🏈 Is Kiffin Really A Genius?

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

Soooooo we are pretty much in control of the game. Tennessee shows no real threat during the game. We know that run game is doing pretty good......and if need be we can go back to it because it hasn't been stopped.

Hey here's a good idea.....let's work on this passing game.....with real in game action. You know just in case we get in a game where someone stops the run and we have to pass.

Or just be one dimensional. Just my view of it....I dunno ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This.

 

[bamachine]

He is a genius at trolling...

 

[JoshB]

God, we have some dumb fans.

 

[RoeTied]

We should have went for the 1k rushing yards.

 

[EasyTider]

 

[rick4bama]

He is a genius at trolling...

It to me look like he was throwing to the UT fan and not the Bama Fan.

 

[planomateo]

This showed up on my timeline and I thought about this thread. Worth noting we beat a broken ass Tennessee team, Texas A&M will be a better test.

 

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

God, we have some dumb fans.

Yup.

 

[RollllTide!]

Yup.

Not sure if they are dumb or just too impatient. There are a lot of younger fans that can't remember the Mike years, or the times after the Bear. It is easy to expect a winning program when you have a winning program, but I remember Saban's first speech at the Airport in T'town when he said he would recruit a Big and Fast team. He did it and it only took a couple of years to get a team that could compete on any level. It think the secret is out, but he is still way ahead. I predicted a 60 to 6 game against TinRC and only missed it by 10 points on the top number. This is the best team we have seen in modern times, and it is at a high cost of recruiting players that quit when Jalen was picked as the QB.

Please give the ones you say are dumb a little leeway until they catch up with the rest of us that had to wait 15 years for Saban to arrive.

 

[planomateo]

Please give the ones you say are dumb a little leeway until they catch up with the rest of us that had to wait 15 years for Saban to arrive.

Well said!

 

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

Well said!

+1

 

[JoshB]

Yep lets give people that say 'its not enough' when the O rushes for 400+ yards, more time... okay... or how about football geniuses that say "our receivers are so overrated, Tennessee's are much better" or some dumbass crap like that?

 

[planomateo]

Yep lets give people that say 'its not enough' when the O rushes for 400+ yards, more time... okay... or how about football geniuses that say "our receivers are so overrated, Tennessee's are much better" or some dumbass crap like that?

Or run others off by being an asshole...

I don't agree with lots of thinking, doesn't mean I need to express it. It's taken me 42 years to learn this btw. You'll get there eventually

 

[JoshB]

Or run others off by being an asshole...

I don't agree with lots of thinking, doesn't mean I need to express it. It's taken me 42 years to learn this btw. You'll get there eventually

Not running anyone off, but there is no rule against being an asshole sooooo... *shrug*

It wouldn't be so bad if this shit didn't continuously happen. Everyone is entitled to a dumb opinion but when it gets to the point of 400+ yards rushing and 40 point blow outs "not being enough" its gotten beyond ridiculous.

 

[DV Flak]

ha-ha

 

[EdfromT'town]

I did want them to hang 50 on the Vols though--was hoping Kiffin would go for 2 with our last score.

 

[tide92]

Soooooo we are pretty much in control of the game. Tennessee shows no real threat during the game. We know that run game is doing pretty good......and if need be we can go back to it because it hasn't been stopped.

Hey here's a good idea.....let's work on this passing game.....with real in game action. You know just in case we get in a game where someone stops the run and we have to pass.

Or just be one dimensional. Just my view of it....I dunno ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I wouldn't call being up 14 pts. in the 2nd qtr. on a team known for comebacks being in control with no real threat. This is what I'm talking about. Sure we can look back now and say we got over 400 yards and won by 31, but at that point it wasn't close to being over.

 

[JoshB]

I wouldn't call being up 14 pts. in the 2nd qtr. on a team known for comebacks being in control with no real threat. This is what I'm talking about. Sure we can look back now and say we got over 400 yards and won by 31, but at that point it wasn't close to being over.

Really? Because I didn't see their offense move the ball whatsoever in that game. When you do not know what you are talking about, just dont.

Just an FYI Alabama's defense and special teams outscored Tennessee's entire team... boy that being up by 14 sure wasn't secure was it?

 

[Alabama17Tide]

CECIL HURT: Can't argue with numbers
Cecil Hurt | Sports Editor

Alabama offensive coordinator Lane Kiffin sends in Alabama running back Bo Scarbrough (9) against Tennessee during the Crimson Tide's dominating 49-10 win Saturday, October 15, 2016 at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Staff Photo/Gary Cosby Jr.
Statistics aren't an argument. At best, statistics are tools in an argument if an argument is necessary. If the numbers are accurate, they can be a part of the story, but they are never the whole story in something as complex as life – or football.

At the end of Alabama's 49-10 rout of Tennessee on Saturday, I went on social media and posted a fact. A statistic. It noted that in two games in 2016, Lane Kiffin, the Alabama offensive coordinator, had been on the opposite sideline from his two previous college employers, Tennessee and Southern Cal. The cumulative score in those two games? 110-16.

There was nothing absolute or derogatory to the schools referred to in that statement. It was just a true snippet, a fact, a small piece of data that referred, first, to a quirk of schedule that put Alabama against those two teams in a single half-season and, second, to the offensive success that Alabama has had, setting a record-setting scoring pace with a true freshman quarterback.

Many people found the statistic interesting. It was retweeted several hundred times from my Twitter timeline. Also, the people who run the Twitter account at ESPN SportsCenter, a source for millions of sports fans, picked up that stat, used it themselves and graciously gave me credit for it. And, in the process, they reminded me what a hot button the name "Lane Kiffin" still is.

The vast majority of the responses fit into one of two categories, equally split between the unprintable obscene group and another group with no use for synecdoche (using a part of something to refer to the hole). Most of those were along the lines of "He's not Saban!" or "He's not one of those players!" or, in a related vein, "Anyone could do that with those players!" (It is a given for many of Alabama's rival fan bases that the Crimson Tide has unmatched and unlimited talent, even though those same fan bases spend a part of every February arguing that Alabama's recruiting classes are "overrated.") There was also a tiny segment of comments – "He still wears pleated pants" was the best – that were slightly off the point, if undeniably true.

Yes, I realize that Kiffin is not Alabama's head coach or its quarterback or even its defensive coordinator. He has very little to do with the "16" in the statistic, which is more of a reflection of good work by Jeremy Pruitt's defense. But, as offensive coordinator, play-caller and tutor of a steadily-improving Jalen Hurts, Kiffin does deserve a hat-tip for that 101 on the "points scored" side of the ledger. In the press box in Knoxville, there were many media members from national outlets who were starting to discuss Hurts as a possible Heisman Trophy candidate. That's probably more for future reference than a viable 2016 possibility, but it doesn't sound utterly outrageous.

There was one other thing: If the situation were reversed and Alabama had been blown out in those two games, there would have been plenty of Kiffin abuse dished out from his critics. The fact is, when someone pays for an airplane to haul a banner with a sophomoric Kiffin insult on it around Neyland Stadium, he is anything but forgotten by his ex-teams.

What happened at other jobs in the past happened. Everyone is entitled to their opinion about that. You can like him or not, or ignore the likelihood that he'll get another head coaching shot soon. But to say that he hasn't contributed in major ways to the Alabama offense in his tenure here, or to ignore another statistic – Alabama is 4-0 against those teams since he arrived – is frustration or denial, or both.
TideSports.com - CECIL HURT: Can't argue with numbers

 

[rick4bama]

Not sure if they are dumb or just too impatient. There are a lot of younger fans that can't remember the Mike years, or the times after the Bear. It is easy to expect a winning program when you have a winning program, but I remember Saban's first speech at the Airport in T'town when he said he would recruit a Big and Fast team. He did it and it only took a couple of years to get a team that could compete on any level. It think the secret is out, but he is still way ahead. I predicted a 60 to 6 game against TinRC and only missed it by 10 points on the top number. This is the best team we have seen in modern times, and it is at a high cost of recruiting players that quit when Jalen was picked as the QB.

Please give the ones you say are dumb a little leeway until they catch up with the rest of us that had to wait 15 years for Saban to arrive.

Mike years!! What about Curry years!! :argh: