Would You Buy a Used Car From Lane Kiffin? Not Me!

Well, it looks like the snake-oil salesman Lane Kiffin conned another program into giving him a chance.

Amazing enough, Lose Kiffin got the keys to the kingdom of one of the most storied programs in college football, a team that will make preseason top ten lists every year, no matter what they did the year before.

So, how in the world does Laney-boy do it?

Kiffin is known above all for his talent as a recruiter. 

And what does a recruiter do? 

He sells young men and their families on the football team. 

So, putting it bluntly, Kiffin is a salesman.

Kiffin sold Pete Carroll on the fact he had a clue about running an offense, so much so that Kiffin basically forced Norm Chow out of USC.

Kiffin sold Al Davis on giving him the Raiders job.

Kiffin then sold the media that it was all Davis' fault that things went wrong in Oakland.

He sold Tennessee that he was a great head coach in spite of Kiffin's lack of previous success.

He sold a lot of young men that he could make them famous and get them to the NFL.

And now he sold USC with its soon to be departing president and athletic director that he will be able to maintain USC's position at the top of the college football world.

And it looks like Kiffin had his assistant try to sell USC to his Tennessee recruits before he even left Tennessee.

Sure, Kiffin has used his father's name and reputation to further his own cause.

But what is Kiffin's own name and reputation worth?

Where is Kiffin's track record of on-the-field success?

Where is his record of running a clean program without off-the-field issues (a big problem at USC now with NCAA investigations)?

Kiffin has now earned himself a reputation as an untrustworthy smooth-talker, without loyalty to anyone but himself. 

Without a proven personal record of success, how long will folks continue to buy his line of bull?

If Kiffin had stayed at Tennessee and built upon 2009 by having a successful 2010 (and it looked like the Vols might have contended for a BCS bowl game and the SEC East crown in 2010), then all his self-puffing would have finally been justified. 

Instead, he heads to a USC squad in turmoil.  Given the recent run of success of Pete Carroll, Lane will have no more than two seasons to get USC back to the top ten.

So, eventually karma will rear its ugly head and Kiffin will likely leave USC in disgrace and scorn.

After that, who would hire him for a major head-coaching job ever again?

So, if karma proves right, long term you will find Kiffin working at a little used-car lot offering credit (on questionable terms) to anyone that will buy one of his lemons.

I, for one, am not buying anything from this man now or later and nor should you.