Is what Lane doing to Ole Miss worse than what he ever did to Tennessee?

[Delmar]

Way worse? he left Tennessee as a dumpster fire under NCAA investigation. They were forced to hire Derek Dooley due to the timing.

Ole Miss will make a solid hire and be just fine as a program. Kiffin also tried to steal all the recruits Tennessee had at the time as well.

Make no mistake. He’s going to take a lot of recruits and current Ole Miss players and is trying to take the coaching staff before they can coach the playoff game. And the timing is horrible right now too. Arkansas just had to take Ryan Silverfield from Memphis. What’s that tell you about the pool of available coaches?

 

[JMSqb11]

Way worse? he left Tennessee as a dumpster fire under NCAA investigation. They were forced to hire Derek Dooley due to the timing.

Ole Miss will make a solid hire and be just fine as a program. Kiffin also tried to steal all the recruits Tennessee had at the time as well.

No one and absolutely no one was forced to hire Derek Dooley. That was all because Hamilton preconditioned the hire having to keep Kiffin's assistants that didn't go to USC with him just so Hamilton didn't have pay their buyouts.

 

[Delmar]

lol at the posts after the Vandy loss saying “we should go get Lane Kiffin back.” Dude screwed Tennessee over, tried to poach players, and yet there people were yesterday saying we should get him back. Now he’s screwing Ole Miss even harder than he screwed us, out in the open, no shame about the matter. “I can fix him/her!” “He won’t do it again!” The mantra of fools.

This qualifies for post of the year. No question Lane is the sleaziest coach in the game and that’s saying something.

 

[Cartervol]

He was already a hated man will be more so now. I don’t like the fact he's going to be running around trying to poach players since he has nothing else to do..

 

[VolunteerHillbilly]

Using a medical analogy, Kiffin leaving was akin to pulling the plug and letting us crash on the operating table while leaving Coach O and Monte behind to harvest our useful organs. Ole Miss has a solid foundation and can use the modern portal and NIL, none of which was available to the 3 head coaches who succeeded CLK in Knoxville. I don't see it as a close comparison.

 

[Raebo]

Different sport, basketball, but reminds me of Michigan in 1989 when Frieder was their head coach but took another job about a week before the NCAA tourney.
After the 1988–89 season, Frieder accepted the head coach's job at Arizona State but wanted to remain at Michigan for the NCAA tournament. However, when Frieder told athletic director Bo Schembechler his intentions, Schembechler ordered him to leave immediately, telling him, "I don't want someone from Arizona State coaching the Michigan team. A Michiganman is going to coach Michigan”. Assistant Steve Fischer became the interim coach, Michigan won 6 consecutive games and the national championship.

 

[CDB]

“You can’t turn a ho into a housewife”- some beat writer from Ole Miss.

Very well stated.

Or another way of saying it is “you can’t turn Diego‘s mom into Joey‘s mom”

 

[njvols]

Welcome to the college landscape.
There's zero loyalty by most coaches, players or the programs. $$$$
Some programs have lost almost their entire roster to the portal.
Y'all having fun yet..

Let’s portal some OM defense players over to the good guys

 

[West Vol]

Way worse? he left Tennessee as a dumpster fire under NCAA investigation. They were forced to hire Derek Dooley due to the timing.

Ole Miss will make a solid hire and be just fine as a program. Kiffin also tried to steal all the recruits Tennessee had at the time as well.

Odds are very low on Ole Miss being fine.

As for UT, we had Cutcliffe or Sumlin ready to take the job.

 

[Voltopia]

“You can’t turn a ho into a housewife”- some beat writer from Ole Miss.

Very well stated.

If I were that writer I would come back with some giant headline like "TIGER, HOE!" or "HOE BOY!" Really double down on it. He's gonna be pissy and hate Ole Miss anyway so why dissemble? It isn't as if LSU doesn't know what it's bringing in. They just think they can buy more loyalty out of him than anyone else has so far.

 

[njvols]

Using a medical analogy, Kiffin leaving was akin to pulling the plug and letting us crash on the operating table while leaving Coach O and Monte behind to harvest our useful organs. Ole Miss has a solid foundation and can use the modern portal and NIL, none of which was available to the 3 head coaches who succeeded CLK in Knoxville. I don't see it as a close comparison.

None of the three succeeded!

 

[SayUWantAreVOLution]

If I were that writer I would come back with some giant headline like "TIGER, HOE!" Really double down on it. He's gonna be pissy and hate Ole Miss anyway so why dissemble? It isn't as if LSU doesn't know what it's bringing in. They just think they can buy more loyalty out of him than anyone else has so far.

Hoe that Tiger, hoe that Tiger......

 

[Volholic]

If ole miss has any players in the portal because of this, I hope we capitalize on it.

 

[VOLINVONORE]

A reason why I don't want to see him come back to Tennessee, as some folks have been suggesting.

He is still a person who is so self centered that he no respect for anyone other than himself. If he ever comes back to Tennessee in any capacity, I would drop all the connections I have with Tennessee, and become a Vanderbilt supporter. I would really hate to see happen , but I, in no way, allow myself to accept him in any phase of my life. He is worst than a 50 year old spoiled brat.

 

[RiverVol]

I lay all of this at the feet of the NCAA for not preventing the tampering of a current employed coach until the college season is over. If you fire a coach you should have to wait until the season is over to hire. Teams that have coaches hired away from them should be allowed to have a separate portal at the end of January to allow their new coach to recruit for his new team.

Top post material.

 

[vavolfan6]

What Lane is doing is not wrong at all. He wants to upgrade jobs and be at LSU. It isn't his fault that the football calendar is set the way it is.

If anything, he is trying to do right by the players and stay and coach amidst the fanbase hating him. If he just goes to LSU immediately, and doesn't coach Ole Miss, Ole Miss will be less likely to have success in the playoffs.

Ole Miss administration is just trying to spin the narrative becuase they were unable to keep Lane, the best coach they have ever had, and have to save their a** when Ole Miss turns back to being a mediocre program.

 

[Delmar]

What Lane is doing is not wrong at all. He wants to upgrade jobs and be at LSU. It isn't his fault that the football calendar is set the way it is.

If anything, he is trying to do right by the players and stay and coach amidst the fanbase hating him. If he just goes to LSU immediately, and doesn't coach Ole Miss, Ole Miss will be less likely to have success in the playoffs.

Ole Miss administration is just trying to spin the narrative becuase they were unable to keep Lane, the best coach they have ever had, and have to save their a** when Ole Miss turns back to being a mediocre program.

You’d best get ready for some incoming artillery because you are one of the very few that thinks that.

 

[vavolfan6]

You’d best get ready for some incoming artillery because you are one of the very few that thinks that.

That's becuase people take it too personally with Lane. He doesn't owe Ole Miss anything. He has done them a favor by leaving the program in far better shape than he received it.

Insert any coach into Lane's position, and what do you expect? There is a reason he has been projected to LSU or Florida. It's becuase they are better jobs.

 

[molsen81]

Lane doesn’t care what you think and I wouldn’t either. He’s getting $12 million per year. Hahaha.

 

[West Vol]

Odds are very low on Ole Miss being fine.

Pete Golding. Hilarious.

 

[GetEmVols]

Same ole Kiffin. Tiger doesn’t change his stripes.

I see what you did there

 

[LittleVol]

So what do you want him to do
1) Abandon Ole Miss st their most crucial time?

2) Leave LSU hanging in the wind until he's done with Ole Miss?

They're offering 100 million dollars.

 

[volfeeva]

Kiffin is and always has been focused on himself and himself only. Idk about being worse. Timing was terrible for Tennessee; Ole Miss probably is in a much better position to make a good hire. Of course he is going to a rival so there’s that.

I agree with that Lane is /has always been about himself, but how can you say Miss is in a much better position to make a good hire when there are 12 schools also looking for a coach including better programs like Penn St /Florida. I see Miss scrambling for a coach with even a decent resume

 

[VOLINVONORE]

That's becuase people take it too personally with Lane. He doesn't owe Ole Miss anything. He has done them a favor by leaving the program in far better shape than he received it.

Insert any coach into Lane's position, and what do you expect? There is a reason he has been projected to LSU or Florida. It's becuase they are better jobs.

Lane continues to show his ass and demonstrate that he doesn’t have any respect for his profession, team, coaches or his assistant coaches.

 

[Delmar]

That's becuase people take it too personally with Lane. He doesn't owe Ole Miss anything. He has done them a favor by leaving the program in far better shape than he received it.

Insert any coach into Lane's position, and what do you expect? There is a reason he has been projected to LSU or Florida. It's becuase they are better jobs.

Ole Miss won’t be in better shape when half the team and recruits leave and they are now stuck with an unproven DC as head coach due to Lane leaving them high and dry at the worst possible time. And right before their first playoff appearance no less.

There are right and wrong ways to handle things in life. So far Lane has handled two changes poorly and was fired from the Raiders for being, as Al Davis put it, a liar. But ethics seems to be lost on many folks these days so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised at anything.