Alabama needs an offensive coordinator and Lane Kiffin’s name is getting thrown around after he visited the Crimson Tide last month. Nick Saban runs a pro-style offense so in that sense the speculation is logical.
Kiffin’s hiring would probably send Alabama fans into orbit. But then maybe that is something Saban would enjoy.
UPDATED: Kiffin will interview with Alabama this week according to CBS Sports.com
Where’s the problem? Cowards listen to the mob, true leaders don’t and I’d say as ‘cold’ as he can be Saban is a leader.
Many others here have noted that Kiffin’s skill was as a coordinator – his problem(and ours) was assuming he could also be a head coach.
One thing for sure this’ll send Spurrier through the roof and, pray tell, what’s wrong with that?
Might be fun to just invest in a few new visors and watch Spurrier stomp on them. I think its a great fit and it is kinda exciting.
I think the rabid fans at Tennessee will have a lot of fun with it to.
This will send the rah rahs into orbit.
Hopefully, they take you with them. Lulz. Bye, Felicia.
I don’t think that’s an actual person. gotroy22 is just an autoreply program that says the same whiny stuff.
Maybe him and HeySuxx are related?
Same hospice facility, maybe? Same mental hospital as Bucket?
That ain’t his wife.
It’s AJ Mcarron’s girl
We might as well rename this blog to “Inside Alabama” should Kiffin get the OC job there.
I can see it now: Alabama’s winning season will be compared to USC’s season.
Inside Alabama and everything going on with the coaches that weren’t hired by USC because “they weren’t from the South Bay.”
of course Helen still believes Sark will lead USC to three straight NC titles…
Professor, the symbols continue to appear mysteriously each morning and have now reached the south end of Orchard Avenue. Will they turn east or west, or overleap Jefferson and continue south across the campus?
After consulting the ethnology collection in Doheny Library, it appears that these Polynesian symbols include (in various combinations): the Turtle (eternity), the Ocean (death/afterlife), Shark’s Teeth (power/ferocity), the Lizard (gods/the hidden world), and Spearheads (warriors). Perhaps the Fire symbol is meant to be taken literally. So mystical and evocative, they remind me of the Celtic concept of the Otherworld — but what connection could there be between, say, Samoans and leprechauns?
To others on this blog: your concept of a “cadre of dwarves” (Disney reinterpreted by Fidel Castro? very post-colonial!) using these symbols to communicate with each other may well prove to be true. As for someone’s suggestion of a sasquatch, I do not mean to disparage legitimate courageous inquiry into cryptozoological matters, but these symbols appear two feet off the ground; is this yeti painting with his feet? “My Left Bigfoot”?
The symbolism you talk about could be an expression of anger by a perhaps small cadre of dwarfish people, perhaps led by mr. bucket himself. We do know he will go to any lengths to attract attention. This is in no way meant to be humorous.
The folowing is my take on it.
From Carey McWilliams’ Southern California Country, quoted in Pershing Square, Downtown L.A.
“My feeling about this weirdly inflated village in which I had come to make my home…suddenly changed after I had lived in Los Angeles for seven long years of exile. I have never been able to discover any apparent reason for this swift and startling conversion, but I do associate it with a particular occasion…an awful trunk-murder had just been committed; Aimee Semple McPherson had once again stood the town on its ear by some spectacular caper; a University of Southern California football star had been caught robbing a bank; a love-mart had been discovered in the Los Feliz Hills;…Then it suddenly occurred to me that, in all the world, there neither was nor would ever be another place like this City of the Angels. Here the American people were erupting, like lava from a volcano; here, indeed, was the place for me – a ringside seat at the circus.”
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Kiffin possibly getting a new job at another premier football program, yet AD Gargamel still spews out the same nonsense for peanuts. I would think that AD Gargamel would change his tune, since he’s not benefiting from his own negativity.
Scottie, where are you? I am waiting for your blog post about James Franklin to PSU.
In my mind, Carroll always seemed to be more hands off in terms of what his coaches did. I couldn’t see him being a micromanager at all. Saban could be a micromanager – or, at least, Saban has a system and any deviation will not be tolerated or allowed. Kiffin may do well in this sort of program. I don’t think Kiffin is mature enough or reflective enough to change his own behavior. He needs a strong figure outside of himself.
Plus, Saban then gets a great recruiter to scoop up kids from California.
I can’t stop laughing !!!!!!
Saban and Kiffin have the same agent. It’s a manufactured PR stunt in hopes that Kiffin re-gains credibility as an offensive “genius”, IMO.
Someone else problem now.. Dont care!
Great recruiter, but its not like Bama needs the help, and he could learn a lot from Saban about being a leader of men.
Thats all..
Will he call his own plays?
Former UCla coach karl Dorall interviewing with the Giants is much funnier then this one .
Alabama writer says former Bruin HC RN is a possibility for OC at UA.
“Outside shot” Clay Helton.
Most of you on here do not seem to get Alabama and what Nick Saban is and is about. How many of you are confident in Saban as a coach?…How many of you think it is your place to second guess a guy who has proved he knows what he is doing? And lastly, do you think he really cares what we think about this? THis is a business to him…what is in dire need of change about our program Lane brings to the table. I hated him just as much as the rest of the world..but this is not a popularity contest and I believe in our Coach and the University and how many people have EVER seen Saban let a coach, a player, or anyone get out of line. HE will be just like the rest of the staff…HE will speak when he is needed and he will not do the loose lips thing. Trust me…people transcend around him and if you buy into what he says …he is very smart….and think he is quite capable over any of us to make the hiring decision for the OC.