Kiffin is a great OC and won a conference title his first year at FAU. He also beat Oregon in 2011, so there's a ranked win off the top of my head. I'm not sure what the fuck Taggart ever did. He did a good jerb at WKU, I guess.
For some reason, I guess because who cares about USF, people forget that Taggart was close to being fired by USF. He was 6-18 his first two years. He lost to an FCS team by 32. He hired Paul Wulff as his OC. I feel like that last one can't be emphasized enough. They lost by 18 to the Maryland team that got Edsell fired in year 3. He only got saved by Tom Allen's defense and switching to the most basic spread after his players basically begged him to. Turns out you can run basic spread with Quinton Flowers and Marlon Mack and do pretty well in the American. Then people pegged him as some offensive genius for TEH GULF COAST OFFENSE and Oregon hired him for CROOTIN SHOES and that was that.
Also, it's really funny right now to watch all the FSU fans who blamed all of Taggart's ineptitude on JIMBO'S offensive line CROOTIN now say that he completely sucked and deserved to be fired after 21 games.