An oral history of Lane Kiffin's firing on the tarmac 10 years ago - ESPN

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I love these kinds of formats for articles, and I think this was well done and interesting.

For as long as there's been college football, coaches have been getting fired. The annual discussions about who's on the hot seat is as much a part of the game as a depth chart. But in the history of the sport -- perhaps the history of employment -- only one man's termination is universally recalled with just a single word: "Tarmac."

It's been 10 years since Lane Kiffin was fired as USC's coach, supposedly on the tarmac at LAX. The truth of what happened in the early-morning hours of Sept. 29, 2013, is, like so many things with Kiffin, a bit more complicated.

ESPN spoke to nearly two dozen people who witnessed Kiffin's tenure at USC, as well as his unlikely second act as one of college football's most colorful characters and brilliant offensive minds, in an effort to find out what really happened that night and how it changed the rest of his career.

Worth the read at https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/38496935/usc-lane-kiffin-fired-tarmac-10-years-ago-oral-history