Year One was the getting-to-know-you period for USC athletic director Pat Haden and football coach Lane Kiffin. The stakes were low, kind of like a first date at a coffee house in the middle of the afternoon.
Haden learned how Kiffin coaches (which he later professed admiration for), and Kiffin learned how serious Haden is about cleaning up the mess around Heritage Hall before the NCAA does it for them (again).
Year Two, which starts bright and early Tuesday morning with the start of spring football, gets a bit more serious. It figures to start the evaluation period.
With the NCAA investigators continuing to sniff around Kiffin's one whirlwind season at Tennessee, the last thing he can afford is another five-loss (or worse) season while coaching the Trojans.
