Michigan State fired their coach after two years. I haven't seen them play this year, but that doesn't seem to be giving the guy much of a chance. And it's expensive.
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I feel more for the kids that signed up to play for him at Old Miss and, if the CFP Committee follows the precedent it set with FSU, will not get a chance to play in the playoffs because Lane Kiffin wanted a bigger pay day. Kiffin has been, and will always be a douchecanoe
Kiffin's career has been drama and mostly mediocrity. Add that into the complete clown show LSU has shown themselves to be the past couple months, it's really hard to see how this becomes Saban/Alabama 2.0 no matter how much talent he draws to Baton Rouge.
Jamie Pollard seems to be beating the market pretty substantially.
Maybe it has been stated in this thread...but certainly what causes this situation (and many others like it every year) is the calendar. Maybe they should have a "transfer" portal for coaches that has a beginning and end date? I know it is impossible to create that...but the calendar causes this type of situation. There is no end to college football any longer...promises to recruits and then leaving...a job you desire opens and you leave for it when offered. Just a messy situation all around but I don't blame him for taking this job if he really wanted it. I would be interested to know if Ole Miss offered 7 years and $100 million...would Lane have stayed? We will never know...
I love how he gave his assistants an ultimatum after dragging this out with Ole Miss.
I saw part of one game late in the year, they seemed to be playing hard despite not being very good. Feels like a mistake to fire him that early.
Smith was the previous AD’s hire and went against the will of a lot of the donors. I was very happy with the hire at the time but there were quite a few ripples from it that were unexpected and adding in his record he was a dead man walking.
His demeanor and public comments were also a major issue. Losing a winnable game to Michigan last year by claiming he wasn’t prepared for the rivalry’s intensity made a lot of people pretty upset and his vibe as just a chill guy who never shows emotion or raises his voice is a bad look when your losing by 40 against the best of the big ten.
He also doomed himself with his QB choice that saw leavitt leave for ASU and for his handpicked guy to really struggle. The team has looked way better starting a freshman than with Smith’s guy. I think smith still is a pretty good coach and good talent evaluator in many other ways but it just didn’t tend up being a good fit.
Still would rather have year 3 smith as the players seem to love him then hiring Fitz but the decision seems to be made.
There's some luck involved but mostly what this points to is terrible hiring skills.
Isn’t conventional wisdom that lottery winners tend to poorly manage their finances?
Was wondering if Penn St would even consider him. I could have seen it work.
I would HATE to coach at a west coast B1G school.
He failed at USC and the Raiders. He’s more than capable of failing.
Will JMU let him coach in the CFP after Duke wins the ACC?
The target on his back will be huge.
Minimum he’ll have to make the playoff within his first 2-3 years. That might buy him time to win a national title in 5-6 years.
Not a chance he makes it through a 6th season without a title if it doesn’t look like he is on track to win it all that year.
This year might have been Kiffins best shot at a Natty. If he fails to win a natty at LSU, he may regret leaving when he did.
