Lane Kiffin knew he was never a candidate for Tennessee’s vacant head coaching job well before Jeremy Pruitt was hired to replace Butch Jones. Kiffin isn’t overly fond of even addressing the possibility of returning to Knoxville, Tenn.
“I’m not really big on questions that don’t matter because they didn’t happen,” said Kiffin, who is the head coach at Florida Atlantic. “When it first opened, the A.D. there, John Currie, talked to Jimmy Sexton and John said he had zero interest in even speaking with me. At that point, I didn’t think about it anymore. There was no point to.