe this is a contract a coach can't get out of early?

 

[Boston Vol]

He can get out of any deal, just watch.

Well like every other coach in th country his contract contains a buyout. So yes he can get out of the deal, like every one coach in the country.

 

[Boston Vol]

At his dream job he had a roster full of NFL caliber talent and only produced one 10 win season in a pretty weak power 5 conference in the PAC12. A lot of people bring up the scholarship reductions he was forced to deal with, but those didn’t take effect until year 3, meaning the entire time he was there he had a full class of juniors and seniors.

Actually the scholarship reductions started in 2011, not year three. Also SC lost a lot of upperclassmen before the 2010 season because the NCAA let players transfer without having to sit out a season. That’s the reason UT got Malik Jackson. For example of how the sanctions took a toll on the program, USC only took 43 scholarship players on the road to Oregon in 2011 when they upset the Ducks. So they definitely were never playing with a full deck.