Determined to go out making even more noise than when he arrived, Lane Kiffin’s last night in Knoxville began when he told his players he would be headed out West. This NY Times Article claims they weren’t too happy.
“Coach Kiffin recruited me, Ed Orgeron came in my living room and recruited me, and now they’re gone,” said Robert Nelson, a redshirt freshman from Stone Mountain, Ga. “I don’t know what I’m doing yet, whether I stay. I need to see what the older guys are going to do. There are a lot of guys who are not sure if they are staying after this mishap.
“Guys were really angry at him last night, really angry.”
After breaking the news to his players, Kiffin made his way to some sort of UT media room, where he forced the press to obey his first wish as a man free from the stifling confines of Knoxville.
Do not question “Left Coast” Lane. He is Hollywood now.
Before he arrived at the presser, a UT rep made reporters aware of Mr. Kiffin’s odd TV/print demands, after which this spirited exchange took place -
Click to watch the pre-presser reporter mêlée.
Notice how the angry asshole in the sweater vest handles his stack of papers like it is a butterfly knife ready to bury deep into journalist flesh.
The pre-presser seems on par with watching the 6 tape, VHS box set of ‘Lonesome Dove’ compared to Lane’s one and a half-minute press conference.
The reason he was so anxious to get out of there seems to have had something to do with the angry mob that was gathering outside.
Kiffin needed a police escort out of town, and angry UT students proceeded to “riot”, torching Kiffin T-Shirts and a mattress.
Even in the midst of the bedlam, Ed Orgeron managed to put in some work for USC while he was still present on Rocky Top. The Trojans are getting their money’s worth with Ed – no one in the business can apply their trade quite like “The Ogre”, as shown in this last video.
Yes indeed, exciting night in Knoxville.
Watching UT students whipped into a berserker rage and Rocky Top descending into anarchy gave me a great deal of pleasure – until Derek Dooley decided to play mister buzzkill.
It’s sacrilege I tell you…












