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Article: The Half Monte: Kiffin more like Carroll than dad; Lane Kiffin is Monte Kiffin's son and boss but has been influenced more as a football coach by Southern Cal's leader.(SPORTS)(JIM SOUHAN)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- March 29, 2009
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Byline: JIM SOUHAN; STAFF WRITER
Lane Kiffin has stolen coaches and recruits from his rivals, offended the best football programs in the country, and lured his father away from the best assistant coaching job in the NFL to work for a 33-year-old who's never run a college program before. What's a nice boy from Bloomington doing in a predicament like this? And what is his father, Monte, thinking -- giving up the highest assistant coaching salary in the NFL, and his beach house near Tampa, to work for his son in Knoxville, Tenn.?
`'It never crossed my mind that I'd end up here," said Monte Kiffin, who was Vikings linebackers coach when Lane was playing for ...