That's where you're wrong. I actually respected UT and Fulmer before Kiffin's arrival. My cousin just signed to play a sport there last year.

Here's what I really think: Kiffin has the ability to make his assessments and give his opinions without laying the blame or shortcomings at somebody else's feet every time... he won't take accountability for anything. It is possible to give your opinion about Ole Miss and their players, without the last part that clips Fulmer and his own kids. And that's what he does every single time. He makes his point, but can't seem to resist taking a little shot at somebody at the end... every f*cking time. And that's what I find childish and immature.

It's like he doesn't want anybody to get the impression that anything that might happen could possibly be his fault; so he launches a preemptive strike outlining everything he's up against, and the "disaster" he was left, just in case things don't go his way. To a certain extent, I can understand it, because he took a beating before, during, and after his stint with Oakland; and now he's over-compensating by trying to make sure folks know all about the various problems (some real, some embellished or exaggerated on) he has so nobody thinks he screwed the pooch. The problem is, most folks see what he's trying to do, and have followed college ball enough to know that he's full of sh*t much of the time, and he's not really in as bad a shape as he makes out.

Putting that, and his previous unwarranted and abrasive comments together is as simple as 2+2.