Lane Kiffin having fun with all the attention Tennessee fans are giving him
Does Tennessee really have a chance to bring Lane Kiffin back to Rocky Top following the firing of Jeremy Pruitt?
That’s the question many Volunteer fans are asking themselves as Kiffin speculation has been running rampant for days in Knoxville with even the Ole Miss coach finding the rumor mill tough to avoid at this moment.
Case in point, we’ve reached the part of the Tennessee coaching search where fake Twitter accounts are popping up claiming the Vols have made a hire. If you missed it on Monday, a fake Tennessee 247Sports account “announced” that Kiffin was “coming home!” to Tennessee.
Keep in mind Kiffin spent 10 months in Knoxville, he’s now been in Oxford longer than he was ever lived in Knoxville, which makes the “home” part even more ironic if you think about it.
Turns out, the fake news regarding Tennessee hiring Kiffin on Monday has even reached Oxford.
In the exchange below, you can see Kiffin laughed it all off:
If Kiffin was hired by Tennessee, it appears that would be news to him.
Kiffin is just an average coach. If he would’ve stayed at UT, we would likely have not fallen into this hole but he didn’t. Personally, I can’t get past the way he left. Don’t care that he left, just didn’t like the way he did it. No matter, he doesn’t answer to me but I wish you guys would just get off him coming to UT. He’s not.
Wrecked the program when it could have been on the upswing. If I were UT, I wouldn’t consider him nor would I want him if he’d jump ship so quickly, again.
Hey Vol fans, why would you want him back after he skipped out on you, and why would he want to return after all of the vitriol spouted at him (not necessarily undeserved)?
Move on from the past, look toward the future. You have a new AD with the potential to move you in the right direction. Let Ol’ Miss have him, they deserve him. Tenn can do better now that the carpet bombing of your program appears to be over if you will just let the new AD do his job.
its probably about 60/40 in favor of kiffin but it doesnt matter. he is out. Not even being considered. Same for freeze. What most everyone has said is 100% correct. with the ncaa mess we have looming we will not hire anyone with even a whiff of baggage, not even a small carry-on. The search should be over within another day or two.
Let him do his job?? No one is stopping him from doing his job. Please stop trying to blame stuff on people on a message forum.
Look at the bright side at least there aren’t any Kevin Sumlin rumors
Man. I really wish there a LIKE button!
If he did come back to Tennessee, we’d know he hasn’t changed: running out on a program (this time Ole Miss) after a year.
Not gonna happen, but just sayin.
Rush Propst is available
Lame Kiffen turned his back on Tennessee when the football team and the school needed him most.
Understandable, since there was a Tennessee cheerleader riding on it. It even caused him to wreck his car.
My sister has a better chance at becoming Tennessee’s new head coach than Lame Kiffen. He is where he is, he needs to stay there, it is what it is, and that’s that.
And if I hear the Gruden train start promoting Jon Guden to “come back to Tennessee,” I’m gonna throw up. In my mouth. Again.
You are 100% INCORRECT on the car wreck.