Tennessee has a new football coach.
Lane Kiffin has reportedly been picked to replace Phillip Fulmer as the head coach at Tennessee. The announcement will most likely come next week as the university doesn’t want anything to distract from “Phillip Fulmer Appreciation Day” this Saturday.
May favorite stat from this change over is this; Fulmer has been at UT for 35 years. Lane Kiffin is only 33-years-old. That’s right, Kiffin wasn’t born until 2 years after Fulmer got to Tennessee as a player.
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Kiffin was 5-15 in a year and a half with the Oakland Raiders before being fired earlier this season by team owner Al Davis.
Kiffin, the youngest head coach in NFL history when he was hired by the Raiders, earned $2 million per year in Oakland. His salary at Tennessee is expected to exceed that.
One of the big draws with Kiffin was the staff that he’ll potentially be able to put together. He’s talked with his father, Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin, about joining him at Tennessee. The elder Kiffin is considered one of the foremost defensive minds in football.
Kiffin will become only the fifth head coach at Tennessee in the last 45 years. He had stints as offensive coordinator and recruiting coordinator at USC and shared play-calling duties with quarterbacks coach Steve Sarkisian during his two-year run as offensive coordinator with the Trojans in 2005 and 2006.
Credit: ESPN.com
