New SI Article on Kiffin...great read

#78
#78
If Kiffin is gonna be like that to #14, then I totally believe in this guy. Also, when Lane frustrated Orgeron into coming into Tennessee, that was another great situation that makes me believe in this guy even more.
 
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#79
Gentleman Jack said:
Tidwell, I read the article and anyone can see that Ms. Carpenter is covering for coach Kiff. I really like him, I really do. I am not a Fulmerite or hater...I am just starting to worry a little bit about some of the stuff he is saying. It may be becuase of his inexperience, but he is beginning to worry me a bit.
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You and 5150 should get a little hair on your chest. This man's going at what about 150 mph for the next year or two to get this program back up to to the top and you 'worry' he couldn't fire a state employee? Guarantee you whoever that guy or gal is, is not doing logistics for CLK anymore so they might as well have been fired. In the Gov't they call it 'transferred'.
 
#80
#80
We have been making alot of excuses why Kiffin is saying all this stuff. But the more he talks the more he looks like he doesn't know what he is talking about. And that worries me. You can say stuff to get the fan base behind you without just making stuff up for interviews. If he keeps this up alot of these recruits he is going after will start to see that the guy just makes up stuff. Nobody wants to play for a bullshitter.

I am pulling for the guy. But the more I hear these comments the more I start to think he is not going to make it.
 
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#81
"I was in my 8 a.m. math class the second day we came back," says All-America safety Eric Berry. "I'm the only player in there. Afterward my classmates start coming up to me. 'Dude, did you see Kiffin?' He'd come to the rear door and poked his head in to make sure I was there. Before, the coaches would send the weight-room guys or graduate assistants to check. But this was the head coach.


I love this. It shows that Kiff knows that this is a school first and a football team second. It also shows that he's determined to make sure his players excel. That's an awesome move. God knows, we don't need any players on Academic suspension.
 
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#82
Vercingetorix said:
There's a noticeable absence of about three or four regular posters in this thread. Wonder why?
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You act as if this article somehow validates the hiring of Kiffin. It doesn't.

BTW, see pg. 5. Nobody is absence....why should they be? To hear that Kiffin is "coaching the coaches" is a joke. The man couldn't coach his way out of a wet paper bag. All this propaganda means nothing without factual proof that Kiffins way of doing things actually leads to positive results.
 
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Volingatorland said:
"I was in my 8 a.m. math class the second day we came back," says All-America safety Eric Berry. "I'm the only player in there. Afterward my classmates start coming up to me. 'Dude, did you see Kiffin?' He'd come to the rear door and poked his head in to make sure I was there. Before, the coaches would send the weight-room guys or graduate assistants to check. But this was the head coach.


I love this. It shows that Kiff knows that this is a school first and a football team second. It also shows that he's determined to make sure his players excel. That's an awesome move. God knows, we don't need any players on Academic suspension.
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Vols5150 said:
You act as if this article somehow validates the hiring of Kiffin. It doesn't.

BTW, see pg. 5. Nobody is absence....why should they be? To hear that Kiffin is "coaching the coaches" is a joke. The man couldn't coach his way out of a wet paper bag. All this propaganda means nothing without factual proof that Kiffins way of doing things actually leads to positive results.
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He's the greatest coach ever!!! You see, meainingless statements can work both ways when you don't have proof he will succeed or fail.
 
#85
#85
Lane just said on the radio he was pleased with workouts that guys are beginning "to pick each other up.".

Also said practices would be very physical...
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#86
#86
In heaven...I'm in heaven...CPF bless his heart is a Tennessee Vol...he's also a overfed coach in about 5 ways that got this program mediocre, lazy, and apethetic. Thats why Florida whipped our arse the last few years. I'm figurin on 6-6..the dissapointments won't be about results, but about details. But I'm hopin..and I think he will go this route...of makin this team the tough guy, that even if you win..it costs.
 
#91
#91
he might not have fired them, but could they be reassigned to something else? idk just saying. regardless u knw why i cld careless if he fired someone or not? for the first time in a long time im fired up ab fball. he's cocky, got some swagger. we cld get killed nxt yr by florida, but i think after the first yr when his system is in we will start seeing a contender. a team that will improve. fulmer gave me no confidence, i wanted to believe he cld turn it around but i really wanted him to go. we wld go into fl and bama games and be like well maybe we will win then 5 mins into the game we knw we don't have a chance.

kiffin will discipline these guys and get them where they need to be. u'll see improvements starting this year plain and simple. if i'm wrong i'll eat crow. but if i played fball he is the kind of guy i wld love to play for
 
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Vols5150 said:
Yet another individual that failed to actually read LK's resume.
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I guess I just missed the part of his resume that had a college head coaching record on it. When you're 0-0, you are neither excellent nor can anybody say he "can't coach his way out of a wet paper bag."
 
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#98
gainesvol82 said:
Even his moves that can be considered as "mistakes" have had positive effects. The only thing that I can see as harming UT were the comments about Pahokee.
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i think when all is said and done, that won't turn out to be as bad as it first seemed.

outside forces excluded, every move that he has made, every comment he has made, whether intentional or not, i believe has been done for one purpose.

to instill confidence. there simply cannot be any other thought process than instilling it in the team and the fanbase.

i think most are still pratctical enough, i hope, to understand that year one can't/wont' be the absolute measuring stick. but he can't have the team step on the feild in Tuscaloosa or Gainesville not believing they are worthy of competing and winnning those games.

the biggest message i've gotten out of all this, and i fully admit to having my oragne sunglasses on here, is that we are no longer "hoping" to win, or better yet, not playing not to lose.

as much as we as fans expect to win, this staff and Kiffin in particular didn't take this job with thoughts of hoping to be beat those teams.

they were hired to beat them. and they have to know they can before the team can.

and if that means doing and saying some things that ruffles some feathers elswhere, so be it. putting some addtional pressure, albeit not always the way to go, might be the fire needed for this team to get out there and work.

i still don't expect a miracle next season. but i expect to see improvement, intensity and playing/play calling/game planning to win...to be the aggressor; to be the team that is going to dictate pace and how the game wants to be played.

anyway.....that's my story and i'm sticking to it.
 
#99
#99
I guess a good percentage of people in this thread are subscribed to Sports Illustrated, and get the latest issues. I think I'll just look forward to reading the article on the link that was given :happy:
 
#100
#100
I just read it, and I must say I have a lot of faith in Lane Kiffin and his new coaching staff. I've never read too many articles like that on how hard a man can work to get the job done, if Kiffin says he gonna do something he isn't playing around.
 
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