Anyone else starting to think Lane Kiffin is the luckiest SOB on the planet?

Watching/reading all the boneheaded things Kiffin has done since UT hired him, I am really starting to believe that Kiffin is one of those goofy lucky basterds who navigate life on a completely different level than the rest of us.

Anyone ever work for a company where a guy gets hired because of who his dad is? It is as if someone says "well....his dad is really really good and smart, the kid has to be good, right?"

They ignore the fact that he may in fact be retarded.

The kid was never much of a player....he gave up his senior year at Fresno to be a student assistant coach.

Meanwhile---his dad tears up the NFL and develops an outstanding reputation.

Jacksonville hires the kid as a quality control assistant which he has for ONE YEAR!

Next, the kid has the absolute dumbfrock luck of being hired by Pete Carroll.

Carroll with Fast Eddie Orgeron recruits the very best athletes to USC. Kiffin just sits there as WR coach while Norm Chow creates an offense that just destroys teams.

Next---he gets the title of co-OC with Steve Sarkasian...and who does he have to work with? REGGIE BUSH.

Next---some loony tunes NFL owner decides that makes him worthy of being an NFL coach. And hires him.

He and said old man implode.

Next---4 goofy UT boosters convince the university president and AD that Kiffin has "it"---which is basically a smoking hot wife.

Kiffin hasn't won the lottery.

Kiffin has won the lottery at least 8 times.

This guy is basically Forrest Gump with a smoking hot wife, and a large coaching contract.

I hate him !!!!!!!!!That basterd!!!!!!!!

I might sound crazy but give Tennessee 2 years

Originally Posted by ZBOIZ

I might sound crazy but give Tennessee 2 years

Fulmer didn't leave the cupboard bare---the UT admin just wanted change.

Kiffin has spent more than any other SEC program (including Alabama) on assistant coaches, including Kiffin's dad as DC. He even managed to get Orgeron back in the fold.

I don't think he will win big though.

In terms of a football brain---Kiffin is fighting as a handicapped child when you compare him to guys like Urban Meyer, Richt, Saban, Nutt, and Miles.

Take Reggie Bush and Norm Chow out of Kiffin's life and Kiffin is a high school coach somewhere.

You right..

But good coaches surround themselves around good coaches.

Originally Posted by MartinBlank

Fulmer didn't leave the cupboard bare---the UT admin just wanted change.

Kiffin has spent more than any other SEC program (including Alabama) on assistant coaches, including Kiffin's dad as DC. He even managed to get Orgeron back in the fold.

I don't think he will win big though.

In terms of a football brain---Kiffin is fighting as a handicapped child when you compare him to guys like Urban Meyer, Richt, Saban, Nutt, and Miles.

Take Reggie Bush and Norm Chow out of Kiffin's life and Kiffin is a high school coach somewhere.

They spend something like 2x any other sec program on football operations!!!

Originally Posted by MartinBlank

Fulmer didn't leave the cupboard bare---the UT admin just wanted change.

Kiffin has spent more than any other SEC program (including Alabama) on assistant coaches, including Kiffin's dad as DC. He even managed to get Orgeron back in the fold.

I don't think he will win big though.

In terms of a football brain---Kiffin is fighting as a handicapped child when you compare him to guys like Urban Meyer, Richt, Saban, Nutt, and Miles.

Take Reggie Bush and Norm Chow out of Kiffin's life and Kiffin is a high school coach somewhere.

so true

He does have good coaches, but is not ready to win in the SEC. 6-6 this year.

Just might be post of the year. Love it.

This guy is basically Forrest Gump with a smoking hot wife, and a large coaching contract.

Sometimes you read an entertaining post and it does not come through in the end. This line above, however, delivers.

Great post and I am stealing your forrest gump quote.

Good coaching can not make up for poor players. He has experienced coaches, but coaches who have done nothing in the college ranks for the last few years now. Look at Norm Chow. He went for genius at USC to O.K. at pro team Tennessee to not much at UCLA. The game passes people by. The samrt HC's keep rotating their staffs so that they can keep up with the ever changing game.

Tennessee has noting offensively speaking. All of their hotshot coaches could not draft a single decet QB this past season, or keep the ones they had. Tennessee plays a very soft schedule this year. 8 games at home, and no LSU. Nest year, it gets a lot tougher. They go to LSU, Georgia,South Carolina and two other away games. Oregon takes the place of UCLA. They play Florida at home, along with Ole Miss. And on top of all that, they lose thier best player in Eric Berry. Kiffin may luck out and win up to 8 games this season, but in 2010, reality sets in and Tennessee goes back to a .500 team. Remember, this team has done nothing in the past 8 years or so. They have not been a toptier SEC team for quite a while now, no matter what Tennessee fans want to believe.

Kiffin did manage to get Eric Berry's 13 yr old brother to commit though