Lane Kiffin
Lane Kiffin
Lane Monte Kiffinis an American football coach and former player. He is currently the offensive coordinator at the University of Alabama. He formerly served as the offensive coordinator for the USC Trojans football team from 2005 to 2006, head coach of the National Football League's Oakland Raiders from 2007 to 2008, head coach of the University of Tennessee Volunteers college football team in 2009, and head coach of the USC Trojans from 2010 to 2013. Kiffin was the youngest head...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth9 May 1975
CityLincoln, NE
People don't understand how hard it is to do what he's doing. He's like a movie star in L.A. He's done a fabulous job dealing with the attention. Most 22-year-old kids could never handle what he has to experience.
The backups moved the ball against the first unit of an SEC team.
Every week, you can usually find something on film to get excited about, something to exploit. They don't have anything. Those guys, to me, look like they have 11 NFL prospects. They don't look like anybody else.
We weren't sure what to expect from him. He's really grown up. But this is his (final) year and he's worked his butt off.
This will be more like a traditional NFL game, with great football players on both sides of the ball. This is probably a slower game, probably a lower-scoring game.
There's no coordinator in college football that could ever even try to put up numbers against him. ... He'll be missed.
Oh, he's a much better fit in the NFL.
No, we expect to be better. That's out goal, to do things better than they have ever been done before.
They're very close right now. It's unbelievable how far (Sanchez) has come in one year of being here. ... Mark has narrowed the gap. Obviously, it was a huge gap when he got here.
I haven't even thought about that. I imagine that will be the perception out there.
In the five years I've been here, probably the best defense (we've faced), right there with Oklahoma last year. Extremely fast, and on film people have not had very much success with them. We'll try to find a way to make a couple of first downs.
He's really gone to the next level, he's much more mature and he's blocking a lot better.
Every time Reggie is in your huddle, you're limiting the calls that a defensive coordinator can make. Reggie helps us in so many ways that you can't even imagine.
He won't even be out there today. He's getting another MRI. His back just locked up Tuesday. He's barely able to walk around.