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surprised you didn't put this in the College Forum...who cares about the Raiders. anyway, great staffs hardly stay together very long these days...
After failing to land Southern California assistant head coach Steve Sarkisian, the Oakland Raiders and Lane Kiffin have completed the deal to hire the USC offensive coordinator as Oakland's head coach.
Kiffin signed the five-year deal to be Art S 's replacement on Monday night, and a press conference to announce the signing is scheduled for 1 p.m. in Oakland (4 p.m. ET) on Tuesday.
Late last week, Kiffin was offered the offensive coordinator job under Sarkisian. But Sarkisian turned down Oakland's offer, and the Raiders were left scrambling.
On Sunday, Raiders owner Al Davis reached out again to Kiffin, son of Bucs defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin. Kiffin flew to Oakland Sunday night and spent all day Monday talking to Davis. As the evening approached, negotiations for a contract started and concluded quickly.
The 31-year-old Kiffin has been a six-year member of Pete Carroll's staff. Carroll hired him to coach tight ends in 2001. Kiffin switched to coaching wide receivers in 2002. In 2004, Kiffin took over passing game coordinator duties. Kiffin was then promoted to offensive coordinator in 2005. He also had recruiting coordinator responsibilities.
Davis has a long history of hiring young, offensive-minded head coaches and he particularly likes offensive play-callers. Kiffin has done that at the highest level of college football for the past few years. He's worked with top NFL draft prospects such as wide receiver Dwayne Jarrett and former Lions first-round pick Mike Williams, another wideout.
Kiffin spent the 2000 season in Jacksonville as a defensive quality control coach working with defensive backs.
As a player, Kiffin was a quarterback for Fresno State from 1994 to 1996. He was a three-sport high school star in Bloomington, Minn. He started his coaching career after college working as a grad assistant at Fresno State.
Kiffin is expected to keep Rob Ryan as his defensive coordinator.
John Clayton is a senior writer for ESPN.com.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2739645
surprised you didn't put this in the College Forum...who cares about the Raiders. anyway, great staffs hardly stay together very long these days...
He's 31? Wow
yep, young.
Let's start a pool on how long it takes JGW to pick the Raiders to go the the Super Bowl next season.
...the Raiders are going to the SuperBowl next year. so 12 minutes.
i almost did. i'll wait until usc makes some sort of announcement on the future.surprised you didn't put this in the College Forum...who cares about the Raiders. anyway, great staffs hardly stay together very long these days...
right now, i'm just happy that sarkisian is around. i think the offense will be fine. i also think someone like ken norton can step in as recruiting coordinator (just like kiffin did for coach o).
good luck to kiffin. he has his work cut out for him.
"The former Fresno State quarterback is younger than at least nine players who finished the season with Oakland during its NFL-worst 2-14 campaign, including defensive tackle Warren Sapp, fullback Zack Crockett and receiver Alvis Whitted."
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-...adlines-sports
Talk about desperate.
they need offensive help and by drafting russell if he lives up to standards then the raiders wil have a vast;y improved o even with a rook at QB and a o line
its too bad though, i wanted ryan to get the job
I wanted Ryan to get it, too.
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