🏈 Lane Kiffin officially the new OC @ Alabama

Old Timer from TX said:
I am super shocked. Especially considering that the vast majority of Alabama fans were deriding the choice of Petrino back to Louisville. Kiffen's actions at his last couple stops haven't been exactly honorable. I thought integrity meant something to your program.
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Like I called you out in the other thread. You suck at trolling. Now go back to your own good ole boy forum little man.
 
RollTideRandy said:
Anyone think that Kiffen is looking at Saban as the guy who can teach him to be a more successful head coach?
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Yes. It was mentioned weeks ago (before he ever visited), and seemed odd to me, that Kiffin basically idolized Saban in terms of his coaching and how he does things. I'm pretty sure this is more about him re-vitalizing his career and starting over in a way, than it is about just taking a job at Alabama and making some dough.

I'll be completely honest though, that I didn't think he'd be hired. I figured it would be Groh or someone else.
 
Old Timer from TX said:
I am super shocked. Especially considering that the vast majority of Alabama fans were deriding the choice of Petrino back to Louisville. Kiffen's actions at his last couple stops haven't been exactly honorable. I thought integrity meant something to your program.
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You bring up the word integrity? Sorry but that word coming from a program that said it can buy anyone at anytime? Lane got fired from USC for not meeting their expectations as a head coach. Maybe he jumped at the chance before he was ready. Maybe he made a bad choice, however I will bet my heart and soul that he was making those choices for his family. He probably was thinking that he had it figured out. Once you get fired from a job it makes you have a talk with the man in the mirror. This job is nothing but an opportunity for him to make things right. If he succeeds then it is a win win for BAMA. Saban will make sure that the process works for him just like it works for the team. In other words Kiffin will add to the team or Saban will be ruthless about getting rid of him. I welcome him to the process.
 
I've read through some of this thread and am kind of surprised at the holier than thou attitude some of you have. This is football, not church. Football is played mostly by nasty men with nasty attitudes and are coached by aggressive men with quick tempers. Nothing concerning football is supposed to appeal to the intelligentsia and the upper classes who are so quick to critique. It's a blue collar game. Even though the American game was indeed created by students at Rutgers, Princeton, Columbia, Yale, etc... they were vicious. Deaths were as common as block in the back penalties on kickoffs are today.

Some here, and on other boards, insist that they absolutely detest Kiffin as an actual human being. Judging his worth, his actual worth as a person, based on a few recruiting violations? My goodness, I guess some of you would spit right in Coach Bryant's face and tell him he didn't deserve to breathe the same air as you do. Bryant was no angel. None of the rough and ready old-time coaches, playing in an era where you did what you had to do to get to the next level, were angels.

For goodness sakes, Bryant broke 387 recruiting rules that I know of while at A&M and put them on probation and then left, sound familiar? What do you honestly think of him and his heavy alcohol usage and known womanizing? Just a different era and a different time and it's all okay?

Listen, I think some of you should step down off the moral high horse and just relax. Kiffin is no monster and people are people and we all have our faults.
 
CtrlAltDel said:
I've read through some of this thread and am kind of surprised at the holier than thou attitude some of you have. This is football, not church. Football is played mostly by nasty men with nasty attitudes and are coached by aggressive men with quick tempers. Nothing concerning football is supposed to appeal to the intelligentsia and the upper classes who are so quick to critique. It's a blue collar game. Even though the American game was indeed created by students at Rutgers, Princeton, Columbia, Yale, etc... they were vicious. Deaths were as common as block in the back penalties on kickoffs are today.

Some here, and on other boards, insist that they absolutely detest Kiffin as an actual human being. Judging his worth, his actual worth as a person, based on a few recruiting violations? My goodness, I guess some of you would spit right in Coach Bryant's face and tell him he didn't deserve to breathe the same air as you do. Bryant was no angel. None of the rough and ready old-time coaches, playing in an era where you did what you had to do to get to the next level, were angels.

For goodness sakes, Bryant broke 387 recruiting rules that I know of while at A&M and put them on probation and then left, sound familiar? What do you honestly think of him and his heavy alcohol usage and known womanizing? Just a different era and a different time and it's all okay?

Listen, I think some of you should step down off the moral high horse and just relax. Kiffin is no monster and people are people and we all have our faults.
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Kind of think you are swatting a fly with a sledgehammer but that's your call. The only thing I can glean from this rant is there is a disconnect as to how football was conducted in the 70's and now. Acting like Coach Bryant in 2014 will get your program the death penalty.
 
bamafan4ever said:
Kind of think you are swatting a fly with a sledgehammer but that's your call. The only thing I can glean from this rant is there is a disconnect as to how football was conducted in the 70's and now. Acting like Coach Bryant in 2014 will get your program the death penalty.
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Correct, it would get any program the death penalty. But, my point was do/did any of you detest Coach Bryant as a living, breathing organism as some of you seem to feel about Kiffin? Have you ever met Lane Kiffin or spent any time with him?

If you were alive at the time, I wasn't, how did you feel about that scoundrel and cheat that Bryant was known as coming home to coach Bama? Or, was he really thought of that way back in those times? Were people as spiritually upright and haughty as we all seem today in our judgments?

Is a four paragraph response, with one being a line and half long, really considered a rant here?
 

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