Tigerpaul1969

Dana X Bible-A&M, LSU and Texas

The best part of the Eli trip was when they were interviewing him after that game during the LSU v Arkansas broadcast and he’s blabbing about how they still have a chance and maybe Arky can pull it out and we score a long TD while he’s yammering.

It’s an untenable situation. Once everyone knows he’s leaving (and whoever’s going with him), those people cannot be allowed near the program. Not in this circumstance. Other situations lend themselves to coaches finishing their season, but this ain’t one of them.

BTW-we just went through this 4 years ago with Kelly whose ND squad was in the playoff. He had to go.

I will be really interested to see if Sumrall gets Tulane to the playoff and whether OM or Florida allow him to coach. All signs point to NO.

Happy Thankskiffin to you and yours!

As I recall, the LSU brass got the vote of confidence on Saban from Bill Polian. He thought Saban was a great defensive mind and would be very successful as a college head coach. And also recall, he had just led Mich State to wins over Michigan AND Ohio State. He was definitely NOT a scrub. Not one of the “top names” either. Which is what scares me about Kiffin. The only “big name” hire I can think of recently that translated into an actual title is Harbaugh (and that one is sketchy). Woodward did it twice in the last seven years and flamed out on both.

LET THE DOWNVOTES COMMENCE!!! TL;DR!!!

He is currently in his fourth year as a head coach. He spent two years at Troy and is in his second year at Tulane. His head coaching record at those two lower tier football schools is 40-11. But, even more impressive, look at 8 of those 11 losses:

TROY

2022: at Ole Miss;
at App State (a 6 point road loss to App State the week after they beat Texas A&M on the road)

2023: at Kansas State;
James Madison (a 2 point loss to a Curt Cignetti coached JMU)

TULANE

2024: Kansas State (7 point loss);
at Oklahoma (it was 24-19 in the fourth quarter);
Florida in the bowl game

2025: at Ole Miss

Oh, and this year, they beat TWO Power 5 schools, blowing out Northwestern (who has looked very competitive in the Big 10 this year) and Duke (who beat Clemson and has been more competitive than not in the ACC this year), and beat Memphis at Memphis (who beat Arkansas in Memphis this year)

I remember when his name was one of the first to pop up several people on here making fun because he beat Duke as though that were something to scoff at when he coaches at frickin Tulane.

I think he really could be the next Cignetti. But, we'll go out and hire Kiffin for $60 million for four years and be right where we are now in 4 years.

I like the idea of someone off the radar (not a big name or job) who is hungry to prove himself. And young. Would approve.

Asking for a friend.

Couldn't agree more. That's why this series must persist.

No. I remember Lily Tomlin thought she gave Dabney Coleman rat poison in 9 to 5.