lane-kiffin Stories - The Smoking Musket
Tennessee Freshman Accused of Attempted Armed Robbery
Allegedly One of the players involved, Nu'Keese Richardson, was at the center of the recruiting controversy earlier this year when Lane Kiffin accused Florida's Urban Meyer of cheating on his recruiting of Richardson. Richardson hails from Pahokee, Fla. which earlier this week was the subject of a...
Texas, Tennessee Top Pay List for Assistants
USA Today is running series on coaches salaries in D-1 football this week, and according to the national daily, Texas and Tennessee have the biggest budgets for football assistants. Tennessee's nine assistants earn an average of more than $369,000; Texas' better than $327,000. The paper used...
Barking Carnival’s Rx for Bye Week Blues
No Paxil involved. As disappointed as we all are that Texas doesn't have a directional school from a dubious conference to pummel this weekend, you don't have to fall prey to the Bye Week Blues. You can do something productive like clean out your attic, take up the lute, or learn conversational...
Florida Gators -28 vs Tennessee Volunteers: Lay The Points
Florida enters this week's game with Tennessee a four-touchdown favorite. It's not enough. Florida coach Urban Meyer says he holds Tennessee defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin in great admiration -- his son, not so much. New Tennessee coach Lane Kiffin spent most of his first few months on the...
NCAA Investigating Tennessee Freshman Bryce Brown
Not surprising when you consider all of the clowns that took part in this circus. Lane Kiffin, Brown himself, and most interesting to me, a handler named Brian Butler. The following excerpt, if true, is bad news for players that are now playing the street agent game. It could also be bad news...
Bryce Brown picks Tennessee
Wow. God revealed his choice to him. As in: In God We Trust. On money. That he's being paid a lot of. "I asked God to reveal it to me," Brown said. "He gave me the sign. When I first went there (on official visit) I wasn't feeling it. I had a lot of concerns about Tennessee and the offense. When...
SEC Recruiting As a Blood Sport
As if having Nick Saban, Urban Meyer, Les Miles, Steve Spurrier, Bobby Petrino and Houston Nutt wasn't enough, it appears that the SEC has yet another wild card in play. Tennessee's new coach, Lane Kiffin added fuel to the off-season fire today at a breakfast to celebrate his first recruiting...
Tennessee to Hire Al Davis Reject
That's what ESPN is reporting. Lane Kiffin, who was 5-15 in a year and a half as the head man at the train wreck known as the Oakland Raiders, is slated to take Phil Fulmer's place at Tennessee. Kiffin, who is just a year older than Peyton Manning, supposedly will be announced as the Vols head...
BlogPoll Preseason College Football Top 25 Rankings: Why Limit Ourselves to Looking Ahead to 2012?
(Author’s Note: The rankings following the jump are intended in jest. Bring your sense of humor with you. You have been warned.) Our good friend (and soon-to-be conference coeval) Bill Connelly, of whom I made mention earlier today after he gave Mark Richt the credit due him (and thereby almost...
Matt Barkley and Lane Kiffin on the Radio 12/22-23
Barkley and Kiffin were both interviewed yesterday and this morning... Barkley on the Doug Gottlieb Show Barkley on the Dan Patrick Show Kiffin on the Herd All three are great interviews!
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