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Lane Kiffin is realistic (info).

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JHallCanes said:
I feel the exact same way

There are no real slam dunk 100% hires we can make and really…why would there be?

I feel strongly they would both be better hires than Richt and for his faults Richt still had us on the cusp of building back even if Clemson was still significantly ahead of us at the time
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I was very excited by the CMR hire... but no BS, I think we might have dodged a bullet when he retired. I wasn't seeing it. Just IMO.
 
Cryptical Envelopment said:
I was very excited by the CMR hire... but no BS, I think we might have dodged a bullet when he retired. I wasn't seeing it. Just IMO.
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Seems like the medical thing was legit. It was like by the end something was just “off” which is sad

**** near every good thing we’ve had happen in 15 years was because of him

Golden beat bad OSU and UiF teams but still beat them
 
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Just FYI, all the successful canes coaches that won natties only stayed a few years and went to another job…Miami has always been like that, and that’s fine. If we start putting more money into football and gasp: not losing every single bowl game, this program will gain respectability again and will have no program getting quality coaches. If Kiffin wins a natty or makes this team a ACC title contender who would honestly say no to that?
 
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Cribby said:
I love this guy. No bs and just a real dude in a time where everyone is fake. He’s out there but whatever.
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Agreed, the pirate is a beast and a better offensive mind than Kiffin as well… he’s a real
One… we would just need to shell out some serious cash for a DC because the pirate doesn’t believe in defense 😂
 
Cribby said:
Anyone that knows him would tell you he’d be out of that **** hole before the sun set to come here. That’s why I posted with confidence other day “ he’d come if we wanted him”.
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With a lot of caveats and so on, or do you think it would be a fairly quick operation if we extended an invite?
 
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smack99 said:
For people that want Lane, why was he a failure at USC and UT?
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UT was only one year and he actually improved the W/L record by 2 wins over his predecessor (Fulmer was 5-7, Kiffin got them to 7-5). So you really have to stretch to call a 2 win improvement a failure.

USC is the one worth looking at. The NCAA hit USC with sanctions in June 2010 due to things Pete Carroll did. Kiffin took over a program that had just been banned from post season play for 2 years and docked 30 scholarships over a 3 year span. In 2011, USC went 10-2 with only 51 scholarship players. The lack of scholarships eventually caught up in 2012, they had 62 scholarship players and only finished 7-6. Should he have done better with a roster that was less than 3/4 full? I suppose so. And then 2013, he got fired 5 games into the season when they were 3-2. Ed O took over and that team ended up 10-4. So it seems he was still able to put together a good team despite the ncaa sanctions. Would Kiffin have been able to get that team to 10 wins if he'd been able to finish the season? Who knows.

Given he actually improved the Tennessee team and had a double digit win season in the middle of severe NCAA sanctions and 60% of a full roster, I think the perception that he was a massive failure is greatly exaggerated.
 
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