Just A Rant

How does Lane Kiffen keep getting jobs?

Kiffen has been a bonehead his entire career and he has made poor choices left and right but last night with his team. Florida Atlantic University, up over Marshall 30-23 with 14 seconds left in the game and FAU with the ball on 4^th down and on their own 24-yard line and punting.

In what should have been a deep low punt down the center, forcing Marshall’s punt returner to waste time running to the sideline, instead Kiffen orders his punter to run out the back of the end zone giving up a safety and only taking 4 seconds off of the clock. Kiffen’s explanation was that he didn’t want Marshall to block the punt. OK, could be sound logic but it isn’t.

First- In Marshall’s first 8 games this year they have no blocked punts

Second- The play only took 4 seconds and Marshall got the ball back

Third- Most important and the “WTF?” moment

FAU was a 6.5-point favorite over Marshall so by giving up the safety FAU came in under the spread in what could appear as a point shaving decision.

Kiffen, after the game, took to Twitter about the score and it messing with the point spread but later claimed he didn't know about the spread until a friend texted him after the game. A FAU representative said that Kiffen was just joking with his Tweet and an NCAA spokeswoman said they are aware of the situation but said that the school is in the best position to provide comment.

I am not saying that Kiffen is in a point shaving scandal but no matter what he said coaches know the spread and for some reason decided to mess with it. He is not a good person, he has shown bad judgement through his career and he is a complete jerk and likes to throw shade at prior employers. If it turns out this was a conscious decision by him with the intent to affect the final score in a negative way I hope he gets the punishment he deserves (fired and banned from NCAA & NFL).