I don't want to restart old pointless discussions , but honestly, Kiffin was just a USC guy at that time. His vision of following in Pete Carroll's footsteps overpowered his judgement and he jumped at it. He was young for a head coach ; probably too young , and did what he thought he needed to do . I doubt it leveled our team to the extent that it did our fanbase. Yeh they were a bit stunned and left wandering , but adapting to change is the nature of sports . Sending the dude death threats and burning sh** over a coach that got canned from his previous job kind of shows our idiocy. It was our university's job to find a suitable replacement and for whatever reasons, they failed. Fast forward nearly 10 years later , Kiffin has shown his knowledge and skill as a coordinator and seems to have his team in good shape. So it's safe to say , while he still has a knack for social media silliness, he has matured for the most part and would be a good coach at any level withing the CFB ranks . The point of this long ramble is , people need to get over the butthurt Kiffin left. I'm glad we ended up where we are compared to where we could have gone, but I'd still take Kiffin in a hearbeat over most of the coaches we were considering.
