..about Layne Kiffin.

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Tennessee

Fired: Phil Fulmer

Hired: Lane Kiffin



Commentary

In 1962 then Edward Kennedy ran in a Senate race in Massachusetts to fill the seat vacated by his brother when John F. Kennedy was elected to the Presidency. In this race Ted Kennedy was barely old enough, 30 years of age, to hold a Senate seat and up until Kennedy ran for this seat he did very little in his life that would qualify him to serve in the United States Senate. In the campaign debates against the Republican, George Cabot Lodge, Mr. Lodge pointed out that if Ted Kennedy’s last name was Smith, it would be laughable that anyone would vote for him to become a US Senator. Mr. Lodge’s pleas fell on deaf ears though and Ted Kennedy won on the slogan “I can do more for Massachusetts.” Ted Kennedy’s election to the US Senate in 1962and other similar circumstances have come to mind in recent days as Lane Kiffin’s name floated to top of Tennessee’s head coaching list and when he was named the head football coach at UT yesterday. Let’s just be very honest here…..If Lane Kiffin’s last name was Smith, there is not a chance in Hades that he is the head football coach at the University of Tennessee today.....


Lane Kiffin to Tennessee – A big topic of discussion at Coaches Hot Seat Central on Sunday, besides the Bogus BCS, was Lane Kiffin getting hired to be THE HEAD FOOTBALL COACH at the University of Tennessee. In the press release announcing the hiring of Lane Kiffin, Tennessee AD Mike Hamilton said:



“Over the past few weeks, we have been on the road meeting with prospective coaches and talking to some of football’s most influential and knowledgeable players and coaches about the future of the Tennessee football program,” UT Athletic Director Mike Hamilton said in a statement. “We have had unbelievable interest from great coaches. When it was all said and done, we felt like Lane Kiffin was a perfect fit for Tennessee. He’s energetic, charismatic, consumed with recruiting and has had a lifelong love affair with football.”



OK… So Lane Kiffin’s main attributes for the Tennessee head coaching job are: He’s energetic, charismatic, consumed with recruiting and has had a lifelong love affair with football.”



What? Hell that describes about 1 million college football fans across America and EVERYONE here at Coaches Hot Seat....



OK, enough with the Bogus BCS “every game counts in the regular season” and the Lane Kiffin “You have got to be F _ _ _ ING kidding me” out of the way, and let’s get to the Top 10 Coaches on the Post Week 14 Coaches Hot Seat Rankings:

Lane Kiffin hired at Tennessee – We will have a lot more to say about Lane Kiffin when he is officially hired at Tennessee on Monday, but just the idea of Tennessee reaching so far down the coaching ranks to hire a guy that would probably not be on Utah State, San Diego State, New Mexico, Wyoming, Toledo, Eastern Michigan, and Syracuse’s list of legitimate candidates for a new head coach should tell you all that you need to know about Lane Kiffin getting hired at Tennessee. A few of us here at Coaches Hot Seat know a few Oakland Raiders’ players and we are thinking about telling a few stories about Kiffin’s tenure at Oakland, but doing so may make Tennessee’s new hire look so dumb that they might change their mind, so we are still considering those stories. Of course, the Raiders is a dysfunctional organization and Lane walked into a disaster in Oakland, but with his Dad being in the League so long we have to believe that Kiffin knew exactly what he was getting into and everyone tells us that it went south with Davis and the Raiders organization pretty quickly. Lane Kiffin has a very unique personality and although we have never had a problem with Kiffin, he strikes us as someone that as Barry Switzer says…



“Is born on third base and thinks he hit a triple.”



By any measure Lane Kiffin is not qualified to be the head football coach at the University of Tennessee, and by any measure he is only marginally qualified to be the head football coach at San Diego State. That should tell everyone, including everyone at Tennessee a lot…

By any measure Lane Kiffin is not qualified to be the head football coach at the University of Tennessee, and by any measure he is only marginally qualified to be the head football coach at San Diego State. That should tell everyone, including everyone at Tennessee a lot…



Since we do trade in the firing and hiring of college football coaches here at Coaches Hot Seat, we do think about coaches that would have the ability to move up in the coaching profession from their current head and assistant coaches’ positions and to that point we have a large board up on the wall here at Coaches Hot Seat Central where we list the head and assistant coaches that we believe are most ready and qualified to move up to “Major” and “Minor” head coaching jobs and we rank those coaches from 1 on down until we get to the last coach we believe is ready for the “Major” and “Minor” coaching jobs. We consider Tennessee a “Major” head coaching job, as is Clemson, Syracuse and Washington in our minds, and we believe there are approximately 40 to 45 “Major” head coaching jobs in I-A football today . To that point there is a large board on the wall here that has as its title…



Head and Assistant Coaches Ready to Move Up to “Major” Head Coaching Jobs



…and here are those coaches starting from the No. 1 spot in order from 1 to 100 that we believe are ready to move to “Major” Head Coaching Jobs



1. Chris Peterson, Boise State

2. Mike Leach, Texas Tech

3. Gary Patterson, TCU

4. Bronco Mendenhall, BYU

5. Kyle Whittingham, Utah

6. Norm Chow, UCLA OC

7. Troy Calhoun, Air Force

8. Greg Schiano, Rutgers

9. Pat Hill, Fresno State

10. Pat Fitzgerald, Northwestern

11. Todd Graham, Tulsa

12. Dave Christensen, Missouri OC

13. Will Muschamp, Texas, DC

14. Bud Foster, Virginia Tech, DC

15. Brent Venables, Oklahoma DC

16. Skip Holtz, East Carolina

16. Brady Hoke, Ball State

17. Butch Jones, Central Michigan

18. Turner Gill, Buffalo

19. Mike Locksley, Illinois OC

20. David Bailiff, Rice



21 – 74. Other Head and Assistant Coaches



75. Mike Bobo, Georgia OC

76. Tyrone Nix, Ole Miss DC

77. Doc Holliday, West Virginia asst.

78. Brock Spack, Purdue OC.....



Where is Lane Kiffin?

Lane Kiffin to Tennessee? – Several of us here at Coaches Hot Seat reacted with astonishment when stories started breaking out of Knoxville on Tuesday and Wednesday that Tennessee had hired Lane Kiffin to replace Phil Fulmer as the head coach of the Vols. We were astonished by these stories on Kiffin to Tennessee, because we just could not believe that the folks making the hiring and firing decisions in Knoxville could possibly be so foolish to put a man in head coaching job at Tennessee that has done nothing in his coaching career to deserve such a job. We agree completely with the sentiments of Ron Higgins on Lane Kiffin, a columnist for the Memphis Commercial-Appeal, in a column he wrote for today’s paper…



Kiffin unqualified to be Vol coach