Lane Kiffin Trolls the Tennessee Vols Like an Insecure Ex-Girlfriend

Alabama Crimson Tide Offensive Coordinator Lane Kiffin can’t stop trolling the Tennessee Volunteers. Like an insecure ex, he did it again on Twitter Monday.

Have you ever had that girlfriend, or boyfriend, who decided to break up with you? You were so upset about it for so long, and he or she told you to get over it and move on.

A few years later, you have moved on. You’re in another relationship. Things aren’t perfect, but you’re focused on yourself, your relationship, and your future. At that very point, the ex who broke up with you does everything possible to get back into your life.

And all they do is publicly attack you and criticize everything about you, even though they broke up with you and you moved on years ago.

The truth, as you later find out, is that they have suffered a setback in their life since the breakup, and now because of that setback, they can’t get over the fact that you’re over them, even if they were the ones who broke up with you.

That’s the exact situation Lane Kiffin is in with the Tennessee Vols right now. Tennessee football fans were rightfully upset when he bolted the program after one year in 2009 to take the head coaching job with the USC Trojans.

Kiffin spent the next couple of years throwing subtle shots at Tennessee fans and making fun of them because they couldn’t get over his departure. Of course, that was true, and it was also true the Mike Hamilton’s hire of Derek Dooley made things worse.

But by the time 2013 came, the Vols had hired Butch Jones and moved far beyond Lane Kiffin, who was fired that year by the USC Trojans.

Fast-forward to now, and the ex who is bitter about being in a lesser position, as an offensive coordinator instead of a head coach, can’t help but to throw shots at the school that he bailed out on seven years ago.

This was Kiffin’s tweet on Monday about Tennessee recruiting.

Of course, with such an elite growing level of talent, the Vols aren’t going to keep everybody in the state anymore. But they have had two Top 5 recruiting classes in three years and are also expected to have another Top 10 class next year, primarily with people from in the state, so most people in Knoxville are not too unhappy.

But Kiffin, riding the coat tails of the national championships that Saban and Pete Carroll have delivered him and bitter that he was a failed head coach whom the Vols moved on from, has to go back at the program he spurned.

It’s days like these, though, where all Tennessee football fans are actually grateful for the existence of Clay Travis, who does his job to defend the Vols against unnecessary attacks.

Just to add to the proof that Kiffin is an insecure ex, Travis retweeted one of his followers, who noted that Kiffin is lying about his age as well.

Kiffin was 33 when Tennessee hired him back in December of 2008, which was confirmed, so it’s pretty odd that based on his Twitter age he’d be only 36 now if he left seven years ago.

Of course, he’s actually 41.

Now we’re at the height of insecurity. Kiffin not only can’t stop trolling the Vols like a pathetic, insecure ex. He is now doing it while lying about his age. Can you get more pathetic and insecure than that?

Probably not. But three years after being fired, Kiffin hasn’t found that next head coaching job he so desperately wants. So even if he’s winning titles on the backs of Saban, he’s likely a little frustrated and bitter.

Meanwhile, Butch Jones, who is actually a head coach and hasn’t ever been fired, has bigger things to worry about. Most of Vol Nation is pretty confident in his recruiting.