Lane kiffin: How long did coach at tennessee| Tennessee| TN…

Lane Monte Kiffin (born May 9, 1975) is an American football coach who is currently the head football coach at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss).

Lane kiffin: How long did coach at tennessee| Tennessee| TN

How long did coach at tennessee:

Kiffin spent six seasons on Pete Carroll’s staff at Southern California before becoming a first-year head coach in 2007 with the Oakland Raiders — the NFL’s youngest head coach in the modern era (31).

When Kiffin’s NFL coaching career soon fizzled, he inherited Phillip Fulmer’s mess in Knoxville as Tennessee’s head coach in 2008 and paced the Vols to a second-place finish in the SEC East. That’s when USC came calling about its head coach opening following Carroll’s departure to the Seattle Seahawks. In three seasons, Kiffin’s Trojans won 25 games, but it wasn’t enough to appease athletic director Pat Haden after a 7-6 finish in 2012.

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Nearly a decade after departing Tennessee for USC, Florida Atlantic head coach Lane Kiffin discussed the aftermath of his decision with ESPN’s Chris Low.

When Kiffin left Tennessee after just one season as head coach to take his dream job at USC, it led to a chaotic scene in Knoxville in which current LSU head coach Ed Orgeron, who followed Kiffin from Tennessee to USC, was calling midterm enrollees at Tennessee who had yet to start classes in hopes of getting them to jump to USC as well.

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Some of the reporters who covered his shocking exit are still around Knoxville, but many have moved on. Their personal stories behind the ones they reported provide a unique angle to the night Tennessee fans will never forget.

“As soon as people figure out that I covered that season at Tennessee, (the night Kiffin left) is all they want to know about,” said Austin Ward, former Tennessee football beat reporter for Knox News.