School of hard Knox: Interesting article on Kiffin:

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"I'm scared to death for his safety," Robin Kiffin said of Saturday's game. "Some people were visiting us last weekend from Tennessee and they said they better not let him on the sideline (where Kiffin coaches at Alabama), they should put him in the press box. I want him to be in the press box."

Former Tennessee athletic director Mike Hamilton wishes Kiffin's first game against the Vols would have been in Tuscaloosa instead.

"I know that Tennessee fans have some really hard feelings," Hamilton said. "Tennessee is a storied program so to have someone sort of walk out on them, even given it was for his dream job and the way that whole year went down, there's not going to be any love shared. But I also believe Tennessee fans are smart enough that they don't want any kind of scar on who they are by going overboard in the reaction to it. And I say that not even knowing what overboard means."

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Kiffin left the football complex in a police car. Kiffin's wife Layla received about 1,200 negative text messages after someone posted her cell phone number on a landmark rock in Tennessee, according to Robin Kiffin, Lane's mother.

"Their house was very hard to find and there were people looking into their window that night," Robin Kiffin said. "When my movers went several months later to move my stuff, people were yelling stuff at my movers and someone threw a cigar on our balcony and tried to burn our house down. It was all very unsettling for this to happen over a football coach."

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