Hot Seat Tour

While on probation and with his track record, Coach Kiff will always be on the hot seat. IMO, he can only get some breathing room with a BCS bowl win/Pac-12 title. That's at least 2 years out.

Kiffin is an awful tactician and motivator. All we need him to do is to keep the boat afloat for 2-3 years by landing some decent recruits.

Please explain to me how Neuweasel is not on this list? Has UCLA completely dropped off the radar where Hawaii and New Mexico are more relevant programs?

I don't understand why Hawaii would be listed. They played SC tough and traveled across country and beat Army. And I agree with sonic, Neuheisel has lost media support and is rapidly losing alumni. I think he will be gone after this year.

That's cuz they haven't seen Kiffin's fake "press conference" yet. Please Scott, will you tell him how lame that is?

"Kiffin is an awful tactician and motivator"

Ding...Ding...Ding...

It disturbing to watch this spoiled frat boy after 9 years of PC.
Unless he is a top five recruiter, his stay at Troy will be short lived.

Even then, its doubtful he will get the most out of whomever he recruits.

Coach Kiff's probably not the most charismatic motivator, but he's not a bad tactician. I've been pretty impressed at the job he's done with the Raiders (doubled their win total and they actually played hard) and with Tennessee (they were a lot better with him than they were under Fulmer the year before).

Any time you have a new coach (and all new coordinators) there's going to be some transition time. I think we're seeing that now. I was really impressed with the playcalling in Hawaii and if not for a couple of drops, penalties, and poor throws versus Virginia, that game would have been a lot more impressive too.

The two things that have alarmed me most, is the play of the offensive and defensive lines. But I know we've got good coordinators in there for that, so I'm not too worried. I just hope Monte can stay/get ahead of the opposing offense with his schemes. NFL schemes don't always work with college players (see: Bates, Jeremy)

@sdog - I wonder if Greg McMackin is on the hot seat because he called the sisters of the irish a bunch of fruitcakes. He probably could have used his words more carefully, but it's hard to argue with his premise - as notre dame is by very definition, a very fruity school.

The biggest knock against McMackin is probably that he's not June Jones, though few are. I don't really like Jones, but dude can coach.

Ricky should definitely be on this list. Maybe after a 1-11 season, he will be.

Kiffin is a placeholder during probation. The new AD after Haden will launch a nationwide search and come up with the best young coach available.

farts.

@malachi crunch 5: I totally agree.

@gotroy22...you are nuts! This coaching staff will succeed in spades! Just give it a chance..
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