Bring Back Kiffin

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#26
Kiffin scares me but I am starting to feel desperate. I will say I heard from a reliable source he was good to former players. Better than Dooley or Jones.
 
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At this point I would take bozo, big bird, Kermit the frog or a side of bacon. Any of these would be better.
 
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Kiffin is probably the only head coach in the country with experience as a HC (notice I didn't say success, I said experience) that would consider taking the TN job. Hard to imagine anyone wanting to sign up for this dumpster fire at this point.
 
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VolforFootball said:
Kiffin is probably the only head coach in the country with experience as a HC (notice I didn't say success, I said experience) that would consider taking the TN job. Hard to imagine anyone wanting to sign up for this dumpster fire at this point.
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WE could have had Les freaking Miles if Currie had just answered his calls!
 
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vols40 said:
Thanks that took courage. Why don't we bring back one of the people responsible for the condition we are currently in.
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It has been 10 years....it does not take anyone 10 years to recover from a single guy leaving after one year as coach.

The reason we are in the condition we are currently in is that we have the same set of boosters pushing the same bad decisions the last 10 years. Don't give Kiffin that much power into our current situation.
 
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willinhf said:
It has been 10 years....it does not take anyone 10 years to recover from a single guy leaving after one year as coach.

The reason we are in the condition we are currently in is that we have the same set of boosters pushing the same bad decisions the last 10 years. Don't give Kiffin that much power into our current situation.
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Don't disagree with your assessment and that he was a decent coach here. But he left in the middle of the night 2 weeks out from signing day. I can't get past that.
 
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willinhf said:
It has been 10 years....it does not take anyone 10 years to recover from a single guy leaving after one year as coach.

The reason we are in the condition we are currently in is that we have the same set of boosters pushing the same bad decisions the last 10 years. Don't give Kiffin that much power into our current situation.
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We are in this position because Kiffin left in the middle of night three weeks before national signing day with half of our staff. This led to a mad scramble to land any coach at all which is how we got Dooley. Dooley put us right into mediocrity, which led to us again being desperate in a time when there weren't many options so we got Butch Jones. He kept us in mediocrity too.

Getting Pruitt instead of any number of the proven coaches we could have had is because of Currie and his sneaky maneuverings behind the scenes to give us Schiano instead of the number of major coaches that actually WERE interested in the job.

You're right, we can't lay everything at Kiffin's feet. But we damn well can lay a lot of it.
 
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vols40 said:
Don't disagree with your assessment and that he was a decent coach here. But he left in the middle of the night 2 weeks out from signing day. I can't get past that.
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And I would be able to get past that since he was leaving for his "dream job"....but calling our recruits to not go to class....that pissed me off.
 
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roymcavoy83 said:
Kiffin made it fun to watch. He took the Sullins twins - two dudes that were walk ons and 260 lbs, plugged them in the O-line and made them serviceable. He drastically improved Crompton.

If he can make us competitive, bring him back.
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You're dealing with a loose cannon.
 
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willinhf said:
And I would be able to get past that since he was leaving for his "dream job"....but calling our recruits to not go to class....that pissed me off.
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I would have been reluctantly ok had he waited until after signing day. Not sure that would've been possible. It was just sorry and dirty
 
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willinhf said:
And I would be able to get past that since he was leaving for his "dream job"....but calling our recruits to not go to class....that pissed me off.
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Kiffin is and always has been, a punk.

His success is very limited and never outweighs the controversies off the field.

I mean, he went 7-6 here! And people are acting like we played for a Natty before he left. He even had the gall to say he "left us in better shape then he found us"

Yeah, leaving like he did left us in far worse shape.
 
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why I wouldn't mind Kiffin coming back:
- we could get him cheap
- we could get him with a crazy contract where he couldn't leave again without penalty
- he regrets leaving and wants to be here again
- he had his team playing hard for him and we almost beat bama that year
 
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Matt2496 said:
Let the prodigal son return.
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Kiffin is no "son" of Tennessee. HE does not nor has he ever cared about Tennessee.

My father spoke to the people who moved the stuff out of his house when he left. Said there was not a single orange thing in his house. Our Head coach didn't even own an orange shirt.
 
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We've been through this before just pay the money get a proven guy like Bama did and turn the program around. Get rid of all these money grabbing no count coaches and let's get back to at least going to a Bowl game.
 
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