Several names continue to circulate about the expected head coach opening at Tennessee, and former Vols coach Lane Kiffin is among them.

“I think Lane would crawl back to Knoxville,” ESPN’s Chris Low said as a guest on The Swain Event. “Oh yeah, I think he would in a heartbeat.”

Kiffin is in his first season as head coach at Florida Atlantic after he was the Alabama offensive coordinator for three seasons. Previously, he was the head coach at Southern Cal for four seasons after his 7-6 campaign as Tennessee’s coach in 2009. Kiffin’s Florida Atlantic team is 3-3 this season.

Low added that Kiffin’s told him as much in the past, but he’s not sure if the current decision-makers at Tennessee would support a possible Kiffin reunion.

“I think Lane definitely wants to get back somewhere in the limelight where he thinks he’s got a chance to be nationally relevant, win some championships at the highest level of college football,” Low said.

Host Jayson Swain said there are plenty of people who don’t support the idea, but one group that is open to the Kiffin understands that Kiffin “hates” Alabama coach Nick Saban, and “poked that bear.”

“That would be great to have a coach who’s not scared of coaches and who doesn’t buddy-buddy and hug up to the coach and one who would attack the coach,” Swain said.

Added Low, “He’s probably better equipped to manage a program than the first time he was here. … I’m a Lane Kiffin fan, as big of a knucklehead as he is, and I’ll tell that to his face. There is a lot of things he does well. He’ll surround himself with a good staff, he’s just got to be a lot more seasoned when it comes to managing a football team.”

Low also added that Kiffin’s father, Monte, the one-time Tennessee defensive coordinator told him that they should never have left Tennessee.