Well, after the Sooners game, Kiffen stalked down to the end of the field where the Ol Miss fans were seated, threw his hands in the air and then pointed at the ground--As if to say (according to some analysts anyway) "I'm staying right here!"...Hell, one tool on Rivals (in another eg of why I DON'T LIKE OR FOLLOW them, and though I do sometimes check them out for a few moments, check on a few of their latest "stronger", sometimes even outrageous claims, I will NEVER give them a "Like", nor join their "Subscriber" list) one of their smarmy smiling idiots even repeatedly reported Lane as declaring right out loud,( "I'm staying right here!", just entirely based on that gesture.
Now, ignoring the blatant irresponsible inaccuracy of converting a gesture to an actual QUOTED REMARK, I don't know if that was just Lane excited and in the moment, an impulsive expression of his feelings right then, or WHAT, but as I said earlier, I already HAD this growing feelimg that he just wasn't leaning towards ultimately coming over to Florida in ANY event--but as I say these guys on Rivals went on gleefully at some length about how they "wouldn't be at all surprised" if Lane wasn't getting a gigantic KICK out of stringing UF along with the sole intention of "in effect trolling an SEC rival", doing damage to a lateral program that has damaged the Rebels before and will no doubt be in position to do so again, soon and in the future...That he "doesn't owe them or anyone ELSE in the SEC anything" but his supposed continued manipulative efforts to seize on opportunities to hurt them in whatever ways they offer him the opportunity to DO so...
SO: IS he f*cking with us that way--purposefully drawing this out with the intention of maximizing its negative impact on our program's health, happiness and FUTURE?
I would HOPE that the moment he was SURE he was staying where he was, for the health and well-being of BOTH programs and their fans he would simply say so and let both (not to mention himself and his own family--along with a basic sense of honor and decency, if anything like that is left in the game) properly MOVE on, with basic dignity intact on all fronts.
Or am I fooling myself? Or is he just a selfish and vindictive prick--and exactly why we want and need him on OUR side? OUR "vindictive prick".
I don't know--but I just can't get real jazzed about most of the REST of the bunch whose names are in the blender for consideration if It ISN'T gonna be Lane.
The more I consider the matter in this "ultimately CYNICAL" light, the more I myself come around to YOUR point,
@Escambia94, :
Maybe we just say "To HELL with EVERYONE!" (INCLUDING a revealed vindictive manipulator thus unmasked in Kiffen) and just go out and sign Gruden after all...If it were in January after being left standing alone at both the CFB hiring AND recruiting alters, it MIGHT BE our OWN "vindictive turn around"--a chance to do something REALLY different with a Coach who brings his own "aggressively NASTY approach" to extreme, innovatively visionary offensive (in every WAY) football...and if it came down to it (especially in the above way), we'd for SURE take great pleasure in running it UP on the Rebels every chance we got--"Hang half a hunnert on 'em!" on OUR way to all the NATTYS Lane WOULDN'T be getting, regardless of HOW comfortable he might be finishing a mainly irrelevant career in Mississippi.
(Yeah, you're damn RIGHT how angry I'd be to learn it was all an effort to screw us maximally after all, as he did what he KNEW he meant to do all along, just as the Rivals guys and others are suggesting were (and are) his true intentions and motives all along).
I don't know if Gruden even has any SHOT at being offered the UF Head Coaching job.
Not yet.
Not with Strickliin as our AD.
But then again, things could all be sitting bathed in a different light by JANUARY--and those powerful backroom boosters might bring a new attitude, new pressure to bear if they see all this as I am now describing here by then.
