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Richard Johnson January 2, 2017 Steve Sarkisian will assume the duties immediately. In a deviation from the original plan, Lane Kiffin will not call plays for Alabama in the National Championship. Instead, he’ll head to FAU early and assume his head coaching duties. The timing of this is fairly interesting. Kiffin was originally slated to stick around. Former Bama assistants Jim Mcelwain and Kirby Smart stuck around for the Tide balancing their new head coaching duties and coordinator responsibilities in Tuscaloosa. Now the responsibility will fall to former Washington and USC coach Steve Sarkisian. Sark has been an offensive analyst...

When former Vols head football coach Lane Kiffin bolted from Tennessee 365 days ago, the reaction was swift, and at times ugly. Kiffin may be gone, but he is not forgotten. On Saturday, Frontier Firearms in Kingston is giving Tennessee fans the opportunity to take aim at the plastic likenesses of Lane, and his father, former Vols defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin. The event is titled, "Shoot Coach Lane's Bobble-Head Day." "That's what sports is about. They have teams, villains, teams they don't like, coaches they hate. I think Kiffin will go down, in Tennessee fans book, as one of those...

First we were shocked to discover that former UT football coach Lane Kiffin is a woman. Now we’re surprised to find out Kiffin won the first round of Esquire’s “Sexiest Woman Alive” poll, beating the No. 1 seed in the Sports bracket, curvaceous golfer Natalie Gulbis, with 56 to 44 percent of the vote. Now we think it’s time to put aside past differences and get behind the man, or woman, who left us behind. Kiffin’s second round opponent is NASCAR’s Danica Patrick (who defeated ESPN’s Erin Andrews in her first round match). Looking at Patrick and Kiffin, we have...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP)—Phillip Fulmer wants to make it clear that he’s willing to help his alma mater. But he isn’t looking to replace his successor at Tennessee. < snip > The man who was 152-52 in 17 seasons at Tennessee did not refer to Lane Kiffin’s abrupt resignation. He called “recent events” painful and embarrassing.

Words mean things. And in the fishbowl of big-time college football where any utterance can end up on a locker room wall, message discipline is one of the most important jobs a head coach undertakes. Unfortunately for the Tennessee Volunteers, it's a lesson Lane Kiffin might never learn.

Kiffin introduced as UT coach; will make $2 million in 2009 - Former Oakland Raiders coach Lane Kiffin was introduced today as the Vols’ 21st head football coach at a 2 p.m. press conference. Kiffin will earn $2 million in 2009 and the contract will escalate to $2.75 million by its end in 2014, according to a release from UT distributed to the press just before today's press conference. The deal averages $2.375 million over its six-year term and includes performance bonuses if certain goals are achieved. "I'm rolling my sleeves up and going to work," said Kiffin, after being...

ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP)—The Oakland Raiders fired Lane Kiffin on Tuesday just four games into his second season, bringing finality to a situation that had been simmering for eight months. Kiffin had a 5-15 record since being hired last year, losing his final game 28-18 on Sunday to San Diego. The decision on Kiffin was as much about his frequent criticisms of owner Al Davis’ franchise as it was the team’s performance on the field. Those critiques reached a peak when Kiffin distanced himself from the defense after a blowout loss in the season opener, saying that was under coordinator Rob...