re: How did LSU fans view Lane Kiffin before he ever came to LSU?

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I've always wanted Kiffin at LSU...

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Just like every other LSU fan who predicted he was going to destroy the Alabama football program when Saban hired him.

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I've noticed that nearly all LSU fans consider Kiffin to be an almost God like head coach, now that he's coaching LSU. Anyone who has anything even remotely negative to say about Kiffin, the LSU fans immediately shoot it down and come to his defense.

So my question is, did all of you LSU fans jerk-off to Kiffin when he was coaching the Raiders, Tennessee, USC, FAU and Ole Miss or did this whole circle jerk begin once he stepped off the plane at LSU?

Did any of you LSU fans ever say that Kiffin has only been good at 2 schools that had very little pressure to succeed; FAU and Ole Miss. And when he has been in high-pressure head coaching jobs, like the Raiders, Tennessee and USC, he has absolutely shite the bed and struggled in pressure jobs/situations.

Not that I would say that LSU fans are two-faced hypocrites or anything, I was just wondering how you all felt about Lane before he ever flirted with the LSU job.

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I've always thought that Kiffin had a brilliant football mind, basically a football savant; but that he needed to grow up and get his shite together.

I initially thought he might have been a fraud after the Raiders fiasco, but my opinion has changed over time. I loved the old Silver and Black, they were my "other" NFL team after the Saints (as a Saints fan growing up, you loved the Saints, and then you had a team- Cowboys, Steelers, Raiders etc- that could actually win a Super Bowl). But Al Davis went insane by the end, and that team was a disaster.

I think Kiffin knows more football than almost anyone, and he wouldn't compromise with anyone to do it his way; and I think he also always had one eye on moving to a bigger program or team. Those 2 factors in conjunction left a trail of bodies in his wake, and almost ended his coaching career prematurely. He left Tennessee in shambles to take the USC job (in his mind, going to a pinnacle spot), and left/fired at USC because he refused to do what the powers there wanted him to do.

I think the "rehab" at Bama under Saban was NOT about football, it was about surviving in the football business. How to get along enough, not to get escorted off the property, at least until he had the skins on the wall to be able to dictate to everyone how things are going to be run. I think he "got fired" at Bama, because Saban wanted him to focus on one team. Can't be a coordinator at a school, and go all-in as head coach elsewhere... can't divide attention. Do you want to be a head coach, or do you want to be a coordinator.

I think FAU was proof he still could run a program, and Ole Miss bought in on that. And Ole Miss was the evidence "bigger" schools needed to see, that he could both elevate a school at this level, and that he could hold his shite together long enough that his ideas would take hold.

I do sorta feel bad for Ole Miss. They rolled the dice on 'damaged goods' Kiffin and it paid off for both the school and Kiffin. And after he turned Auburn down, there was the sense/hope that he would stay there, and Ole Miss could become a power going forward. But this past year that bubble burst. I honestly thought he was going to go to Florida, but then LSU fired Kelly before the Gators could lock things up. And you knew Kiffin was gone, it was just a matter of which program.

I think LSU got the nod after firing their AD and promoting Verge Ausberry. Verge doesn't have the ego to try to force a coach to do something, he's just there to manage the business end. LSU agreed to let Kiffin do things his way, as long as he wins. That was the deciding factor.