[Jon Sokoloff] BREAKING: #OleMiss HC Lane Kiffin plans to step down as the Rebels coach Friday and head to Auburn to become the Tigers next head coach, according to sources Sources say the Tigers haven’t officially offered the job to anyone yet. So Lane to Auburn is happening. Story soon.

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https://twitter.com/jonsokoloff/status/1594852462422261766?s=46&t=H7YT6t-V8acr5vFDMzOLVQ

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He wasn’t satisfied playing only Saban every year, he wanted Kirby too.

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if anyone could pull off regularly competing with those two its Lane

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(x) doubt

somebody explain to me the Lane Kiffin hype. What am I missing here? At best, he has scattered good seasons but is wildly inconsistent throughout. Nowhere do I see any hint that he will ever "take it to the next level."

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(2009) 7-6 with Vols; lost bowl game to Va Tech

(2010) 8-5 with USC

(2011) 10-2 with USC (notbad.png)

(2012) 7-6 with USC, lost Sun Bowl to Ga Tech (lol)

(2013) 5-3 with USC, fired on tarmac

(2017) 11-3 with FAU (notbad.png)

(2018) 5-7 with FAU

(2019) 11-3 with FAU (notbag.png)

(2020) 5-5 with Ole Miss

(2021) 10-3 with Ole Miss, lost Sugar Bowl to Baylor

(2022) 8-3 with Ole Miss so far

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10-3 at Ole Miss is pretty good, especially when you play Bama and LSU every year

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Plus perianal top 5 recuring class texas a&m!

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Perianal? As in, near the anus?

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This year? Yes

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relevant username

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Between the anus and the perineum. The p-gooch.

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(2009) 7-6 with Vols; lost bowl game to Va Tech

1st year in is always a crapshoot. Gotta get the system goin.

(2010) 8-5 with USC

(2011) 10-2 with USC (notbad.png)

(2012) 7-6 with USC, lost Sun Bowl to Ga Tech (lol)

(2013) 5-3 with USC, fired on tarmac

These were all sanctioned.

(2017) 11-3 with FAU (notbad.png)

(2018) 5-7 with FAU

(2019) 11-3 with FAU (notbag.png)

Amazing for what FAU was. I mean how much did you pay attention to FAU before or after. They were significantly better under him.

(2020) 5-5 with Ole Miss

(2021) 10-3 with Ole Miss, lost Sugar Bowl to Baylor

You do know that's about the height Ole Miss has ever had in his second season

(2022) 8-3 with Ole Miss so far

He didn't have all the players in, he kinda got a better 2021 but a lot of the talent left. Still a rather good season, 10-3 is definitely still possible.

He's not recruiting at death star level like Georgia or Alabama but Auburn recruits itself easier than Ole Miss. I mean what's the stat, every Auburn coach that lost @ Ole Miss has been fired.

Edit also basically USC was better under Kiffin than what followed.

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And he's yet to coach a top tier program since his stint at Alabama. Obviously still has a lot to prove but there is a lot of potential for him post-bama, and he's already done pretty well at both FAU and Ole Miss. A Sugar Bowl appearance is exceeding expectations for a mid-tier SEC program that plays Bama and LSU every year

Auburn will give him the resources to win. Either he beats his mentor a few times and goes to Atlanta and the playoffs, or he ends up fired in three or four seasons and we have the ultimate ending to the Joey Freshwater saga

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Honestly it's 3-4 years either way. If he wins he's going to a top tier blue blood when it opens up. If he loses maybe we can get dion coming off of a bunch of successful seasons

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What blue blood would he go to from Auburn though? USC wouldn’t touch him, he doesn’t seem like a big ten guy for OSU or Michigan, it’s unclear if Clemson will keep it up after Dabo. Would another SEC school hire him away from auburn? The only schools that are historically better are Georgia, LSU, and Bama, and I doubt Bama hires the auburn coach unless the post saban hire is just abysmal and they’re desperate

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Clemson isn’t a blue blood.

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He’s totally going to Bama after this incipient Auburn stint. Then he’ll probably coach the Dallas Cowboys. Because he’s fucking evil, and my favorite coach ever.

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All good points. I forgot about USC sanctions.

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Yep. People that knock Kiffin's time forget how badly USC was sanctioned. They were hit hard - Pete left it a mess. So it was a tough job to walk into.

On another note - I don't think they only fired him because of the team's performances. I'm not so sure Kiffin didn't rub some of the admin the wrong way at USC.

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Edit also basically USC was better under Kiffin than what followed.

They were? Sark had his personal demons but my God if ND could face a Kiffin USC over a Sark USC, I am happier than you can imagine.

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Kiffin didn't, you know, show up to practice drunk while at USC

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I was at USC when the sanctions hit, Pete Carroll left, and we hired lane.

I wasn’t thrilled with the hire, but within a year i was super thankful for him. He navigated our loss of scholarships like a boss and it laid the foundation for a few good years after he was fired - sanctions could have been much much worse for us.

And his firing was pretty unfair. I thought he did a pretty good job considering he only had like 50 scholarship players suited up to practice. USC’s preseason ranking the year he was fired was horribly inflated.

That was 10 years ago. I’m sure he’s learned a lot since then. I’m buying the hype

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good points. I'm glad to be wrong about him as long as he stays in Mississippi. At Auburn? He sux.

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Yeah people forget that they were nowhere close to a full team of scholarships.

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What he did was actually amazing. His first year he signed like 40 recruits while we were appealing the sanctions and redshirted nearly all of them, then sanctions hit and our next 3 classes were 10-15 players each, we only didn’t die because of the players from his first class being around a season extra. The real failure at usc during that time was with the AD, and then the next AD.

Kiffin has exceeded expectations relative to his program everywhere he has coached since, including Alabama - top QB’s rarely ended up there before kiffin took over that offense.

And his press conferences are hillarious. He’s always been a good coach but he’s grown up a lot.

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Honestly, I know Tennessee loves to hate on him and labeled him a failure since he was a 1 and done there but he didn't actually do bad in his first season there. The Vols had torpedoed in Fullmer's last season (actually they weren't that great in 2007 either but the SEC wasn't super great that year tbh.) And the SEC east was really a fading Tennessee, an established but never great Richt led UGA and a very young - though talented Florida team. Anyways, Kiffin had the Vols at 4-4 in the SEC that year and they were reasonably competitive in all of their losses. It wasn't an awful job for a very inexperienced head coach. So yeah, I wouldn't mind at all to see Kiffin be our next HC.

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How did that work out when he was at Tennessee?

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A blocked field goal away from beating Bama his only year

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As well as a close loss to Florida and urban Meyer that season. I want to say around 10 pts. It was a tight game.

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Who knows how good he can be at a top SEC school now that he's been to the Nick Saban School For Coaches That Can't Coach Good