Posted on 01/02/2017 9:55:43 AM PST by blam
Sarkisian has been on the Alabama staff for most of the year. Kiffin and Sarkisian have run similar offenses.
Many (including me) Did not like the play calling during the Washington game.
Seems like an odd time to change horses, but Saban knows what he’s doing, I suppose.
Yeah Saban knows what he’s doing: making sure Kiffin doesn’t get any credit. The guy is an abusive dick. Hell of a football coach, but complete slime as a human being.
I hope Clemson beats the crap out of them.
The other USC and Ped State in the Rose Bowl. I hope they decimate each other, but I won’t be watching.
I don’t know that much about him but I doubt he would make such a move if it jeopardized winning the championship.
Good news. RTR
Those of us at Tennessee remember well what an “honorable” person he is
An obsessive planner and routine guy like Saban would not make such a drastic change without provocation.
I think the media hype about Kiffin’s naughty schoolboy act in terms of defying Saban is overdone but Kiffin did make some thinly veiled critical remarks about the salt-mine conditions that the coaches must endure and Kiffin has been the very visible victim of some sideline abuse by Saban.
The Peach Bowl was a walkover even for a distracted coach but perhaps Saban believed then and now that Kiffin could not and would not devote his full attention so out he goes.
It’s not going to jeopardize the win. The game plan is in place, Sarkisian will call almost all the same plays Kiffin, they just plain have a better team than Clemson, and now no one can question Saban’s brilliance. Also he won’t be getting to scream at Kiffin, but I’m sure he’ll find somebody.
“Sarkisian was a buddy of Kiffin and followed Kiffin as head coach at USC after he (Kiffin) was fired. “
and both of them got their USC gigs because they were buddies of Pat Haden. Haden’s habit of hiring his bros is why he’s no longer in charge at USC.
I'm sure this (above) was a final nail.
I thought it took a quarter for Alabama to warm up, but after that, I thought their offense and defense were dominant. I don’t like Kiffin, but if he’s running the Alabama offense then he deserves credit.
Lane Monte Kiffin (born May 9, 1975) is an American football coach who is currently the head coach at Florida Atlantic University. Kiffin formerly served as the offensive coordinator for the USC Trojans football team from 2005 to 2006, head coach of the National Football League's Oakland Raiders from 2007 to 2008, head coach of the University of Tennessee Volunteers college football team in 2009, and head coach of the Trojans from 2010 to 2013. He was the youngest head coach in NFL history when he joined the Raiders, and, for a time, was the youngest head coach of a BCS Conference team in college football.[1][2] Kiffin was the offensive coordinator at the University of Alabama from 2014 until 2016, when he was hired at Florida Atlantic.[3]
Kiffin is the son of longtime NFL defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin.[4]
Don’t you mean the original USC? And don’t go there. South Carolina College didn’t change it’s name to become the phony USC till way after the Trojans.
he is afraid of that Clemson defense?
The guy is an abusive dick.
you know the guy personally, do you...?
It almost always takes the Tide a quarter to get it’s act together. However they usually dominate the fourth quarter. I’ve decided that it is superior conditioning. I’ve noticed that the Tide’s big guys aren’t as fleshy as other teams. Some players on other teams are just plain fat.
The play calling wasn’t the problem. Washington had a good defense. Don’t sell them short. Several of those guys will play on Sunday and they have a bunch of very good college players.
Thanx this was the first game I saw this ear. I’m a UCLA USC guy and don’t necessarily like the Tide, but they are on their way to re-writing the record books. It’s also nice to know USC coaches who mess up will have job security in Birmingham.
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