🏈 🔥 Hot Seat 2025 / Coaching Carousel: Alabama adds key personnel "behind the scenes."

[Justneedme81]

he gone.

 

[BamaFan334]

he gone.

I couldn't imagine it waiting that long to be announced if he were leaving. To me it feels like they have confidence in winning the Egg Bowl and want to make a statement about keeping Kiffin and driving interest in their program in a weekend where everyone is watching.

 

[UAgrad93]

I couldn't imagine it waiting that long to be announced if he were leaving. To me it feels like they have confidence in winning the Egg Bowl and want to make a statement about keeping Kiffin and driving interest in their program in a weekend where everyone is watching.

Tend to agree. Why wait to announce if he is leaving? If that was his decision, get it out now and jump to name a replacement, at least on the interim side. The announcement likely could be an extension and raise to keep him in Oxford for a much longer time.

 

[Justneedme81]

I couldn't imagine it waiting that long to be announced if he were leaving. To me it feels like they have confidence in winning the Egg Bowl and want to make a statement about keeping Kiffin and driving interest in their program in a weekend where everyone is watching.

In any other reality, maybe. But the world we live in these days... you just never know. After all, it's Kiffin.

You really do not want to announce or break news that he's leaving before Egg bowls. That's going to stir up drama with recruits and other schools will try and poach the players. So by saying there's going to be an announcement, it allows Kiffin to start reaching out to recruits and Ole Miss to prepare for back up plan... likely make Judge or Golding Interim coach.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Death. Taxes. And Lane Kiffin making things as difficult as possible because he simply can’t help himself.

Great coordinator. Good head coach. Terrible leader.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

I couldn't imagine it waiting that long to be announced if he were leaving. To me it feels like they have confidence in winning the Egg Bowl and want to make a statement about keeping Kiffin and driving interest in their program in a weekend where everyone is watching.

I don't know. If he's staying, why not announce it now to quell the raiding of their players and recruits?

 

[TerryP]

Death. Taxes. And Lane Kiffin making things as difficult as possible because he simply can’t help himself.

Great coordinator. Good head coach. Terrible leader.

The Many Lives of Lane Kiffin: Inside the Ole Miss coach's evolution. Two months ago, late September if I'm right, is when that premiered.

"Finalizing offers" and "finalizing deals." I've never really considered the difference in how that's phrased. It's interesting to me because it's reported LSU guarantees 25 mill in NIL monies ... which would have to be approved, individually? (I guess, theoretically, one NIL deal could cover an entire roster.)

 

[TerryP]

He ought to give Les a call.

 

[Krimson]

 

[Krimson]

Can we get him as a commissioner?

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Saban isn't wrong, but giving Kiffin a bit of a pass on how he’s handled it is a bit disingenuous. He’s literally gone out of his way to make it a distraction.

 

[mando]

Saban is wrong, but giving Kiffin a bit of a pass on how he’s handled it is a bit disingenuous. He’s literally gone out of his way to make it a distraction.

I think CNS is correct that the sysem is not in place to add reasonable structure around this but Kiffin is not innocent. He has full control and anything like this he turns it into a three ring circus. He has a chance to do something significant at Ole Miss (to Ole Miss standards) and this has the chance of robbing those players of that opportunity. They could still very well rally but Kiffin is not helping them do so in my opinion.

BTW these very things are what would keep me from ever wanting him at Bama.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

I think CNS is correct that the sysem is not in place to add reasonable structure around this but Kiffin is not innocent. He has full control and anything like this he turns it into a three ring circus. He has a chance to do something significant at Ole Miss (to Ole Miss standards) and this has the chance of robbing those players of that opportunity. They could still very well rally but Kiffin is not helping them do so in my opinion.

That was supposed to say, Saban, isn't wrong.

 

[musso]

Any able to admit they’ve ran through their mind a simulation of DeBoer losing to Auburn and leaving for Penn St, and then Kiffin pivoting and coming here??

 

[TerryP]

Kyle Whittingham?

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Any able to admit they’ve ran through their mind a simulation of DeBoer losing to Auburn and leaving for Penn St, and then Kiffin pivoting and coming here??

Yes, immediately. I posted it last Wednesday.

 

[musso]

Yes, immediately. I posted it last Wednesday.

If such a scenario unfolded, how would you feel? Obviously lots of “if’s” to juggle, but would you be okay with Kiffin coming here, after his resume at Ole Miss?

 

[Justneedme81]

If such a scenario unfolded, how would you feel? Obviously lots of “if’s” to juggle, but would you be okay with Kiffin coming here, after his resume at Ole Miss?

Why are we talking about this? Especially when its been said the rumors wasn't true?

 

[It Takes Eleven]

If such a scenario unfolded, how would you feel? Obviously lots of “if’s” to juggle, but would you be okay with Kiffin coming here, after his resume at Ole Miss?

I'd be okay with it, but if I had to pick someone right now I'd go get Cignetti. In my view, he's the closest thing to Saban out there in terms of temperament and drive. He's 64, so he's got a ten-year or less coaching window, but that's who I'd go get if I had to have someone today.

 

[rick4bama]

If such a scenario unfolded, how would you feel? Obviously lots of “if’s” to juggle, but would you be okay with Kiffin coming here, after his resume at Ole Miss?

After the way he did Saban when he got the Fla. Int coaching job!