Lane Kiffin has been something of a lightning rod in his college coaching career, including being both loved and hated by his own teams’ fans in his head coaching opportunities at Tennessee and Southern Cal.
Alabama fans – who hated Lane Kiffin when he was head coach at Tennessee – have nothing but love for the Crimson Tide quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator after his first year at Bama. Kiffin took an unlikely fifth-year senior who had been nothing but a mop-up player and turned Blake Sims into a record-setting passer who was Most Valuable Player in leading Alabama to a championship in the Southeastern Conference title game.