It took chutzpah for Lane Kiffin to ditch Knoxville after just 14
months and a half-dozen-or-so secondary violations, but Coach
Derp has nothing on a couple of recent NFL refugees who took one
look at their new surroundings and darted right back to the NFL Fortress
of Solitude.

Improbable departure
the first:

George Edwards' tenure as the Florida Gators defensive coordinator
sure didn't last long.

Less than a month after joining Urban Meyer's staff, Edwards left one
of the nation's top college programs on Thursday to become the Buffalo
Bills defensive coordinator and be reunited with newly hired head coach
Chan Gailey.

Improbable departure
the second:

Ron Turner wasn't out of the NFL
for long.

Four weeks after becoming the offensive coordinator at Stanford,
Turner is back in the league, accepting a job on the Colts'
staff. It is believed Turner will become the wide receivers coach, but
the team had yet to make an announcement.

Way to reach for the creative ledes, guys.

Anyway, it's possible that the spurned schools got off easy here:
these guys ditched Gainesville and Palo Alto for Indianapolis and
Buffalo. Also, Turner went from offensive coordinator to wide receivers
coach. They could be in the first stages of syphilitic dementia.
(Kidding! Don't send lawyers. Just take penicillin. Or don't, because I
didn't mention it at all.)

If I was a guy who wrote single-sentence paragraphs and had a Very
Serious Photo I'd probably go on about the decline of society here
but...
actually, isn't this kind of a societal decline? Surely these guys did
not take jobs intending to leave almost before a two-week notice could
even be provided. And yet, there they go.

It probably comes down to money-even Florida's unlikely to shell out
what an NFL team will for a coordinator and Stanford is not exactly
paying top dollar-just like everything does, but in my day people waited
around for 14 long months before leaving their university in a lurch
with nothing to do but riot
festively and draw
penises on rocks (not that you have to be told, but that is as NSFW as
a cave painting gets).

Kids these days have no respect, I tell you. No respect at all.

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