Low level job.....He can do better then that.
Now the question for Alabama becomes whether Lane Kiffin will stay on as offensive coordinator through the playoff after accepting the head job at FAU. He said after the SEC Championship Game that he'd like to remain on staff, but that was greeted with skepticism within the program.
Alabama offensive coordinator Lane Kiffin has agreed to become Florida Atlantic's coach, sources told ESPN.
Kiffin had been engaging in back-and-forth talks with the Conference USA school since last Friday, sources said. At one point, negotiations between the two sides had stalled, but a deal was struck early Monday morning, sources said.
Sources told ESPN.com that Kiffin plans to remain as Alabama's offensive coordinator throughout the College Football Playoff, similar to what former Tide defensive coordinator Kirby Smart did last season after taking the Georgia head-coaching job.
Kiffin, 41, returns to the head-coaching fraternity after three seasons as offensive coordinator under Nick Saban. The Crimson Tide are trying to win their second straight national championship and have won three straight SEC titles with Kiffin getting three different first-year starters ready at quarterback, including true freshman Jalen Hurts this season.
Kiffin's contract with Alabama was set to expire after this season and he wasn't expected to return, helping to explain why he made a hard push to find a head coaching job, even if it meant a step down and most likely a pay cut.
One of the finalists for the Houston head-coaching job, which went to Major Applewhite last week, Kiffin takes over an FAU program that was 3-9 this season. He replaces Charlie Partridge, who was fired in November after going 9-27 in three seasons at the Boca Raton, Florida, school. Kiffin was also being pursued by new LSU head coach Ed Orgeron to be the Tigers' offensive coordinator.
Kiffin, considered by many to be one of the top offensive minds in the game, has also generated his share of controversy earlier in his career, giving some athletic directors and presidents around the country cause for concern about his ability to manage a program. But Saban said last week that he was confident that Kiffin was ready to be a head coach again.
This will be Kiffin's fourth different head-coaching stint. He was the Oakland Raiders' head coach for the 2007 season and part of the 2008 season before being fired by Al Davis, the late Raiders owner. He went to Tennessee as head coach in 2009, but then bolted for USC after just one season in Knoxville.
A former assistant at USC under Pete Carroll, Kiffin was the Trojans' head coach from 2010 to '12 and then fired five games into the 2013 season by then-USC athletic director Pat Haden. At USC, Kiffin inherited a program under severe NCAA sanctions. He was 35-21 at Tennessee and USC and 5-15 with the Raiders. He landed all three head-coaching jobs before the age of 35.
Kiffin does have some ties to the Florida area. His father, Monte Kiffin, was the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' defensive coordinator for 13 years from 1996 to 2008, and Kiffin was on the Jacksonville Jaguars' staff for a season in 2000.
Kiffin had been engaging in back-and-forth talks with the Conference USA school since last Friday, sources said. At one point, negotiations between the two sides had stalled, but a deal was struck early Monday morning, sources said.
Sources told ESPN.com that Kiffin plans to remain as Alabama's offensive coordinator throughout the College Football Playoff, similar to what former Tide defensive coordinator Kirby Smart did last season after taking the Georgia head-coaching job.
Kiffin, 41, returns to the head-coaching fraternity after three seasons as offensive coordinator under Nick Saban. The Crimson Tide are trying to win their second straight national championship and have won three straight SEC titles with Kiffin getting three different first-year starters ready at quarterback, including true freshman Jalen Hurts this season.
Kiffin's contract with Alabama was set to expire after this season and he wasn't expected to return, helping to explain why he made a hard push to find a head coaching job, even if it meant a step down and most likely a pay cut.
One of the finalists for the Houston head-coaching job, which went to Major Applewhite last week, Kiffin takes over an FAU program that was 3-9 this season. He replaces Charlie Partridge, who was fired in November after going 9-27 in three seasons at the Boca Raton, Florida, school. Kiffin was also being pursued by new LSU head coach Ed Orgeron to be the Tigers' offensive coordinator.
Kiffin, considered by many to be one of the top offensive minds in the game, has also generated his share of controversy earlier in his career, giving some athletic directors and presidents around the country cause for concern about his ability to manage a program. But Saban said last week that he was confident that Kiffin was ready to be a head coach again.
This will be Kiffin's fourth different head-coaching stint. He was the Oakland Raiders' head coach for the 2007 season and part of the 2008 season before being fired by Al Davis, the late Raiders owner. He went to Tennessee as head coach in 2009, but then bolted for USC after just one season in Knoxville.
A former assistant at USC under Pete Carroll, Kiffin was the Trojans' head coach from 2010 to '12 and then fired five games into the 2013 season by then-USC athletic director Pat Haden. At USC, Kiffin inherited a program under severe NCAA sanctions. He was 35-21 at Tennessee and USC and 5-15 with the Raiders. He landed all three head-coaching jobs before the age of 35.
Kiffin does have some ties to the Florida area. His father, Monte Kiffin, was the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' defensive coordinator for 13 years from 1996 to 2008, and Kiffin was on the Jacksonville Jaguars' staff for a season in 2000.
I don`t like the idea that you can hire a guy while the season is still in progress.....That`s stupid.
He`s the OC for a team that is still playing.....He needs to finish out the season then get hired by another team.
Stupid shit if he`s not calling the plays for Alabama in these up coming games.
He`s the OC for a team that is still playing.....He needs to finish out the season then get hired by another team.
Stupid shit if he`s not calling the plays for Alabama in these up coming games.
Agree 1000%.
What really is the total "necessity" of having it done this way?
I grasp: Recruiting, that being the battle that it is and every moment counting the sooner a perceived +EV Head Coach is in place Blah Blah Blah
but you're absolutely dead-on right Greenbacks. NCAA needs to mandate that this crap stops, ASAP while Season is in Progress.
From a 'capping perspective this Coach Carousel that sees guys abandoning programs prior to that team's final game is terrible.
No Way to cap this, to intelligently factor this Wild Card in. Turns the question of Team Motivation/Attitude into a Coin Flip.
I don`t get it......Look at the Houston situation.....Tom Herman gets hired by Texas while the team is still active.....They have a bowl game.....Mean while the new coach Major Applewhite is coaching the team in that bowl game...LMAO......Makes no sense to me.
All hiring should be done after a champion is crowned.
That HOUSTON situation was among the Worst, ever, re: 'Capping cuz common knowledge was that Herman was going for quite a while in advance of what we normally see, "Talk" on that coming down heavy with MULTIPLE games left
then HOU mystically turns in that total stink performance versus SMU
SMU?!?!?
Seriously?!?!
I understand Greg Ward QB HOU was less than 100% and other key players as well but its just plain stupid this allowance of this crap prior to Season's end.
Its not like we and they don't have 7 months without College Football, waiting for that to start up again, to address this stuff without tossing a complete WRENCH into capping the games
while the season is still going on.
That stuff aside I do very much like what this hire does for Conference USA cuz Lane thinks he can waltz in and Impress Enough to Trampoline into another Sweet Head Coaching gig at a top tier Power Conference program, faster than he could have had he taken OC at TX, LSU whatever that talk was
but WKY gonna have some thing to "say" about that plan.
May be ODU, LaTech, even MTSU could have something to say....versus The Golden Boy.
This IMO does Bring The Conference up.
Raises some thing.....I am not sure exactly what tho.
SOMISS
lane.
Nick Saban: "I know you're going to ask me about Coach Kiffin. Lane has done a phenomenal job. ... We think this is a wonderful opportunity for him." Saban confirms that Lane Kiffin will stay on through the playoff.
