Feb 5, 2010
Funny
Lane Kiffin is funny. He’s funny because he is so god a manipulating the media. He gets free media coverage better than any other coach in college football. Yesterday Lane Kiffin offered a scholarship to a 13 year old. Here’s the article from ESPN if you want to read it. The best part about all of this is that ESPN and just about every other major news source picked it up and will talk about it and discuss it for the next 2-3 days. That means Lane Kiffin and USC will be repeated at least a million more times in the next 2-3 days. Kiffin is brilliant. College football is over right now, but everyone is talking about USC. They aren’t talking about the signings that they made, no they are talking about the fact that Kiffin signed a 13 year old.
For Kiffin though it doesn’t really matter, in the end offering a scholarship and giving an actual scholarship are two different things. If the kid turns out to be the real deal, then USC will have the first shot at him. If he doesn’t then it is easy for USC to walk away and just say they thought it was in good fun. Kiffin may not be liked by many, but you have to respect the fact that he is better than Mike Kryzewski of Duke at getting free publicity.
