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re: Looking for opinions other than Bama fans: Is Kiffin a top 5 OC in the country?
Posted on 9/24/14 at 1:00 pm to AllBamaDoesIsWin
Posted on 9/24/14 at 1:00 pm to AllBamaDoesIsWin
No but he may be in the top 5 for the style he runs by virtue of there not being many who run it. That's not a knock either. Kiffin looks to be a capable OC, however, I'd caution any Bama fan that an OC working with Bama talent is always going to look good. That's just how good your recruits/players have been compared to everyone else. IOW, it's very hard to judge how good or bad he might be just on Bama.
That said, the knock on Kiffin has never been that he's an incompetent but that he's amoral, prone to cheating in rather dumb ways, and can act like a douche.
Then there's the inevitable destruction he always seems to cause sooner or later.
That said, the knock on Kiffin has never been that he's an incompetent but that he's amoral, prone to cheating in rather dumb ways, and can act like a douche.
Then there's the inevitable destruction he always seems to cause sooner or later.
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Posted on 9/24/14 at 1:13 pm to Prof
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I'd caution any Bama fan that an OC working with Bama talent is always going to look good. That's just how good your recruits/players have been compared to everyone else. IOW, it's very hard to judge how good or bad he might be just on Bama.
This is true, but not entirely fair. Bama's offense wasn't exactly humming in years past under that guy who went to Colorado State. It did better under Nussmeier, but few people ever really credited Bama as a top-level offensive program. So having great talent helps, but it doesn't guarantee greatness in an OC. In any event, it's a moot point, really -- if Kiffin does well with the talent Bama gets, he's going to do well while at Bama, right? They'll still be getting the talent, after all, so there's a rhetorical tautology about the argument.
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