Paul Finebaum calls out Lane Kiffin’s coaching decisions: ‘He drives you crazy’
By Keith Farner
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Paul Finebaum was left with a head-scratching response to some of Lane Kiffin’s coaching decisions from Saturday against Alabama.
During Finebaum’s weekly Sunday chat with Matt Barrie, the ESPN “SportsCenter” and “College Football Final” host concluded that Kiffin will review that loss as one that shouldn’t have got away.
Finebaum replied, “You can argue LSU and Tennessee anyway you want. But this was the one game Alabama should have lost of all these. I don’t need to proclaim my love for Lane Kiffin. Obviously he’s entertaining, he’s an amazing coach. But he drives you crazy watching him coach a game. He makes calls that I know he believes in the numbers on, and he gets some of them right, but it just seems like in those big games, he always comes up short and that’s how I felt yesterday. Not a rooting interest, but to talk about later, but I felt like, ‘Lane, what are you doing here?’ And I know he’s got a chart, he plays the odds every time. But sometimes you have to go with instinct, especially when you’re playing a team that has infinitely more talent than you do.”
A former newspaper veteran, Keith Farner is a news manager for Saturday Down South.
