re: Matt Mascona's surprising suggestion for OC if Cam bolts...

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Alabama's O-line makes Kiffin look a lot better than he is. Easy to run an offense when you have that wall every year.

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Sure it helps to have Bama's talent, but you're nuts if you don't think Kiffin deserves a ton of credit.

He took a first year starter (Sims) and made the playoffs. Then he took another first year starter (Coker) and won it all.

His play calling is diverse and creative. He's good, you just have to admit it.

When kiffin gos west I hope he flies over the piggies not our beloved skies !

2008 offense wasnt really bad besides the pick sixes. Compare 2008 to 2011. The defenses really helped define those seasons.

2008 Offense stats nationally

Scoring Offense 30th
Offense scoring per game 30.92
Total Offense 55th
Yards per game 368.08
Passing Offense 71st
total passing per game 201.31
rushing offense 43rd
Rush yards per game 166.77

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2011 stats nationally

Scoring Offense 17th
offense scoring per game 35.7
Total Offense 86th
offense per game 355.07
Passing Offense 106th
passing per game 152.50
Rushing Offense 22th
Rushing per game 202.57


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The ONLY way Kiffin would come to LSU is if they guaranteed him "HC in waiting". That ain't happening. Moving on...

All u frickin idiots bickering back & forth about kiffin this, kiffin that, bama's OL this, OL that, are missing 2 obvious points.
1. He only makes 700k. Offer him double. Bama would match, he would stay. We make bama double his salary
2. Let's say he isn't your top hire. Let's say he's 3rd on your list. Buuuuut, you'd be delivering a huge blow to your biggest rival.

I'd hire him just on appearances alone. He's obviously a top notch coordinator & recruiter (when he follows rules) no matter what u imbeciles think. But even if he was just "above average", the damage to Bama would make up for it. And, above average is better than anything we've in a long time

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Wow... you're a complete idiot.

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Well contemplated retort.

You seem to be avoiding the question.

Yeah, no way Bama would allow a lateral move to a SEC west opponent. They would pay him whatever they had to in order to keep him. I remember a certain softball coach who had announced that he was making a lateral move to LSU......until they convinced him to not do so.

It's not happening, but we should all be in 4 Applewhite, come on home Major.

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Kiffen is legit. He took and under manned UT team and would have beat Saban if the Frickin refs would have called a penalty for fat mount Cody taking his helmet off!! Dude can call some good plays and excels in creating mismatches. BTW our offense is the worse I've ever seen at creating mismatches.

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Anybody that says he's not a good OC are just fooling themselves. Both stints at USC, Tennessee stint and Bama, he has produced successful offenses.

USC in 2005 he had the #2 scoring offense with all those stars on there like Leinart at QB, Bush and LenDale at RB and Steve Smith and Dwyane Jarrett at WR. Even when he lost that star power at QB and RB after that year, they still finished with a top 20 scoring offense and JD Booty was very successful in it. His second stint at USC was at least successful on offense as well.

At Tennessee he more than doubled their offensive output the before. Crompton finished with 2800 pass yards and 27 TDs on 58.3% after being pretty garbage the year before.

You all know what he has done at Bama. Blake Sims, a QB turned RB, turned seldom used backup QB broke Alabama records in total yards, total TDs, and passing yards, among others. This year they averaged a modest 227 yards passing per game with 68% cmp and 22 TDs to 10 ints. That's with a true freshman WR, a 1st year starter WR, a 1st year starting JUCO transfer WR, and a seldom used TE as their top 4 pass catchers.


He would dominant with LSU's talent, but Miles likes puppet OCs. He likes guys that are either passed their prime, or weren't really that good in the first place.