Lane Kiffin light-heartedly jokes about a return to Tennessee
When new Tennessee AD John Curry was an assistant AD in Knoxville in the late 2000s, he was part of the athletic department staff that fired longtime coach Phil Fulmer in 2008 and replaced him with Lane Kiffin.
Kiffin only lasted one year with the Volunteers before bolting to USC and becoming Public Enemy No. 1 in Knoxville. He has proceeded to troll the Vols (and USC, for that matter) several times since then.
On Thursday, Kiffin made a light-hearted joke about returning to Tennessee now that Currie has been named the school’s athletic director:
Another gem (all in fun) from Lane Kiffin: "You didn't know I was part of the deal with John Currie coming back to Tennessee, did you?"
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Though it was a joke, it probably won’t go over well in Knoxville, where there are still plenty of bad memories from Kiffin’s one year as the Vols’ head coach.
The Vols went 7-6 in Kiffin’s one year at the helm, falling to Virginia Tech in the Chick-fil-A Bowl.
Alot of so called fans get down on me for bashing Tennessee coaches and this is one of the reasons why I bash. Coaches are so full of shat ots pathetic. All of them. Hell Kiffin was all about UT while he was here, now bashes them. Hypocritical. Its all about money. Will say it one more time, I bleed orange but I dont have to love the coach. As far as I see it, Jones is just a tad better than a used car salesman. Until Tennessee wants to open up thay pocketbook, then thats all they will get.
I dont see it as hate so much as having fun with the total lack of humor Tenn. fans have. Instead of seeing what he said as a light hearted jab at Tenn. fans they blew up. Now if they would either a) just ignore him, or b) laugh at him, he would eventually give up and go away and bug someone else. He might go back to trolling USC again.
If only UT fans could be as mature as Hog fans were during the Houston Nutt, John L Smith and Petrino fiasco’s…
Or if they could be as mature and level headed as Hog fans are now with fat boy as the Head Hog.
BTW, have you been to an Arkansas fan site?
Haha, a lack of humor? You’ve obviously never seem the glory that is Vol twitter.
Yeah Hog fans didnt enjoy the whole Petrino motorcycle fiasco jabs at all. Plus the crazy as hell John L. Smith year was a riot. My point almost all coaches are talk and full of B.S. Fans that sit back and believe it are just as bad.
Kiffin will come back to Tennessee right after Kayla comes back to his cheating azz.
Well Kiffin does account for 25% for their winning seasons since fat Phil left……
Good thing for yall too, cause fat Phil made a habit out of beating Bama.
When was the last time Tennessee beat Bama? Ah the glory days right?
It wasn’t so long ago that the narrative was switched. Read up on the UT-Bama series. It will all come back around, and Tennessee will start a streak of their own.
I don’t have to read up on Bama-UT. I know the history of the series but as long as you have butch nobody at Bama has anything to be concerned about……