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Lane ''freaking''Kiffin on the Herd

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9 months ago

You know what soothed my soul a little? The call first to his SR's high school coach and then the personal call to Kif from SR's dad. That will put a muzzle on the PSU screamers... yes I read them. I should have never gone over there. But gawd this makes me feel so much better now.
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Helen of Troy said...
let me ask the hubby.....
Edit: I'm probably old enough to be your older older sister...

1. just because there's a goalie doesn't mean you can't score
2. the older the berry the sweeter the juice!

just kidding, don't hurt me
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SdotK said...
1. just because there's a goalie doesn't mean you can't score
2. the older the berry the sweeter the juice!

just kidding, don't hurt me

hehe
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SdotK said...
1. just because there's a goalie doesn't mean you can't score
2. the older the berry the sweeter the juice!

just kidding, don't hurt me
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9 months ago

NBTrojanPres said...
I mentioned this on TOS, but for those not there....
Fletcher is a very under appreciated alumni during the recruiting process. His jet has been used to fly the coaches all over the country right before NSD helping lock down kids such as Agholor, Williams and Dawson. The latter two were really influenced by it and Kiff & Co. even used the jet to fly to Leonard Willins dad in jail (!!) the day before NSD. Only coaches who ever visited his dad during the recruiting process and what won Leonard over from what Kiffin said. His jet is why they can be at so many places in the same day and at no cost to USC. I should see him at the gym on Friday and shall thank him from all of us.

As I recall, a decade ago we would have a private jet pick up a recruit (Chris Leak?). I think the NCAA now has rules to prohibit that. So, the coaches fly in.
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901Club said...
As I recall, a decade ago we would have a private jet pick up a recruit (Chris Leak?). I think the NCAA now has rules to prohibit that. So, the coaches fly in.

That would make sense to me. I could see where picking up a recruit in a jet would be construed as the dreaded "extra benefit" because it's not something you'd do for a typical student. A coach, on the other hand, is a paid employee; they should be able to travel in whatever manner the university (and its boosters) can afford.

This post was edited by sc85sis on 8/1/2012 at 8:33 PM
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9 months ago

I do have some exclusive pictures from inside the USC jet.
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9 months ago

Great quote from the interview:
http://www.fanfeedr.com/ncaa-football/usc-trojans?id=864bd2c5-d158-5930-933f-8a977fd0e1d0
After studying his roster and Penn State's, Kiffin settled on Silas Redd as the Trojans' only target. After a quick conversation, a mutual interest was established. And the game was on.
"I was at the Pac-12 meetings. We were pretty excited about that. We called his dad to see if that was OK and he said yes. So I picked up the phone in true SC fashion, called one of our great donors -- Ted Jones of Fletcher-Jones Mercedes. I called him and we were at the Soho House for the Pac-12 dinner and he said 'Let me guess, you're calling about Silas. Where you at?'
"So he sent his big old Mercedes jet which was in Vegas to pick us up in L.A. We got done with the Pac-12 meetings and flew to, I don't even know, White Plains, N.Y. Myself, my dad, our running back coach, our O-Line coach. We called Coach [Orgeron], he was in Louisiana, and he got on a plane. Our DB coach was in Nebraska; he got on a plane.
"Only two we couldn't get ... we were trying to get our quarterback coach, but he was in Mexico, because everybody was on vacation. And our receivers coach was on a cruise. So we tried to get a helicopter to go get him -- Tee Martin -- but they wouldn't let us do it."
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