If you follow anyone from Knoxville or any Tennessee football fans on Twitter, you will likely see the letters “w”, “t”, and “f” typed out a lot this evening in close proximity to eachother.
Why?
Because Lane Kiffin, the young and energetic coach with the hot wife who was supposed to lead the Volunteers out of the doldrums and back to national prominence, is now reportedly heading to SoCal to replace Pete Carroll at USC.
Update: And here are the Top 10 reasons why Kiffin is leaving Tennessee for USC.
From ESPN.com’s report on Lane Kiffin leaving Tennessee for USC:
Tennessee’s Lane Kiffin has agreed in principle to become the next head coach at Southern California, sources close to the situation told ESPN.com’s Chris Low on Tuesday.
…
According to the sources, Kiffin will bring his father and defensive coordinator, Monte Kiffin, and assistant head coach and recruiting coordinator Ed Orgeron to Southern Cal with him, and wide receivers coach Kippy Brown will be named interim head coach at Tennessee.
You will remember that Kiffin coached at USC under Pete Carroll before leaving to take the head coaching position with the Oakland Raiders. He then left Oakland embroiled in claims by Al Davis that he was a two-faced liar.
Tennessee fans might now be starting to side with Davis.
Update: Jason Whitlock just tweeted something that I think makes a lot of sense. Why not former Texas Tech coach Mike Leach in Knoxville?
Mike Leach would be a good fit at Tenn. Great athletes in that offense.
Well Vol fans, it was fun while it lasted. At least we’ll always Layla and her orange dress.
**********
* – Layla Kiffin photo credit: 3rd Saturday in Blogtober
About Jerod Morris
