Phony Kiffin Outrage

Finebaum distraught over bama so he has to shift his focus to attacking someone else

Finebaum is distraught because Kiffin was Bama’s ace in the hole when they evetually part ways with Deboer. In their minds, Kiffin was to complete his image rehabilitation at Ole Miss and then return to the mothership at Bama. LSU wrecked that.

DeBoer did the same thing. The only difference is that Saban retired late in the cycle. He left a title contending program for Alabama but we don't shite on him.

Everything they do is for clicks.
I pay them no mind

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Are you sure he won't jump to AL when they call?

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Nothing is certain, but I like LSU’s position to keep him more than Bama’s ability to take him.

The land$cape has changed rapidly. Bama’s tradition doesn’t have the lure as it once did in the eyes of players.

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Finebaum is distraught because Kiffin was Bama’s ace in the hole when they evetually part ways with Deboer. In their minds, Kiffin was to complete his image rehabilitation at Ole Miss and then return to the mothership at Bama. LSU wrecked that.

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No, Alabama could have, and should have, hired Kiffin when Saban retired if that was “the plan”. The rehab was already complete, OM had just gone 11-2 with a Peach Bowl win and he wasn’t in the playoff so could have left clean and avoided what we’re seeing now.


But remember, Alabama, and Saban, acted like bitches in the 2016 cycle when he left for FAU, and it likely cost them that NC, the same way it will cost OM now.

The Alabama admin and alum didn’t like or respect Kiffin the way they should have then and never saw him as worthy of their job until all of a sudden they were the last to realize he’s one of the few coaches left in the country who is an actual coach that can make an impact in game and not just a glorified GM/bagman who can’t call his way out of a HS jamboree.



All of the Lane/Bama talk assumes Lane cherished his time there when all indications are he was miserable during those years. Yes, it was an invaluable opportunity to rehab under Saban and succeed at the highest level, but Saban rode his arse like a dog and treated him like shite, which is maybe what he needed at the time and did him a service in the long term, which is why he respects SABAN. But that doesn’t apply to ALABAMA as a program.

Ultimately he didn’t “enjoy” the experience or his time there, and while it got his professional life back on track it also coincided with a dark time in his personal life with off field issues that cost him his marriage and could have destroyed his family.


Now that he has rehabilitated his family life why on earth would he want to go back to where it all fell apart after the tumultuous years between leaving USC in 07 and again in 2013?


He finally has everything in place both on field and off in his personal and professional life and is ready to build the legacy at LSU that will make everyone forget about the Raiders and Al Davis’ attempts to destroy his reputation, the Tennessee exit to go back where he felt he never should have left, SC and Pat Haden (and O) scapegoating him as they came out of sanctions, and finally OM and irrelevant nobody Keith Carter whose name will be forgotten by anyone outside of Oxford the same way it was before this episode once the Golding era ends in shambles, the same way Saban made it his mission to make his time in Miami a footnote no one would ever talk about again.



The Alabama job will be used by Sexton at some point to get more money for his client, which is all he has been doing since 2000 with Saban and every other coach he represents. But Kiffin will settle in BR the same way his dad finally found a home in Tampa after decades of roaming NFL cities to forge a legacy.



Sit back and enjoy the ride baws, Lane built a legit contender in Oxford.

We all saw what the worst coach in Ole Miss history was able to do at LSU, now watch what the best coach Oxford has ever seen will do in Baton Rouge.

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What are your thoughts on the moon landing

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What moon landing?

I've been saying this. So much seems manufactured for clicks.

Really no reason to hate him over this. He wanted to coach his team, but he also didn't want to miss an opportunity of a lifetime.

Should be just as much against every coach who’s been wooed away, including Kyle Whittingham.