ESPN is giving Kiffin a little heat . . .

[spatownsteve]

"The only decent thing Kiffin will bring to Southern California will be Layla."

And the best thing he left in Tennessee is his resignation...

Vols fans should feel relieved, the man is morally bankrupt and intellectually handicapped.

[LRCentralTiger]

Kiffin crap starting to move ahead. 

Some very good definition in the article below.  I love the last one from Pat Forde.

Jeff Schultz - AJC

It's an all-out assault on Kiffin, Garrett and USC

1:18 pm January 13, 2010, by Jeff Schultz
Lane Kiffin not surprisingly is getting hammered, but so if everybody else involved with his move.

Lane Kiffin not surprisingly is getting hammered, but so if everybody else involved with his move.

It could be that Lane Kiffin and USC are a perfect match, after all. Hard to say which side is getting ripped more: The coach who vowed loyalty to the Volunteers and is leaving after one season, or the school that just handed its high-profile program over to a guy who has coached one season of college football and went 7-6.

Of course, if the Trojans end up on NCAA probation (courtesy of the now-departed Pete Carroll) and the program is run into the ground with Kiffin at the wheel, then everybody outside of Los Angeles will find this whole episode hysterical, right?

OK, enjoy these excerpts:

Gene Wojciehowski of ESPN.com slams Kiffin as a used-car salesman. No, actually worse:

    If there were a stock car race between all the frauds, egomaniacs and two-faced weasels I've ever covered, Lane Kiffin would have the pole position all to himself.

    Kiffin is a spin doctor without a medical degree. He thinks truth comes in different shades of gray. He demands loyalty, but gives none himself.

    Kiffin is a used car salesman with a whistle. Wait, that's not fair to used car salesmen. He ditched Tennessee for USC after just 13 games. The remaining five years on his contract, the players he left behind, the nine high school recruits who enrolled early, they all meant nothing to Kiffin.

Dennis Dodd of CBSSPORTS.com lays into USC and athletic director Mike Garrett:

    A clown car pulled up to Heritage Hall. Out jumped the guy in the bright maroon tie and clueless look on his face. Balloon animals, kiddies? Smelling salts, USC?

    Bozo the AD — Mike Garrett is his stage name — rode one of those tiny tricycles up to the door of USC's hallowed athletic headquarters, paused, cleared his throat and tried to tell a joke. The punch line came out as, "Lane Kiffin has been hired as the 22nd coach in USC history to replace Pete Carroll ..." We laughed out of shock, frustration and incredulity.

    Mike Freakin' Garrett hired Lane Freakin' Kiffin? One is a recluse. The other tried to wreck Urban Meyer. One fiddled while O.J. Mayo earned — about $20,000 in improper benefits by one estimate. The other led with his mouth.

    Garrett has himself a coach with a .363 career winning percentage, a guy with as many NCAA secondary violations as wins in his first year at Tennessee. A coach who taunted, teased and tweaked so often he has a rule named after him in the SEC.

Dan Wetzel of Yahoo Sports on USC (and therefore Garrett):

    USC, which is facing a multi-sport, department-wide NCAA bloodletting next month, just hired a guy who in his tenure at Tennessee was a walking secondary violation (six of them), had two players booted off the team after an attempted armed robbery and leaves with NCAA investigators looking into how the program used recruiting hostesses. And, of course, he was a Trojan assistant when the compliance trouble USC must answer for began.

Michael Rosenberg of SI.com takes on the world:

    Well, I really have to hand it to the USC Trojans: They aren't even faking it anymore. They're in it to win, everything else be darned.

    The Trojans brought O.J. Mayo in to their basketball program in the most publicly illegal way possible. Their best football player of the last decade, Reggie Bush, reportedly took hundreds of thousands of dollars from a wannabe sports marketer while in school. Their best running back last season, Joe McKnight, reportedly drove a Land Rover registered to another marketer.

    Now, with the NCAA finally dragging its USC investigation(s) to the finish line, USC athletic director Mike Garrett just hired ... Lane Kiffin. Lane Kiffin, Mike? Really? What happened? Did Barry Switzer say no?

Mike Freeman of CBSSPORTS.COM on Kiffin and college coaches in general:

    Once again, we're handed a wonderful example of why college sports is such a disgusting cesspool full of hypocritical, degenerate, greedy sons of you-know-whats. Lane Kiffin: You're the next contestant on This Coach is Full of Crap. Come on dooowwnnn!

    There has to be some sort of stand taken. The line keeps being crossed and the greed grows in new and more grotesque forms. Universities make millions and the players get nothing. Coaches make millions and the players get nothing. Players' movements are restricted while coaches move at will with practically no punishment.

Pat Forde of ESPN.com on everybody:

    At this rate, Lane Kiffin is an 8-5 season at USC away from a $50 million contract to coach Peyton Manning and the Colts.

    Seriously, why not? If a 31-year-old with no head-coaching experience can get the Oakland Raiders job, and a guy who got fired from that job after losing 15 of 20 games can get the Tennessee job, and a guy who went 7-6 in a reckless first season in Knoxville can get the USC job ... is there any rung of the sport to which Kiffin cannot climb?

    Paris Hilton has paid more dues than Lane Kiffin.