Trojan Blast published 1/14/2010

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🗓️ 14 January 2010

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

College football reporter Bruce Feldman broke the story of Lane Kiffin accepting the head coaching position at USC. In this Trojan Blast we talk to Feldman about how this shocking hire went down, what the reaction has been so far, the return of Ed Orgeron and some of the recent controversy surrounding this hire.

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0:00.0	Hello Trojan fans and welcome to the Trojan Blast. Today is January 14th, 2010 and even
0:07.7	though we already did a Parrastyle podcast this week we wanted to get a special edition in and we call it a Trojan blast and talk with
0:13.9	ESPNs Bruce Feldman who actually broke the story that USC was going to hire
0:19.0	a surprise hire Lane Kiffin as the new head coach of the Trojans.
0:24.2	Welcome, Bruce, how you doing?
0:26.3	I'm good, Ryan.
0:27.3	It's been a chaotic week for everybody,
0:29.1	and I'm sure especially so for Trojans.
0:31.4	Crazy, crazy times. Well, you were actually down in Orlando when a lot of this stuff was going down with
0:36.3	Pete Carroll, right?
0:37.3	Or did you get down there yet?
0:38.3	What was the story?
0:39.3	There was a coaches convention?
0:40.3	The American football coaches convention was in Orlando this year and so I was down there from Sunday till
0:47.1	till late Wednesday night and what was really
0:50.8	crazy about this was I ran into Monte Kiffin around 4.30 Eastern time and talked for
0:57.7	talk to him for a little bit and then ended up going out to dinner and at about 6 o'clock I got a 6 o'clock eastern I get a call from a
1:07.2	source I have at Tennessee who just said Lane's getting the job and I said what job he said the USC job and it just shocked me because at that point nobody had been talking about Lane and then you know I followed it up and he explained to me you know what was going you know how this was all going to go down on Tennessee side and and then you know was able to talk to some folks at
1:30.4	S.C. and it just it blew me away quite honestly to see you know but the big
1:35.1	thread here is you know whether it's Mike Riley or the names Jack Del Rio come
1:39.5	up or you know one point Jeff point uh... Jeff Fisher
1:42.5	link and the guy's been here and the power brokers here know him and obviously
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