Lane Kiffin Shows Us Head Coaches Can Be On The Hotseat During Their First Year

I can not recall a time when a head coach was ever placed on the hot seat in his first year. Isn't there a grace period that goes along with a new hire?

Not when you come in with the boastful bravado and shoot from the lip mentality of Lane Kiffin. 

This is a man who without ever coaching a single play or winning one single game wants to trash talk. It's one thing when Steve Spurrier takes a jab at someone; he's earned that right. If Les Miles wants to throw out a one liner, he's got the ring and the mileage behind him to do so.

And now here comes this pitiful little chihuahua that wants to come out and play like a big dog when he still hasn't proven he's more than a porch puppy.

Earth to Lane Kiffin: Win a game or two first before you trash talk.

Lane said he wanted to "excite the fan base" and to "throw them some red meat." That's fine if you can deliver the goods. But what happens if you go 6-6 this year and get left out of the bowl picture?

You've whipped up the crowd and this is all you can deliver? And on top of it all, you're the preseason pick to be jackass of the year with even more embarrassment for Tennessee.

After all, you haven't coached a single game yet and already had how many NCAA infractions? Not to mention you've been called a liar by your own athletic director how many times? You've already had to apologize for how many stupid statements and bad judgments?

You can only imagine the response we expect from you when Urban Meyer runs you over by 45 points. Not to mention what will happen when you get slapped by Nick Saban after he's stolen yet another recruit from Tennessee. We can hardly wait!

We think Tennessee will find out early what Al Davis already knows; you're a punk kid that needs to have the silver spoon taken from your mouth and shoved into a new anatomy section.

I have Tennessee penciled in with five guaranteed wins that not even Lane Kiffin should blow with the talent he's inherited.

Western Kentucky is a push over and a four-win UCLA team should buckle against the Vols, as should the pitiful Ohio University team. The Memphis team isn't in the SEC's caliber and Vandy has lost too many play-makers in my opinion to win. 

With this cream-puff schedule, he only has to beat two marginal teams, such as Kentucky, South Carolina or Auburn to get to 7-5. And in all seriousness, I don't see him winning more than one against any of those three.

Do I see Kiffin upsetting a higher ranked team this year? Not Georgia, who is beatable and rebuilding but still ahead of Tennessee. I certainly don't see them upsetting Florida, Alabama or Ole Miss.

With Tennessee playing five games that a team coached by Daffy Duck couldn't lose to, that only leaves seven real games. Kiffin will have earned his stripes if he can beat three of those seven teams. If he can do a mediocre job of winning two of them and he won't inflame the fan-base.

Unfortunately for all loud mouths, there comes a put up or shut up moment. If he can't put up, expect Tennessee to can him really early.