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re: Assuming Saban does another several seasons, what happens to Kiffin?
Posted on 1/27/16 at 12:55 pm to BamaScoop
Posted on 1/27/16 at 12:55 pm to BamaScoop
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from what I am hearing Lane is enjoying his time at Alabama and he is learning a lot of things that he needed to learn from Saban. I think he will be a head coach again but I also think he is content at Alabama.
I would find this easier to believe if the money wasn't so far off. What he's making as on OC is what 30% of what he'd make in another p5 HC position? For better or for worse, he is a "splashy" hire and he'd land somewhere paying 4mil a year, if not more.
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If he stay past next year I have to assume he is being promised the keys to the gate when Saban steps down to become AD.
I could see that happening, but only if it happens after this year, MAYBE one more (2017) but that seems like a stretch.
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Posted on 1/27/16 at 1:00 pm to mwade91383
Is USC still paying him the difference in what he was making and what he's making now, or has that ended.
Posted on 1/27/16 at 2:43 pm to mwade91383
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I would find this easier to believe if the money wasn't so far off. What he's making as on OC is what 30% of what he'd make in another p5 HC position? For better or for worse, he is a "splashy" hire and he'd land somewhere paying 4mil a year, if not more.
USC owed him several million dollars when they fired him, and any salary from Alabama probably mitigated against that. Kiffin has made a boatload of money the last two years, but I think that ended with the 2015 season.
Kiffin has done an outstanding job as an OC, but it's a far stretch to say that he is ready to manage an entire program. Entirely different skill set.
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If he stay past next year I have to assume he is being promised the keys to the gate when Saban steps down to become AD.
Who in Tuscaloosa has the authority to make that decision? 74 year old Bill Battle? 70 year old Paul Braynt Jr? Judy Bonner? Hardly. They may not even still be on the job when Saban retires. If Kiffin wants the job when it becomes open, whether it's in one year or five, he will go through the same process as any other interested applicant.
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