Lane Kiffin quit his job as Tennessee head football coach to take a job with the University of Southern California. This comes after just one season with the VOLS.
A USC athletics spokesperson announced Tuesday afternoon that Kiffin will be hired as head football coach.
Kiffin was hired to replace Pete Carroll, who took the coach’s job at the Seattle Seahawks.
"This was not an easy decision. It's something that happened very quick," Kiffin said in a press conference. "The support has been unbelievable here. I really believe this is probably the only place I would have left here to go, was to go to Southern Cal."
"I know that I can walk out of here and say this, 'We've been here for 14 months and there's not one day that I didn't give everything I had to the Tennessee football program,'" he said. "And I know, just leaving that team room, and looking around and seeing the players coming in on this roster and what's going on with their development, that we're leaving here, 14 months later, a lot better team than we were 14 months ago."
Kiffin was hired in November 2008 to replace Phillip Fulmer the former head coach at UT.
Shortly after the press conference a large crowd of angry students and fans gathered on the UT campus. They became unruly and attempted to enter the football offices, demanding to confront Kiffin.
Campus police were able to keep them from entering the building. The fuse had been lit and shortly thereafter the group set fire to a mattress in the street as they shouted epithets.
Next the fans knocked down a fence on Johnny Majors Blvd. to Neyland Stadium. Next they attempted to enter the stadium, but failed.
The large stone bolder on campus became the focus of numerous verbal attacks against Kiffin for his early, swift and damaging departure.
No one was hurt in the demonstration.

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