Kiffin Kool Aid

[bama nation]

I think the major difference in this year's spring game is that the players showed a lot of discipline.  There were very few instances, is any, of players jumping off sides, dropping the snap from center, fumbling the ball, etc. 

[Yo Mamma]

This is TN and real fans with a real stake in UT want to and will give Lane a fair shake. I think any new man gets a bovids pass and treatment. The only football coach in my life time treated with any real disrespect on a large scale was Battle.

Anybody with any real sense knew that Majors had outlasted his welcome and should have been fired at least 5 years earlier than his exit.  The general response was what took them so long to fire his . I understand a close friend of Johnny and a real money booster told Johnny that after numerous public temper tantrums and it went over his head. He just started in on his patented ego trip stories of his days as a Single wing TB and his heroics at Pittsburg like anybody had not heard that crap ad naseum from him.

DAD quit on us and went to FL and he was still welcomed back by a majority of the SHEEP with open arms.

Even with Fulmer folks bent over backwards to let him leave with dignity and let him get his Neyland Trophy. Most folks wished to treat him with dignity. Some of the Majors folks still had an axe to grind and some folks just didn't like him because he wasn't Spurrier. Over all he was treated well.

The folks that treated Majors, Fulmer, DAD and Battle well will also treat Lane with dignity, wish him the best and support the program. Those folks will be a bit sheepy towards him.....

I on the other hand really did not warm up to Fulmer until after he delivered the NC and I even felt empathy for him as the trash element started bashing him and his family. I was a Majors supporter until the end when I realized what a sorry trashy egostistical bastard the guy really was. I never forgave DAD for Florida and I never will, but I do wish he could comeback to UT to oversee  Ogeron as he grasps the reigns of our program.

What I know about Kiffin is he is a typical football coach, a . The spin about putting UT into the spotlight is sheep talk to cover the fact that yes he really is that stupid. But the guy is connected in the football world and is surrounded with really good people as he grows on the job... A current assistant AD says he is a rich man's Buzz Peterson, a stuffed shirt with a pretty face. Tony Basilio referred to him as a Barbi or Ken hire when he first was announced.

To be fair Majors success was based on surrounding himself with good people. His downfall was his ego and how he screwed them because of his insecurity. On the other hand Fulmer was a smart guy who surrounded himself with idiots because he lacked the confidence to surround himself with top notch staff. Thus Randy Sanders and Dave Clawson.

To sum up this manifesto I am glad he is getting the SHEEP Love  and folks are drinking the kool Aid. In the future Small Mike just might be calling for his head on radio shows from coast to coast...

  Great post. Virtually everything said in this post is 100% true. I just wonder how many of the Kiffin and/or Majors bootlickers will understand it. The only addition here would be the description of Majors does not adequately cover what a piece of trash he really is.

[TerribleTowel]

Terrible Towel ole Fulmer is in a very small fraternity of guys who won a NC

Yeah.  With bums like Larry Coker and Lloyd Carr.  Coaches don't win NC's.  Players do.  Coaches put programs in position to win titles.  UT was there when Fulmer took over as HC.  Just like Coker at Miami and Carr at Michigan.  Just because those clowns won NC's doesn't make them better than Bo Shembechler or Butch Davis.  I have no idea if Majors would have signed Manning or not.  My guess is that he would not have signed Peyton with Phil as OC, but would have if Cutliffe was his OC.

[roustabout]

I didn't see ANY real improvement on Saturday (Orange and White game).  I hope they look a lot better in the fall then they do now.

That don't fly. i watched a little on the replay and saw an improved team. Especially considering a new system, and that this was an actual ones vs. ones game. The previous staff ruined the spring game. They smoke and mirrored their way through spring with green jerseys and ones against twos and had no idea what they had or didn't have.

The team ran the ball very well. Crompton still made mistakes, but a made some good throws under pressure.

This staff has given these guys a short rope. I see a team that is working smarter, harder and faster.

[Yo Mamma]

 I see a team that is working smarter, harder and faster.


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I know you played the game at a high level, right? Well you at least coached before, right? Maybe in high school? Well, I guess you are just a football savant. Maybe not. Simply a neck fan that has no idea what he is watching when he watches it.

[roustabout]

I'm sorry DV. Please forgive me. Will you pmail me and let me know what I can and can't comment on?

[Gustoly]

Lots of great coaches haven't won a NC.  And those who have, many have lucked into them.  And then did nothing afterwards.  Right time - Right place comes to mind.

     
*AND:
That's funny:  I thought BIB was a 8 ft - 390 lb BB, karate, judo, kung fu, chop chop expert.  I didn't know he was a FB guru also.                 

[MRM]

I have no idea if Majors would have signed Manning or not.  My guess is that he would not have signed Peyton with Phil as OC, but would have if Cutliffe was his OC.

If Majors had been retained after '92, Fulmer would have taken a head job somewhere else and Cutcliff would have been the new OC.

[Jimbo1]

Majors should have been fired 5 years earlier? If I am not mistaken, he won the Sugar Bowl in '91. He certainly had his faults, but I miss the tweed jackets. I think he did take the program as far as it could go, but there was no easy way to have him step aside. He had a friggin heart attack for crishitake. In his mind, he was coach for life, and they would have to cart him out of there on a stretcher.

[KNOWLEDGE]

Majors should have been fired 5 years earlier? If I am not mistaken, he won the Sugar Bowl in '91. He certainly had his faults, but I miss the tweed jackets. I think he did take the program as far as it could go, but there was no easy way to have him step aside. He had a friggin heart attack for crishitake. In his mind, he was coach for life, and they would have to cart him out of there on a stretcher.

Jimbo1, Majors is a perfect example of no matter how good you are at your job, you can only cuss out your bosses so many times before you eventually get fired.

[Toothless Athenian]

Its not Kiffin Kool-Aid but it is hope that things can be turned around. There will be no 10yr droughts without a title under Kiffin's watch cause he won't last past 5yrs on the Job without an sec title. The sorry assed media in this town give Fultanic a pass and set around and watched as he clusterfrigged  UTFBprogram into the ground. Kiffin will never be as lucky cause he's not a Tennessee boy. So theres no amount of hands he can shake or he can kiss he has to win soon or face what Fulmer never had to!

TA.

[TerribleTowel]

TA is exactly right.  We don't know how quickly UT football can recover from the swine flu, or if Lane Kiffin is the cure.  However, I don't think Lane is going to get 5 years to spin away lack of progress.