Talking points: Lane Kiffin will Say Anything
Tennessee football
- Tennessee has offered Lakewood, California QB Jesse Scroggins. They offered Cincinnati, Ohio QB Andrew Hendrix last week. It might mean that Heaps ain't coming. Blake Bell has already committed elsewhere.
- Yeah, so Eddie Gran got kicked out of Pahokee High School on a recruiting trip because Lane Kiffin's prior apology for insulting the entire community wasn't good enough for Pahokee principal Ariel Alejo, who just so happens to be a huge Florida fan as evidenced by the Gator logo on his official bio page as well as named after a cartoon mermaid. For what it's worth, the coach there seems to be mature about the whole matter, saying that he just wants to win and send kids to college and that "Blackballing a school is not conducive to doing that." Good for him. Team Speed Kills says that Kiffin broke a couple of unwritten rules and that his actions show that he really knows very little about recruiting. I don't know. I'm imagining a high schooler looking longingly out the window at the fuss going on in the front yard created by the over-bearing parent trying to run off the undesirable boyfriend, thus making him even more desirable.
- Tennessee beat out Georgia and Florida for Miami offensive lineman Jose Jose, which conjured up a memory for the Vol Historian of playing Wasington State QB Samoa Samoa in 1980. Samoa Samoa could throw with either hand, prompting Johnny Majors to call him "amphibious." That there's good stuff.
SEC football
- Fro-man Malcolm Gladwell is everywhere, this time talking about how underdogs reap rewards from high-risk strategies.
NCAA football
- Mike Leach, who is not a bitter lawyer (is there any other kind), wants a 64-team playoff, which Spencer Hall likens to a Mortal Kombat death tournament for college football teams.
- Clay Travis has his take on the potential class action by NCAA players against EA Sports and says Sam Keller and his attorneys have put the NCAA in a quandry. At the end of the day, though, the players just get screwed again, as the attorneys will get millions as 1/3 of the entire pie, and the players will each get a coupon for a free game that no longer has any value whatsoever because it no longer features any implied-identities.
- Yahoo! Sports is reporting that USC coach Tim Floyd paid OJ Mayo
$5k$1k to play for the Trojans. Bruins Nation has a completely unbiased analysis. - Black Shoe Diaries on FSU's and Bobby Bowden's manuevering to keep up with Joe Paterno in the all-time win column.
- That chick who's allegedly extorting Rick Pitino? Indicted.
- Smart Football continues its look at the Triple Shoot. Somebody shield hooper's eyes. And get a bucket. Quick.
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So OJ got $5000 or $1000 ?
Just make it $50,000.
Jealousy is the thread that holds TET threads together!
by The Voice of Reason on May 13, 2009 10:25 AM EDT reply actions
It's $1k
Fixed now. Thanks.
Rocky Top Talk
by Joel Hollingsworth on May 13, 2009 10:40 AM EDT up reply actions
Yep. That's the offense I remember and hate so well.
I wonder how long it took the guy to find video of it run against a defense where the end always crashes in toward the guard instead of containing the motion man.
Welcome to the death spiral of Wyoming football. Too bad for UT that Joe Glenn didn’t run this beast.

Most down in Fla don’t think jose had real offers from the Gators or Dawgs. I expect Tennessee to reject this commitment if he doesn’t seriously improve. Some suggest it’s a ploy to get in better with BookerT, since their relations with Miami have been strained at best.
there are kids who show up like that
as freshmen all the time. a lot of times in high school, simply being a lot bigger an heavier is enough to be a standout in the line. unless he has zero work ethic, it will only be a matter of months of getting his butt kicked by a major college football strength and conditioning program before he will look like a different guy entirely.
The Dual Threat, Official Enforcer/Stat Geek of MCM.
We'll have to see.
The articles talking about him all seem to acknowledge a weight problem, and he even states that he’s trying to lose weight. I like that he’s excited about having more endurance and strength since dropping from 355ish to 330ish. If he gets down to about 310, he should be in fine shape for line play.
by David Hooper on May 13, 2009 9:20 PM EDT up reply actions

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