NCAA Lane Kiffin Raise Hell (But Not Win Totals) At USC
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Jan 12 2010, 5:01 PM
After a world wind tour of the NFL in Oakland and the SEC in Tennessee, Lane Kiffin is bringing is circus act back to the West Coast. In a move that should have surprised no one but seems to have caught most of the sports media world off guard, the former USC assistant couch will wear the big head set on the sidelines in LA next season. Fight on????
Tennessee's Lane Kiffin has agreed in principle to become the next head coach at Southern California, sources close to the situation told ESPN.com's Chris Low on Tuesday.
Kiffin would replace Pete Carroll, who jumped to the NFL as coach of the Seattle Seahawks.
Kiffin, the former Oakland Raiders coach, led the Volunteers for only one season.
Sources told ESPN Kiffin will bring his father and defensive coordinator, Monte Kiffin, and assistant head coach and recruiting coordinator Ed Orgeron to Southern Cal with him, and wide receivers coach Kippy Brown will be named interim head coach at Tennessee.
Kiffin has been on the move of late. He was 7-5 in his one season at Tennessee and 5-15 in one-plus seasons with the Raiders before being fired in September 2008.
He was a member of the USC coaching staff from 2001-06.
After a world wind tour of the NFL in Oakland and the SEC in Tennessee, Lane Kiffin is bringing is circus act back to the West Coast. In a move that should have surprised no one but seems to have caught most of the sports media world off guard, the former USC assistant couch will wear the big head set on the sidelines in LA next season. Fight on????
Tennessee's Lane Kiffin has agreed in principle to become the next head coach at Southern California, sources close to the situation told ESPN.com's Chris Low on Tuesday.
Kiffin would replace Pete Carroll, who jumped to the NFL as coach of the Seattle Seahawks.
Kiffin, the former Oakland Raiders coach, led the Volunteers for only one season.
Sources told ESPN Kiffin will bring his father and defensive coordinator, Monte Kiffin, and assistant head coach and recruiting coordinator Ed Orgeron to Southern Cal with him, and wide receivers coach Kippy Brown will be named interim head coach at Tennessee.
Kiffin has been on the move of late. He was 7-5 in his one season at Tennessee and 5-15 in one-plus seasons with the Raiders before being fired in September 2008.
He was a member of the USC coaching staff from 2001-06.
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