Tony Gerdeman takes a look at how each Big Ten team could be doing if it had the good fortune of Lane Kiffin's career path.
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Unfortunate Big Ten is Bland Without Kiffin Luck? By Tony Gerdeman
The semi-recent news of Lane Kiffin?s ascension to the USC throne has left me wondering if there has been anybody anywhere who ever got somewhere so prominent through little more than happenstance.
It took Pete Carroll 27 years of coaching to land the job at USC, and all Lane Kiffin had to do to get the same job was get fired by Al Davis for being too unseemly for even Davis to deal with, then get hired by Tennessee because they needed a guy who could match hours on the recruiting trail with the rest of the SEC head coaches, then lead the Vols to a six-loss season, and then have the NCAA hammer be brandished in Pete Carroll?s rearview mirror.
If that's not a resume fit for a college football dynasty, I don't know what is.
Kiffin's meteoric rise from twice being a first-year head coach to now being given Pete Carroll's Hollywood bungalow would be like seeing a carnie who runs the Scrambler during the summer get offered the job of driving the Madden Cruiser full time, and then a year after taking that job, he gets the job as some major city's director of mass transit. Nevermind that on thirteen different occasions the Madden Cruiser was cited for various moving violations, as well as rampant gypsy intimidation.
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This whole Kiffin saga had me wondering what life would be like if each of the teams in the Big Ten were as outrageously fortunate over the past few years as Lane Kiffin has been.
So without further adieu, let's take a look at how each of the teams in the Big Ten would be forever altered if only they were as lucky as Lane Kiffin.
Michigan State
After winning his second Heisman Trophy following the 2008 season, quarterback Brian Hoyer would have been personally invited to the White House to have lunch with the President. And why shouldn't Hoyer be invited? After all, it was President John L. Smith who first recruited Hoyer to Michigan State way back in 2003. Sadly, I wouldn't expect a second term for President L. Smith because--as he noted during an uncomfortable State of the Union Address, his supporters are supporting their tails off, and the Cabinet is screwing it up!
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