Music City Miracles
Every year, Lane Kiffin is one of the hottest names in college football coaching searches. Kiffin went through a lot of ups and downs as a young coach, but has really settled in at Ole Miss and done a fantastic job there. He is in his sixth season in Oxford and has compiled a 53-19 record there.
Bruce Feldman wrote about Kiffin and the open college jobs today, but included this nugget in his article:
This situation seems to be trending in a positive direction for Rebels fans who would like to keep their coach, but one note of caution: One industry source said there was at least a modicum of interest in Kiffin among decision-makers with the Tennessee Titans.
Now, that would be an outside-the-box hire. Kiffin does have experience as an NFL coach. He was the head coach of the Oakland Raiders for 20 games in 2007 and 2008. It was a messy ending: the then-owner of the Raiders, Al Davis, fired Kiffin for cause after the team went 5-15 during Kiffin’s tenure.
Kiffin has seemingly grown a lot since then as a coach and a person. Now, does that mean the Tennessee Titans should hire him as their next head coach? That’s a good question. The thing we do know about Kiffin is that he can coach quarterbacks. His quarterbacks have been really good at pretty much every stop along the way. He did a fantastic job with different types of quarterbacks as the offensive coordinator at Alabama under Nick Saban. He’d be great for Ward.
At the end of the day, my guess is that Kiffin stays at Ole Miss. He has a really good thing going there, and as Feldman mentions in the article, his family has really settled in at Ole Miss. There was a report, from Chris Low, I think, that Kiffin almost took the Auburn job last year, but his daughter convinced him to stay in Oxford, where she is a student at Ole Miss.
Do you want the Lane Train as the next head coach of the Titans?
