Lane Kiffin Under Fire Again

Alabama fans are upset the Crimson Tide did not run more tonight in its loss to Ohio State. The stat that sticks out is Alabama going 2 for 13 on third-down. That certainly rings a bell from the USC era.

38 thoughts on “Lane Kiffin Under Fire Again

  1. Hey wolf, play calling is only as good as the execution, we all know how that turned out

    It’s truly pathetic how much you struggle with this stuff

    • Kiffin called this game like he called USC games — force feed the star players (i.e Cooper), recognize one defensive vulnerability from film and run that play over and over and over, adjustments be damned (middle screen to Travis Henry). The man has absolutely no feel or flow as to how the game is being played.

  2. I’ll say this. Kiffin actually called a decent game. Ohio States dline brought it all game and Blake Simms was exposed for what he really is. An average, athletic qb with a weak arm. He made a lot bad decisions in throwing situations and could barely reach the ball to his receivers. One more issue nobody wants to talk about is that Saban coaches the dbacks and they were getting beat all game and didn’t tackle. Yeah they probably could have ran the ball more. At the end of the day an Alabama defense allowed 42 points to points in a championship playoff to a 3rd string quarterback.

    • Saban threw Kiffy under the Roll Tide bus. As I recall, Saban mentioned the offense didn’t take advantage of its opportunities – read Kiffy “screwed Tide’s pooch,” and will be honored as scapegoat Numero uno. Kiffy and goat are reunited.

      Petros outlined Kiffy’s mistakes as the same mistakes Kiffy made at Clown U. Lionherd appeared breathing as other experts ripped Kiffy another one.

      Am I the only one who thinks the unshaven Lionherd is way out of his depth on Fox Sports.

      • Yeah you are. But if Leinart doesn’t do it for u maybe they can replace him with one of the six others who have won a heisman at USC. Come on dude Petros…….really.

        • Come on Sassafras, Lionherd needs seven man front to make he doesn’t get mauled on camera. He nothing more than a SUCC Himbo.

      • Is there anything, no matter how trivial, related to USC football that gets by you?
        The style of Matt Leinart’s necktie is the latest thing that bothers you.
        There are so many other things you could do with your time!

        • Lionherd works for Fox Sports not “SARKcessful” FB.

          And thank you Jetskid for taking your valuable time from your busy Bean Counting operation to comment on my Lionherd fashion critique.

          Petros came up the hard way, worked his way up and earned his spurs; Lionherd hasn’t earned squat except the label – NFL failure.

      • Hey ugly rents the rose bowl, hopefully you get thrown out of here. BTW, Moran is a Moran, ugly’s coach.

      • hey ugly rents the rose bowl, Do you think Fox, Espn, CBS, NBC, or ABC, would even dare think of hiring a ruin to do any type of announcing? They couldn’t take the chance of a blithering idiot stumbling over the harsh words such as football, 1st and ten, and a very big hard word for your and your liked, fumble. Besides, they would be a laughing stock. the audience would ask, why did they bring these clowns on since they don’t have any credence behind them because they have not even sniffed a January 1st bowl game in like over 20 years. LMAO HAR HAR.

    • 2/13 on 3rd downs … 3 picks , 1 pick 6 on a jumped know what is coming killer … another pick on 1st down at OSU 21 LOL … Ya good game for Kiffin

    • Kiffin and Suckisian need to find new professions. Neither are any good at what they are trying to do.

  3. Wow! Kiffin gets universal rave reviews all year from every sort of analyst and observer–objective and non objective alike & now he is the goat? Come on people. Kiffin is not even close to the reason Alabama lost. Reason number one is Sims made bad decisions al night long and was spotty in his play. Reason number oneA is defense– pointed out by Saban as biggest problem–unable to get off the field on 3rd down. Ohio State won and Alabama got beat. Kiffins
    prints are on the loss, just as much or as little as everyone from Alabama. And oh yeah, how about giving Ohio State a little credit.

    • Sims made bad decisions like Barkley made bad decisions — trying to force-feed Cooper with little or no option to do much of anything else.

      He did this with Robert Woods. He did this with Marquise Lee. He abandoned the run when it was there. When the middle screen for Henry, who it one for 50 yards, was taken away Kiffin went to it three more times. It was like watch 2012 all over again, but with better players.

      Give Ohio State all the credit. They out-played and out-coached Alabama.

    • those reviews were false, if you watched Bama play decent D’s ( Ole Miss, even Arky, LSU ) Goat sucked as usual. Like Sarkisian , Goat runs up stats vs bad teams and chokes vs good Ds.

  4. Kiffin’s been the best decision by Sabin since last December – the game was lost because Sabin did not make any half-time adjustments and Meyer’s did. If there is fault here it is on the AL defense and the seeming foolishness of Sabin reading his own press clippings instead of realizing he was facing a two time coach who had quickly turned around a declining program and had previously won 2 BCS Championship games.

    Great game plan by OH St. – taking nothing away from OR and Mriota beat down of FL St. bgut based on Meyer’s preceding experience, advantage OH St. in Dallas on the 12th

    • Not so fast. One thing I don’t think OH can handle is the repetitive speed of OR offense. Of course they will try to keep up and will score, but they haven’t seen anything like OR yet. I expect a lot of points by both teams on the 12th.
      Please, no troll replys.

      • And Mariota won’t make the same mistakes that Sims did. The Ducks not only have speed, they have power with Royce Freeman. They are a complete team.

        Now that 3rd string OSU QB is an absolute stud. He may have more physical ability than any QB in the country. His development will be interesting. He has a cannon for an arm. He runs with speed and power. Wow. Talk about QB depth!

        However, I think the Ducks will finally get over the hump.

        • Probe I hope they do – this is a great match-up because finally the confederacy and their rigged ‘OOC’ has finally caught up with them – SEC West sent 7 teams to post-season 2014/15 their bowl record? 2-5!

          If IA takes down TN and East Carolina the same to FL the SEC flames out to 5-7.

          The ACC finished at 4 – 6, Big 12 currently is 1 – 4 w. 2 to go, Big 10 is 5 – 4 w. 1 to go

          Right now the Pac-12 is sitting on a 5 – 1 bowl record w. two to go UCLA vs. KS St. and WA vs. OK St..

          • I think the Bruins show up today and win by 10. Huskies beat Ok State and P12 goes 7-1.
            Unfortunately, we just get to look forward to Alford destroying our BB program after the bowl game.

          • For years the Pac10 did not fare well in bowl games, usually ending up with a losing record.
            This year, the conference seemed to have depth like never before and it is showing in the bowl record.
            I do like to see the conference do well but can never bring myself to pull for UCLA.

      • Maybe…maybe not…Winston’s receivers were boxed up most of the night – Mariota’s weren’t. I will say for this game – for college football Mariota has no equal the
        if
        factor is Helfrich 1st time in the BCS CG vs. Meyer’s 3rd.

        I’m hoping for a Pac-12 Champion other than Troy but man Meyer is one sharp coach – two moribund programs in 5 years and darn near the same w. UT and Alix Smith back in 2005.

        • So Otis, how do you ‘splain Little Petey Pom-Pom’s first time in the SB victory over John Fox, the veteran?

    • It’s your lucky New Year wish come true Otis. Putain, in a effort to jump start Russia’s nose diving economy, has authorized lowering Vodka prices 16% across the board.

  5. USC Firing Kiffin made sense….. Firing him to hire sark was idiotic. Sark make me long for the Kiffin era. Bama did well with Kiffin…. He’ll be there a while

    • Kiffin may make it to next year … he is long gone after that. Guy is a dumb cancer and Saban doesn’t play that game with anyone. He did Goat’s agent ( his agent ) a favor , it wont last

  6. I really thought that the Wolfman would post something even more petty and nasty about Kiffin after last night’s game. This post was kind of a let-down. Maybe Wolf is saving the juicy remarks for later, after he’s had time to round up others’ comments from Twitter.

    • Scott is trying but I think even he is finding it hard to pin all of the blame for Alabama’s loss on the offensive coordinator when the defense gives up 42.
      Stay tuned though, Wolf is probably not finished.

  7. Wolf- the Alabama D gave up 42 points. The Alabama O scored 35. They scored enough to win, the defense let them down. Low hanging fruit, Wolf. If they ran more and lost, you would say they were upset that they did not pass enough.

  8. Lane Kiffin better take the first job that opens up in the Mountain West Conference , because the media is either going to make him or break him in Alabama . He needs to leave while the getting is good, because he’s a lousy coach, and will eventually be exposed.

  9. what we didn’t see was the porous, horrendous, confusion filled defense so typical of USC in those days..err wait that’s today too….

  10. blame bama’s defense as well. Oh well, why do we care. the sEc took on Johnyy cheeitn’ Wooden’s best trait and that was to be the best cheater that they possibly can be. The sEc has done an exceptional job of reading Johnny’s book called, “If you ain’t cheatin’, you aint’ tryin'”. Number 1 seller at ugly and throughout the sEc. LMAO off at ugly and the morans that respresent that fine pizza delivery school called ugly or Thug U.

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