When Kiffin Left

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#26
I'm amazed how much this fanbase is concerned with Lane Kiffin. You would have thought he coached here for several years and he left 6 months ago.
 
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Was pulling in my driveway and heard my phone go off. I glanced down and looked at an espn update that said "Tennessee coach Lane Kiffin is leaving for USC". I about wrecked.
 
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smokeyhuntsgators said:
I was actually reading an article on another website that was about why Kiffin wouldn't go to USC, and then I heard a commotion in the living room. It was my husband using every 4-letter word known to man and shooting birds at the TV when they showed Kiffin. As for my reaction, I was fairly calm for a while. Then I started reading comments on another site regarding fan's reactions to his departure, and the rage hit me all at once.

That being said, it was the way he left that pissed me off not because he left. Glad he's gone because we are better off without that cancer.
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Yea I remember the article it was on GOVOLS EXTRA and it said his buy out was 800,000 to much for USC and the next thing you know reports was he was headed to USC.
 
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VolFan37323 said:
Saw it on Twiitter and thought I would post it here and see what some of you guys were doing when your heard the news. I will never forget it I was setting at my computer and and was surfing the web and came across ESPN and there it was KIFFIN BOLTS FOR USC. I swear something died inside of me that night it was basically as if I had just heard about a tragic death was the way I felt.
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I was playing with my daughter and a buddy of mine called from work. He told me to turn on ESPN. I did and the meltdown ensued...
 
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VolFan37323 said:
Saw it on Twiitter and thought I would post it here and see what some of you guys were doing when your heard the news. I will never forget it I was setting at my computer and and was surfing the web and came across ESPN and there it was KIFFIN BOLTS FOR USC. I swear something died inside of me that night it was basically as if I had just heard about a tragic death was the way I felt.
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You did, the death of Tennessee football. We all heard but did not know what it was or how bad it would be.
 
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1972 Grad said:
It wasn't a defining moment in my life. I have no idea where I was. I do remember where I was when I listened on the radio to Alan Shepherd's first manned U.S. space flight, and John Glenn's first orbit around the Earth, and where I was when Kennedy was assassinated, and Lee Harvey Oswald was shot. Kiffin leaving isn't a big deal.
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Good for you not giving a damn about this program.
I, on the other hand, was a little more than rattled.
 
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VolFan37323 said:
Yea I remember the article it was on GOVOLS EXTRA and it said his buy out was 800,000 to much for USC and the next thing you know reports was he was headed to USC.
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One of the comments about the article was a person voicing his concern that Kiffin would leave for USC. And the rest of us thought he was crazy for thinking that. He just had a feeling something was gonna happen and soon.
 
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Volsfaninva917 said:
Was at a local bar with my wife and remember va tech fans laughing
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I live in L.A.....was at work and said you have to be F£€#!NG kidding me!!!!! USC fans at work almost went to Watts and rioted....they didn't want him out here either from day one after having Pete's run of dominance.
 
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DERELICK_MY_VOLS said:
I live in L.A.....was at work and said you have to be F£€#!NG kidding me!!!!! USC fans at work almost went to Watts and rioted....they didn't want him out here either from day one after having Pete's run of dominance.
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Since you live out in L.A and close to the USC do you think it was all planned out the way it has been. I was very confused the first time cause they never called there current head coach and I really thought that he would get a call.
 
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My UK fan friend told me about it. It put the first crack in my "UT is the Mecca of college football" belief I had built up. There have been quite a few cracks since then
 
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I was at my computer. I just went to espn to see scores and saw it on the front page. I was pretty stunned, but I didn't think it was that big a deal at first. My first thought was "Oh well, screw that guy. Hope we get someone good to replace him." A few minutes later, it dawned on me that we had an incompetent AD and a large group of defeatist fans and that combination wouldn't go out and get a winner but would find the first loser they could get with the least amount of effort. Sadly, I've been riding a streak of being right about the course of UT football ever since.
 
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I was living at Gateway Apartments in Knoxville at the time, my sophomore year. One of our friends called and said turn it to ESPN right now! We did, and a silence fell over the apartment. Then another friend burst in the door and said, "They're rioting on campus, let's go! We may never have a chance to participate in a riot again." We went, we rioted, we threw our "It's Time" shirts into the mattress fire. Good fun.
 
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1972 Grad said:
I didn't say that I didn't care, but I try to put things in perspective. It's football after all.
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Agree. The notion that people's lives would be thrown into chaos over a coach leaving is hard for me to relate to. But I guess it's better than fans not caring at all.
 
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