Report: Kliff Kingsbury may resign from USC job to pursue NFL options
With USC unwilling to allow offensive coordinator Kliff Kingsbury to interview for NFL jobs, he may take a drastic step to ensure he gets the opportunity.
According to Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk, Kingsbury is considering resigning his position at USC — which he took up only a month ago — in order to explore opportunities at the NFL level.
Blocked by A.D. Lynn Swann from interviewing for Jets and Cardinals head-coaching jobs, there's a chance USC offensive coordinator Kliff Kingbury will resign so that he can explore NFL opportunities. Story coming at PFT.
— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) January 5, 2019
Both the New York Jets and Arizona Cardinals wanted to speak to Kingsbury about their head coaching vacancies, but under a newly-enforced NFL rule, required approval from USC athletic director Lynn Swann to speak to Kingsbury. Swann refused to grant it, and Kingsbury is apparently considering quitting as a result.
Such a move would come with some risk for Kingsbury, but given the hype he’s received, he’d have a good chance of landing an offensive coordinator job at the NFL level, even if he doesn’t get a head coaching opportunity. In the end, it’s USC who will come out the biggest loser in that scenario.
