Pro Stupid Lawsuit Rhetoric from Sports Media

Apparently it is beside the point that Tennessee Titan coach Jeff Fisher’s ex-employer scorned fueled lawsuit is frivolous and pathetic because USC head coach Lane Kiffin is a bad guy. Fox Sports’ Kalani Simpson:

This is someone saying loudly, publicly, "I don't like that guy." And, "This guy is such a jerk, I want it entered in some kind of court record."… it seems to be that maybe this is just who Lane Kiffin is, this is what he does, this is how people react to him, this is the chaos that seems to swirl constantly around him. This is what you get when you hire him, along with Monte, his much beloved football genius of an old man, and Ed Orgeron, perhaps the best recruiter on God's green Earth.

Yes, because that is the appropriate way to deal with someone who is a jerk, defined as such because he hired someone who worked for you, have it entered in a court record. Simpson goes on even more:

And he just splattered all over (new USC athletic director) Pat Haden's first week on the job…Look, Lane. Buddy. Sweetheart. You're at USC now. You don't have to try so hard…It's OK to tweak people, to be a little bit of an instigator. See Spurrier, Steve…It's not OK to actually get served with legal papers.

So, it is actually some type of unforgiveable crime for a pathetic lawsuit to be filed against them? Simply ridiculous is this line of opinion.

It’s even worse when the author is respectable, from CBS Sports’ Ray Ratto:

The Tennessee Titans-USC (read: Lane Kiffin) lawsuit is yet one more reminder why Kiffin's scorched-sport policy, while completely suicidal, is so much fun to watch…What we enjoy is Kiffin's absolutely mad dash to be the man he once shared a hatefest with -- Al Davis. ..In other words, he wants to be hated by all people not currently in his employ, and if he can manage it in time, to be feared by those in his employ. There is no other explanation for the number of ways he seeks out the disapproval of others, and how swiftly he achieves it.

Ratto dawns his psychiatrist hat and determines for us that Kiffin has some pathological need to be hated and that explains all of these nefarious transgressions, the latest of which was to hire someone?

What is it with USC coach Lane Kiffin and the vitriol that he endears in the sports media? Watching Pardon The Interruption this afternoon Tony Kornheiser, on an unrelated subject, had to mention that Kiffin had never done anything. Seemingly to further the idea that Kiffin does not deserve the job that he has. Every time Kiffin is mentioned there is some sports writer preening about the right way to do things. It is strange and unfortunate.