If you can stomach reading this Dennis Dodd piece on Junior, you’ll see that Kiffin’s back in his everything-I-do-is-on-purpose mode.
And maybe it is. The thing is, at this point, who the hell knows? More importantly, what’s the point?
I mean, I understand the need to raise the program’s profile and generate new excitement for the fan base and for recruits. I just wonder if his is the best way (assuming it really is all part of a calculated plan) to accomplish it.
Months ahead of the game, this comes off as cool bravado…
Hee-hee. It seems like the joke is on everybody else. Shortly before the spring presser, someone showed Kiffin a cell phone picture of one of his famous quotes now hanging in the Gators’ new Heavener Football Complex.
“I’m really looking forward to embracing some of the great traditions at the University of Tennessee,” Kiffin said the day he was hired, “for instance the Vol Walk, running through the T, singing Rocky Top all night long after we beat Florida next year. It will be a blast.”
Glancing at the phone picture, the coach smiled and said, “Beautiful. Awesome. Wonderful. They even put our logo on it. Free advertising and we didn’t have to pay for it.”
… but if his kids get their asses handed to them on a platter in the Swamp, how beautiful is it going to be then?
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How is Kiffin’s advertising to Gator football players a good thing. The ad should have just said “Hey come kick our asses this year.” Also does Tennessee really need to advertise itself. Is there any recruit out there who has never heard of them. What kind of excuses will Kiffin have at the presser right after Florida destroys them this year?
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I have to believe that Gene Chizik is Kiffin’s #1 fan. Remember how just about everyone was questioning both hires? Well, Chizik is now flying under the radar and Kiffin is taking all flak.
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JasonC—“It’s better to remain quiet and have everyone think you’re an idiot than to speak and remove all doubt.” Kiffin obviously never learned that.
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OMG, it gets richer by the day.
My favorite part of this entire thing is the segment of the Ufk fanbase that is delusionally calling the other schools in the SEC “scared.”
What?
Each week, the school must prepare for Spurrier, Meyer, Saban, Richt, etc. Kiffin is last on the list.
And the thing about Ufk’s recruiting is this: they have the most NFL alumni playing right now. It is not as if they have not been recruiting at a high level. They needed to hire someone who could coach, and they did not.
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How is putting his quote in the UF locker room free advertising? Are current UF football players and staff really his target audience? I’m guessing if the UT logo was in the urinal cakes in the Swamp he’d be all excited about that, too.
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You need free publicity if you are a non-profit that’s trying to feed homeless people. If you are a storied SEC football team that is just two years removed from playing in the SEC title game, you don’t need free publicity. Recruits have a pretty good idea who you are.
I concur with Joe. Tennessee got rid of Fulmer because they needed a coach. Instead, they got a retarded mascot.
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The old saying of any publicity is good publicity isn’t always true.
… but if his kids get their asses handed to them on a platter in the Swamp, how beautiful is it going to be then?
No disrespect Senator but I think this a question of when not if.
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The best thing that could happen would be for Kiffie & Co. to go down to the Swamp and win that game. One can only imagine how crazy that would drive ol’ Urban.
Unfortunately, I think there is a much better chance of UT getting blown out by UF and then beating UGA at home, thus once again making Georgia part of a “program defining” win for an opponent.
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Mr. Realist: so you’re saying UT hired the SEC coaching version of Radio?
I see a great Will Ferrall movie based on the true life adventures of Lane Kiffin in the future. It’ll kind of be Talladega Nights meets The Replacements meets Billy Madison meets Edward Scissorhands meets The Longest Yard (the mediocre remake, not the first one) meets The Full Monty meets Ma and Pa Kettle Go To Hawaii.
I can see the pitch meeting to the money guys now. Maybe I should start lining up producers. This stuff could basically right itself. Will Ferrall could play Lane Kiffin, Lou Ferrigno can play Coach Orgeron, Yoda from Star Wars can play Monte Kiffin, Bea Arthur can play Phil Fulmer, and the part of Mrs. Lane Kiffin can be played by Scarlett Johanssen.
Feel free to add other potential cast members.
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Some of you guys act like his comments hurt you personally. Honestly, who cares? If he comes out next year and wins alot of games, he will look like a genious, if not. Oh well its a 1st year coach in a rebuilding year. He cant lose. And if he does beat Fla, It may just kill Urban and that would be good for us as well. Let him talk, I just sit back and wait for the Dawgs to own this guy.
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Glancing at the phone picture, the coach smiled and said, “Beautiful. Awesome. Wonderful. They even put our logo on it. Free advertising and we didn’t have to pay for it.”
Oh, you’ll pay for it alright.
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