by Michelle Richardson

Lane Kiffin firing at USC: What took you so long USC? People are finally finding out about former USC head coach Lane Kiffin for what he is, he’s a charlatan and he has not had any success anywhere he’s gone. People called former Raiders owner Al Davis crazy when he hired him, “what was he thinking he’s crazy” crazy alright, Al Davis crazy like a fox. Davis saw him for the charlatan for who he was and Kiffin has been getting jobs on the strength of his father Monte Kiffin.

Monte is an excellent defensive coordinator and once his father is gone from him Lane Kiffin he would be a worse head coach he has no people skills and it’s his time, it was just Kiffin’s time. I don’t ever see him ever getting another coaching job in the pros and if he gets a job it will never be a head coaching job. He might get another coaching job but it won’t be a head coaching job. I don’t necessarily see him getting another head coaching job in the college ranks either.

When he first came out everybody was saying, “he’s Monte Kiffin’s son, he’s Monte Kiffin’s son”, and I always hate that because I know what Monte could do. You got to earn, got to earn your respect, you can’t live off your father’s respect. That goes for anything you do, if you sing, if you play basketball, if you play football, no matter what you do. I don’t want to hear about who your parents are I want to know what you could do.

Oaklahoma 35 Norte Dame 21: The Fighting Irish (3-2) have a lot of problems and the newness of the new head coach has worn off and you got to realize that Norte Dame but the Fighting Irish took their fight to Oklahoma last year and beat the Sooners on their own turf. Saturday was a little payback by the Sooners actually a lot of pay back and the Sooners did it with retribution. Sooners head coach Bob Stoops gets revenge if you’ve beaten him.

This has been something that he’s been chewing on since that loss last season and he took the opportunity to make good on it this season with a win over the Fighting Irish. Brian Kelly and the Fighting Irish came in and stole the victory away last year so this year Stoops was going to make sure it was not going to happen. Three turnovers committed by the Irish and turnovers was the big thing and as we said you got to have the ball to score points.

The Irish gave up the points quite a bit and those turnovers came from reach over interceptions, Fighting Irish quarterback Tommy Rees went 9-24, 104 yards and two touchdowns. He did throw two TD’s but he threw three interceptions as opposed to Sooners quarterback Blake Bell. Bell was pretty efficient he went 22-30 for 232 yards and two touchdowns. The Sooners weren’t a powerhouse on the ground but they were efficient in Saturday’s duel with the Fighting Irish.

Alabama shuts out Ole Miss 25-0: The Crimson Tide are going real well now and they could win three in a row with three national championships. It’s really on the Tide to win back, to back, to back. It’s on the Crimson Tide head coach Nick Saban. The Crimson Tide are pretty much running NCAA college football.

If you look at it the Crimson Tide are just basically playing for the post season and they have to keep on being the buzz saw that they are in order to get back to the national championships. The way their playing I don’t see anybody else challenging. Georgia took care of LSU and that could be closest team that could give Alabama problems.

So it’s going to be interesting when the Tide gets closer to the heart of the NCAA schedule when they get to their NCAA title game. Like I said the ball is in Alabama’s hands and I don’t see anybody else taking it away from the Crimson Tide. I’d love to see a game like Oregon and Alabama and right now everything except their opponent is up for grabs.

Michelle Richardson covers the NCAA for Sportstalk Radio