Welcome to the SEC, Lane Kiffin

Prediction for Saturday: South Carolina 10, Tennessee 9. Kiffin holds a Spurrier offense (which hasn't been relevant since the mid-90s) to just one touchdown.

Tennessee gets its third moral victory of the season.

 

My favorite coach has stirred up the NCAA again...

What, coed hookers aren't OK? Since when?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/09/sports/ncaafootball/09tennessee.html?hp

 

Wow. When you think about it, this has to be going on at a ton of places, right? Just not quite to the extent Tennessee has apparently taken it.

 

When I was in college, I took a couple classes with a voluptuous female who, by way of her job as a university tour guide, was often roped into serving as a special tour guide for football recruits.

She would often tell these stories of these fantastic parties that the recruits would attend. She never specifically offered up any comment that she was involved - and a girl who was a good friend of hers seemed to back that up - but many of those recruits walked away from that campus with more than a scholarship offer when their visits were over.

By senior year, she said something happened where the school learned about this, and the people leading the tours quickly became guys.

 

The battle between Kiffin and Calipari for the Probation Championship might be the best thing going in the SEC for the next few years.

 

"He Got Game" wasn't wrong.

 

Is Ed Orgeron still head of recruiting for Tenn? Sending groupies sounds like one of his schemes to subtly try and bend rules.

 

Marcus Lattimore, a running back who made an unofficial visit to Tennessee but said he would not enroll there, said ...
“I haven’t seen no other schools do that. It’s crazy.”
Adding:
“You don’t want to go to a college where they ain’t pretty,” Lattimore said.

Gary Willis, the father of Brandon Willis, said ... the girls met his son at Tennessee’s football camp last summer and told them that they would attend a game at Byrnes High, which generally has one of the best teams in the country. He said that the trip was not orchestrated by Tennessee’s coaches or staff.

“It was nothing planned on no one’s part,” Mr. Willis said.
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Poor kids and their parents, who can barely piece together sentences and likely live in houses with dirt floors, and eat off tables that could collapse at any minute, being preyed on and exploited.

 

Beginning of the end for Kiffin. You heard it here first.

 

Totally. Hell, when my dad was in high school, a college recruiting a teammate of his sent a car with girls to pick him up after practice. He went there obviously. This has been going on a LONG time.

 

“You don’t want to go to a college where they ain’t pretty,” Lattimore said.

This is just funny as hell.

 

The whole hostess scandal now has a nickname:

Tail-gate!