Angry Volunteer mob pursues Lane Kiffin

There’s no good way for coach who’s only spent one season at a tradition rich SEC school to quit his job in favor of another one. That goes double when it’s a coach who had his fair share of gaffes and missteps during his brief stay.

So is it any surprise that during Lane Kiffin’s press conference to announce he’s leaving Tennessee to take over at USC that an angry mob assembled in the building? Here’s the proof:

It also looks like the same mob did some landscaping around Knoxville during the night:

What would have happened if this scorned bunch of Volunteer fans had actually gotten their paws on Kiffin? I suspect it would have looked a lot like Homer Stokes being carted out of the building in “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”:

In the wake of all this, there’s message board fodder that Phil Fulmer might actually be a candidate to return to Tennessee. Yeah, that tells you all you need to know about the nutcases who inhabit college football message boards. But if that crazy scenario were to unfold, I guess Fulmer would be playing the role of Pappy O’Daniel to Lane Kiffin’s Homer.

Pappy O'Fulmer?