Kiffin Strikes Again

[Justin5 20]

Lane Kiffin May Be Allergic To The Truth

Lane Kiffin came to Tennessee to clean house and he's doing just that; bragging about how he's firing people left and right. Except he doesn't even really have the power to fire anybody.

Kiffin told Sports Illustrated this week that he has fired at least one person and "run off" several others as part of UT's new "get our act together" program. But as anyone who has worked in academics—like say, Tennessee athletic director Mike Hamilton—could tell you, firing someone at state-run institutions is not that simple.

It seems that Kiffin wanted to fire a football employee recently, but that he "reconsidered" the matter and it didn't happen. (Probably because he couldn't do it.) So why did Kiffin want that guy fired? He made him wait at an airport for 25 minutes.

"I came back and within five minutes I'd fired the guy who was in charge of the guy who'd been sent to pick me up," Kiffin said in the story. "Here's the point: We need to win. That's 25 minutes that Nick Saban and Urban Meyer had that I lost because somebody was late picking me up at the airport."

But that's ludicrous! (How can you not love this guy?) It's also the latest "exaggeration" that Kiffin has been caught in during his brief tenure, suggesting that no matter how much he improves the Volunteer football program, they're not going to be winning any truth-telling contests. For example:

"You can't count the number of people we've run off because they couldn't keep up, and I'm including secretaries," Kiffin said in the story. "They had to go because they weren't going to make it, and they knew it."

Yes, you can count them, because there have only been two. One secretary resigned, and another left to becomes Phil Fulmer's administrative assistant. Lane really needs to pace himself and save some of that crazy for the season.

http://deadspin.com/5153030/lane-kiffin-ma...ic-to-the-truth

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Everyday its something new for this guy. I think he is gotten in way over his head. I cant wait till the season starts to hear his post game comments and week leading up to game pressers. Glad this laughing stock isnt at Auburn with his mouth runnith over attitude.

[TitanTiger 22,251]

It's official: Lane Kiffin is the Chief A**Hole of the SEC.

I don't know how you fire someone over a silly issue like that in this economy. You reap what you sow, pal.

[TitanTiger 22,251]

Heh, nice added thought from Evan Woodberry to this story:

The story made me think back to the arrival of Curtis Luper and Trooper Taylor at the Auburn airport last month. We chatted with Luper for about 25 minutes while he waited on his ride.

Who eventually came to pick them up? None other than head coach Gene Chizik.

Gene Chizik greets Curtis Luper

at the airport on Jan. 4. Luper had been

waiting for about 25 minutes, but no staff

members were fired as a result of the delay.

[vatz22au 160]

Kiffin is .... a little odd.

[Shire5k 19]

This guy....man. He's one of a kind.

[merkuree 0]

I wonder how many of them would trade the Kiffster for Fulmer right about now?

[OldNewby 27]

[WarTim 3,565]

Lane Kiffin May Be Allergic To The Truth

Lane Kiffin came to Tennessee to clean house and he's doing just that; bragging about how he's firing people left and right. Except he doesn't even really have the power to fire anybody.

Kiffin told Sports Illustrated this week that he has fired at least one person and "run off" several others as part of UT's new "get our act together" program. But as anyone who has worked in academics—like say, Tennessee athletic director Mike Hamilton—could tell you, firing someone at state-run institutions is not that simple.

It seems that Kiffin wanted to fire a football employee recently, but that he "reconsidered" the matter and it didn't happen. (Probably because he couldn't do it.) So why did Kiffin want that guy fired? He made him wait at an airport for 25 minutes.

"I came back and within five minutes I'd fired the guy who was in charge of the guy who'd been sent to pick me up," Kiffin said in the story. "Here's the point: We need to win. That's 25 minutes that Nick Saban and Urban Meyer had that I lost because somebody was late picking me up at the airport."

But that's ludicrous! (How can you not love this guy?) It's also the latest "exaggeration" that Kiffin has been caught in during his brief tenure, suggesting that no matter how much he improves the Volunteer football program, they're not going to be winning any truth-telling contests. For example:

"You can't count the number of people we've run off because they couldn't keep up, and I'm including secretaries," Kiffin said in the story. "They had to go because they weren't going to make it, and they knew it."

Yes, you can count them, because there have only been two. One secretary resigned, and another left to becomes Phil Fulmer's administrative assistant. Lane really needs to pace himself and save some of that crazy for the season.

http://deadspin.com/5153030/lane-kiffin-ma...ic-to-the-truth

This guy's stupidity is almost at a saban level....almost.

[AU Cav 0]

E-trade baby is much too cool to be placed next to him Smarter too, apparently.

[quietfan 233]

Lane really needs to pace himself and save some of that crazy for the season.

http://deadspin.com/5153030/lane-kiffin-ma...ic-to-the-truth

That last line is the best laugh I've had in days. Gold, I tell you, comic gold!!

How 'bout a keyboard warning next time?...I just wasted a good sip of single malt!!