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[24and7]

That's the job Kiffin really wants

 

[alabama mike]

Kiffin would be crazy to leave Ole Miss, he has it made in Oxford. Yes, I know money talks, a lot! He seems happier now than at any point in his coaching career as a head coach.

 

[mando]

Kiffin would be crazy to leave Ole Miss, he has it made in Oxford. Yes, I know money talks, a lot! He seems happier now than at any point in his coaching career as a head coach.

You know who yoiu are talking about.... he thinks different than most do. Not Mike Leach different but different. It does seem like he has matured so maybe he stays at OM.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

You know who yoiu are talking about.... he thinks different than most do. Not Mike Leach different but different. It does seem like he has matured so maybe he stays at OM.

His kids are all gathered there, and he's reunited with the pretty wife who is also happy to be around the kids. As has been mentioned, he's three years plus sober and no rumors that he's banging coeds, so maybe he can scrape along with the Ole Miss salary.

 

[24and7]

Kelly may be pulling a Nick Saban in reverse... He may become the next coach of Michigan State and leave LSU.

 

[OldPlayer]

So I saw something on google about Kiffin possibly being offered around $13.5 million a year for 6 years from Florida.

I haven’t seen it anywhere else and can’t seem to find the article from earlier.


It might not have even been an offer rather than wishful thinking by Florida folks.

Satire or fact?

Wishing. There has been no offer

 

[OldPlayer]

His kids are all gathered there, and he's reunited with the pretty wife who is also happy to be around the kids. As has been mentioned, he's three years plus sober and no rumors that he's banging coeds, so maybe he can scrape along with the Ole Miss salary.

He may be the highest paid person in Oxford, MS

 

[TerryP]

He may be the highest paid person in Oxford, MS

State employed, I'm sure.

There seems to be a disconnect in the meaning of "money" here. There's A LOT of big money around the Ole Miss program: perhaps more so than UA. If it comes to a group of boosters keeping Kiffin in Oxford, through money, it's a pretty even race. IF UF were to offer some figure in the 12-13 million range Ole Miss could, and likely would, match the offer.

Then there's the glaring difference in one specific category, "Football Related Activity." I'd bet we could find a more than 40 million dollar difference between the two programs.

 

[TerryP]

Another pretty big point I think a lot are missing about the Florida job. (I seriously doubt any coach who is eyeing that job has missed this.)

When Napier was hired at Florida there was almost a satirical tone to the coverage on how he was structuring / re-structuring the Florida football department. He added a lot of new departments and personnel. It was enough to catch the attention of some of the Florida, in-state, rivals to the point they started meme's about the number of staff members.

Those people, departments, and the frame work of all of it is still there today. Napier brought that structure with him after using in in Louisiana.

Here's where it gets a little funny with Kiffin's consideration.

Napier took the concept of that framework with him when he left Bama: the departments, organizational charts, etc. It was covered a few times early on in both of his last two stops: "it's his version of Saban's system." The one thing EVERY coach who has worked with Saban has valued the most? His organizational skills from the top to bottom.

So, assuming Lane were to take the job in Gainesville, he's be walking into something he's already intimately familiar with in "how" it operates.

 

[OldPlayer]

Another pretty big point I think a lot are missing about the Florida job. (I seriously doubt any coach who is eyeing that job has missed this.)

When Napier was hired at Florida there was almost a satirical tone to the coverage on how he was structuring / re-structuring the Florida football department. He added a lot of new departments and personnel. It was enough to catch the attention of some of the Florida, in-state, rivals to the point they started meme's about the number of staff members.

Those people, departments, and the frame work of all of it is still there today. Napier brought that structure with him after using in in Louisiana.

Here's where it gets a little funny with Kiffin's consideration.

Napier took the concept of that framework with him when he left Bama: the departments, organizational charts, etc. It was covered a few times early on in both of his last two stops: "it's his version of Saban's system." The one thing EVERY coach who has worked with Saban has valued the most? His organizational skills from the top to bottom.

So, assuming Lane were to take the job in Gainesville, he's be walking into something he's already intimately familiar with in "how" it operates.

There’s a reason Napier got fired. IF Kiffin was hired, I doubt he would keep what Napier built. It didn’t work. Why keep it?

 

[TerryP]

There’s a reason Napier got fired. IF Kiffin was hired, I doubt he would keep what Napier built. It didn’t work. Why keep it?

Because it has worked at Bama, and at Ole Miss, and at Louisiana. The football department needs a change on Saturday's.

Do you think the new coach is going to take the number of analyst back to where they were under Mullins? Or, keep that structure in place? Come on, man.

 

[OldPlayer]

Because it has worked at Bama, and at Ole Miss, and at Louisiana. The football department needs a change on Saturday's.

Do you think the new coach is going to take the number of analyst back to where they were under Mullins? Or, keep that structure in place? Come on, man.

I guarantee you that any coach wouldn’t keep the structure that Florida is using. It isn’t working. It will change somehow - major or minor. And I don’t think any of us know how similar or dissimilar the system at Florida is to Saban’s.

 

[TerryP]

I guarantee you that any coach wouldn’t keep the structure that Florida is using. It isn’t working. It will change somehow - major or minor. And I don’t think any of us know how similar or dissimilar the system at Florida is to Saban’s.

As stated earlier in the thread this infrastructure was covered quite extensively by the press when Napier was hired at Florida. it's a continuation of a series of stories that have covered more than one head coach: among them Lane.

Your guarantee flies against what many other successful coaches from this tree have been using. The counter point seems ... well, weird.

 

[rick4bama]

Kiffin would be crazy to leave Ole Miss, he has it made in Oxford. Yes, I know money talks, a lot! He seems happier now than at any point in his coaching career as a head coach.

You do know who you are talking about? Right?

 

[alabama mike]

You do know who you are talking about? Right?

Absolutely! IMO, he is really happy at Ole Miss and he does not have the pressure on him there as he would at UF. He can’t possiblily spend all he has and will make at OM.

 

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[UAgrad93]

I guarantee you that any coach wouldn’t keep the structure that Florida is using. It isn’t working. It will change somehow - major or minor. And I don’t think any of us know how similar or dissimilar the system at Florida is to Saban’s.

If the structure is the same in Ole Miss as it is in Florida, maybe it’s the people in those positions at UF that are why it isn’t working. New man is going to bring his own people and with the potential of it being Lane, shit! They will just take their name plates with them from Oxford.

 

[24and7]

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if I were him, I would mutually work something out and leave.. They wouldn't tell me how to run my team.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

I'd like to see Brian Kelly beat him with a crowbar.

 

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