Gotta say that I have lost a ton of respect for Monte Kiffin in all of this. He messed up somewhere in raising that boy of his.
Another Sip Opinion- The REAL Reason Kiffin Left UT
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I agree with you. Kiffin is back in LA because he is one of their "Golden Boys" and he loves the left coast. Same goes for his wife. So, it makes sense for him to prefer the California lifestyle to Rocky Top. The problem is that Kiffin will leave USC (and he will leave) with a greatly diminished reputation. This will be the stop that destroys his head coaching career.
What still amazes me is that how Hamiltion got sucked into believing what this guy was spewing. There has never been any substance in his history, so Hamilton really rolled the dice on this one. As evidence, I still can't believe how Kiffin brushed off Frank Beamer when they met at mid field after their bowl game. Total lack of class on his part and evidence he is a spoiled brat.
Me too. You would think that Monte would have let at least insisted that Lane inform Reaves, his daughter-in-law's brother, what he was doing. Scab said that Reaves heard about it on tv.
I seriously doubt that Reaves wasn't informed by his sister.
Reaves is probably just circulating that story so he will seem like an outsider and oblivious to what was going on so he can hold on to his job.
Re: Opinion - The reason USC hired Kiffin
It's put up or shut up time for the NCAA. They either have to hammer U$C or come off looking like a bully that will back down when challenged. Which I think they are.
I think that U$C looked at what happened to Bama when the cooperated with the NCAA and when the NCAA came knocking at their door, decided to take the opposite track. No cooperation, no respect, no nothing. Hiring Kiffie and the Ogre was just another lifted middle finger to the NCAA. We'll see how the NCAA responds. But if they just slap the Trojans on the wrist, I can promise you that every other program, when approached by the NCAA in the future, will tell them to put their investigation where the sun don't shine.
It's put up or shut up time for the NCAA. They either have to hammer U$C or come off looking like a bully that will back down when challenged. Which I think they are.
There's really no reason why Kiffin needs to coach.
If he can recruit top athletes to USC, stay out of trouble with the NCAA and hire top-level assistants, he'll win there. USC just can overwhelm the other PAC-10 schools with their combination of financing, tradition and environment.
Kiffin just needs to be the CEO-type coach and focus on managing a talented staff.
Of course, his personality is likely his worst enemy. He seems like a meddler and he doesn't appear to respect the authority of the NCAA. Those two things will torpedo his chances of success if he doesn't recognize that now is the time to grow up.
If he can recruit top athletes to USC, stay out of trouble with the NCAA and hire top-level assistants, he'll win there. USC just can overwhelm the other PAC-10 schools with their combination of financing, tradition and environment.
Kiffin just needs to be the CEO-type coach and focus on managing a talented staff.
Of course, his personality is likely his worst enemy. He seems like a meddler and he doesn't appear to respect the authority of the NCAA. Those two things will torpedo his chances of success if he doesn't recognize that now is the time to grow up.
Yeah, I gotta agree. I have seen lots of posts on this board talking about how much people respect Monte. But I am having a hard time respecting anyone who is responsible for raising such a toolbag.
I'd have to agree with that Sip.
And i don't like Kiffin, UT, or Al Davis.
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Re: Opinion - The reason USC hired Kiffin
Probably accurate. USC knows they have five real bad years coming so they looked around for a slime ball who could take the trip around the bowl and down the hole while they spend those five years doing a real coach search. Meanwhile, there's a whole lot of cosmic re-alignment going on. :biggrin2:
It seems to have been understood by Baptist church people that a preacher is considered a kid until he hits age thirty-five. Then and only then will most boards of deacons listen to any suggestions he has.
There are of course exceptions, but many people don't really get their feet on the ground until their mid to late thirties. Many people nowadays make career changes, and age thirty-five or thereabouts seems to be a common time to do this. If you look into people's career changes about that time, you are apt to see a different person from the one that pursued something for years they weren't comfortable with or that they just got tired of doing. Perhaps the person had been doing something Mama wanted him to do in the first place, and then he decided in his thirties to do what HE wanted to do.
If I were a football coach in my early thirties, had been hired by Al Davis to coach the Oakland Raiders, then had been fired by him, and then this Tennessee job opened up, chances are great that I'm taking that job. Then, "when Mama called" for me to go back home, particularly if, as Sip says, things were looking tough at Tennessee, then I would go back home.
Of course, a lot of ex-coaches wind up selling insurance. That is, if they didn't make enough money coaching. If Kiffin decides one day that "my parents were the ones who wanted me to coach anyway," then he may retire to a beach house at Malibu before he is forty.
There are of course exceptions, but many people don't really get their feet on the ground until their mid to late thirties. Many people nowadays make career changes, and age thirty-five or thereabouts seems to be a common time to do this. If you look into people's career changes about that time, you are apt to see a different person from the one that pursued something for years they weren't comfortable with or that they just got tired of doing. Perhaps the person had been doing something Mama wanted him to do in the first place, and then he decided in his thirties to do what HE wanted to do.
If I were a football coach in my early thirties, had been hired by Al Davis to coach the Oakland Raiders, then had been fired by him, and then this Tennessee job opened up, chances are great that I'm taking that job. Then, "when Mama called" for me to go back home, particularly if, as Sip says, things were looking tough at Tennessee, then I would go back home.
Of course, a lot of ex-coaches wind up selling insurance. That is, if they didn't make enough money coaching. If Kiffin decides one day that "my parents were the ones who wanted me to coach anyway," then he may retire to a beach house at Malibu before he is forty.
Re: Opinion - The reason USC hired Kiffin
Thats a pretty look into the future, interesting to say the least he could get whats coming to him in the end.
I don't think the insolent little punk had any ulterior reasons for going to USC other than the fact that he's a West Coast guy and he had a chance at the best plum job on the West Coast , naturally he took it.
Him not having a scintilla of loyalty or moral fiber made this an easy decision for him to make.
Him not having a scintilla of loyalty or moral fiber made this an easy decision for him to make.
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