Higgins is a moron

[LAJBoys]

I don't have the link because I'm on my phone but he has an article on govolsxtra blasting Hamilton and Kiffin. The title of his article should have been "I love Phillip Fulmer!"

http://www.govolsxtra.com/news/2008/...s/?partner=RSS

[gsvol]

Originally Posted by LAJBoys

I don't have the link because I'm on my phone but he has an article on govolsxtra blasting Hamilton and Kiffin. The title of his article should have been "I love Phillip Fulmer!"

Well he works for John Adams, what did you expect?

Their only objective is to create controversy and sell copy and boost ad revenue.

I hope to see the day when the KNS will be bankrupt and out of business.

[SavageOrangeJug]

Originally Posted by LAJBoys

I don't have the link because I'm on my phone but he has an article on govolsxtra blasting Hamilton and Kiffin. The title of his article should have been "I love Phillip Fulmer!"

He's a moron if your philosophy is, "nothing screams moron like telling the truth".

Kiffin has never accomplished anything as a head coach. All his rep comes from his time as Southern Cal's supposed offensive coordinator in 2005 and 2006, but USC didn't win the national titles in those years as it did the previous two seasons.

Also, play-calling was shared with quarterbacks coach Steve Sarkisian, with USC head coach Pete Carroll having veto power.

So just how brilliant is the boy wonder Kiffin? Consider that the University of Washington, a Pac-10 school, has an opening, and they haven't even given Kiffin, someone who knows the league, a sniff.

Sticking Kiffin in the SEC's all-star lineup of coaches that includes four coaches who have won national championships (Nick Saban, Steve Spurrier, Les Miles, Urban Meyer) and another with an unbeaten season (Auburn's Tommy Tuberville) would be like tossing a goldfish into a pool of piranhas.

[Business]

Originally Posted by gsvol

Well he works for John Adams, what did you expect?

Their only objective is to create controversy and sell copy and boost ad revenue.

I hope to see the day when the KNS will be bankrupt and out of business.

Ron Higgins does not work for John Adams. Higgins is a writer for the Memphis paper.

Again you are wrong.

[hatvol96]

Originally Posted by SavageOrangeJug

He's a moron if your philosophy is, "nothing screams moron like telling the truth".

So, according to Higgins, making contact with someone and being told they aren't interested constitutes not giving that person "a sniff." Higgins needs to stick to being the welfare version of that idiot Tony Barnhardt. Sucking up to redneck rube coaches is his long suit. Actual reporting, not so much.
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[Ohio Vol]

Originally Posted by SavageOrangeJug

Kiffin has never accomplished anything as a head coach. All his rep comes from his time as Southern Cal's supposed offensive coordinator in 2005 and 2006, but USC didn't win the national titles in those years as it did the previous two seasons.

Also, play-calling was shared with quarterbacks coach Steve Sarkisian, with USC head coach Pete Carroll having veto power.

So just how brilliant is the boy wonder Kiffin? Consider that the University of Washington, a Pac-10 school, has an opening, and they haven't even given Kiffin, someone who knows the league, a sniff.

Sticking Kiffin in the SEC's all-star lineup of coaches that includes four coaches who have won national championships (Nick Saban, Steve Spurrier, Les Miles, Urban Meyer) and another with an unbeaten season (Auburn's Tommy Tuberville) would be like tossing a goldfish into a pool of piranhas.

Saban before coming to the SEC -- 6 years of HC experience (1 at Toledo, 5 at Michigan State) with a 43-26-1 record and a MAC title at Toledo (0-3 in bowls)
Meyer before coming to the SEC -- 4 years of HC experience (2-0 in bowls)
Tuberville before being hired at Auburn -- 4 years HC experience with a 25-20 record (1-0 in bowls)
Spurrier before coming to the SEC -- 3 years HC experience with a 20-13-1 record (0-1 in bowls)
Miles before coming to the SEC -- 4 years HC experience with a 28-21 record (1-2 in bowls)

What a bunch of behemoths these schools hired at the time!

[GAVol]

He makes some valid points, but then at the end he brings up Mike Leach which makes absolutely no sense after his diatribe about Kiffin never having done anything to prove he could win in the SEC. Add Higgins to the growing list of sportswriters losing their minds because Hamilton looks like he might step slightly out of the box.

[hatvol96]

Originally Posted by GAVol

He makes some valid points, but then at the end he brings up Mike Leach which makes absolutely no sense after his diatribe about Kiffin never having done anything to prove he could win in the SEC. Add Higgins to the growing list of sportswriters losing their minds because Hamilton looks like he might step slightly out of the box.

"Losing their minds" indicates they have something to, in fact, lose. That's not the case with most of those guys. Higgins is another hick who liked having Fulmer around because they are intellectual equivalents.
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[GAVol]

Seriously, how do you write a diatribe like that and then mention Mike Leach in the same sentence as Butch Davis?

So if I'm Hamilton, I'd make either Texas Tech's Mike Leach or North Carolina's Butch Davis write in blood that they wouldn't want to coach Tennessee before giving up on them.


They are the type of innovative and proven coaches Tennessee deserves, not a 33-year-old who supposedly wants to hire (are you ready?) old USC staff coaching pal Orgeron.

What has Leach proven other than he can create stat monster QB's that throw it too much and finish 3rd in the Big 12 South every year?

[hatvol96]

Originally Posted by GAVol

Seriously, how do you write a diatribe like that and then mention Mike Leach in the same sentence as Butch Davis?

How do you continue to mention a guy as a candidate who has turned down 3 separate offers?
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[utmba93]

Originally Posted by Ohio Vol

Saban before coming to the SEC -- 6 years of HC experience (1 at Toledo, 5 at Michigan State) with a 43-26-1 record and a MAC title at Toledo (0-3 in bowls)
Meyer before coming to the SEC -- 4 years of HC experience (2-0 in bowls)
Tuberville before being hired at Auburn -- 4 years HC experience with a 25-20 record (1-0 in bowls)
Spurrier before coming to the SEC -- 3 years HC experience with a 20-13-1 record (0-1 in bowls)
Miles before coming to the SEC -- 4 years HC experience with a 28-21 record (1-2 in bowls)

What a bunch of behemoths these schools hired at the time!

Well-played Ohio Vol! Eventually, SOJ will submit. In the meantime, just keep hammering him. His anti-Kiffin diatribe is getting old fast.

[hatvol96]

Originally Posted by GAVol

Seriously, how do you write a diatribe like that and then mention Mike Leach in the same sentence as Butch Davis?



What has Leach proven other than he can create stat monster QB's that throw it too much and finish 3rd in the Big 12 South every year?

Cliff Kingsbury was a "monster QB?"
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[Ohio Vol]

I should also point out that Tuberville's prior experience was at Ole Miss, so I guess his HC experience before the SEC was 0.

[GAVol]

Fulmer, Tuberville, Richt, Johnson and Croom all had zero Division 1A head coaching experience when they came to the SEC.

[Volfan_TrappedN_KY]

These are the same writers that when we win start to have a successful season next year (8-9) wins , they will all praise Kiffin for the turnaround.