Tennessee football

• Lane Kiffin offered QB Matt Barkley a scholarship . . . when he was a freshman in high school. Barkley's now a true freshman at USC and, so far, has just barely lost the starting job to sophomore Aaron Corp. As a true freshman. At USC. Kiffin apparently knows what he's looking for. Meanwhile, JuCo QB Nick Lamaison, who threw for more than 3,500 yards and 35 TDs last season for Mt. San Antonio college in Walnut, CA, is hoping to play for Tennessee this fall.
• GVX's weekly coaching feature this weekend was on Lance Thompson. GVX also has a feature on signee Marsalis Teague, who can't wait to play for the Kiffin Chimera.
• We Vol fans/media are certainly fortunate to have not one, but three media-friendly coaches in Bruce Pearl, Pat Summitt, and Lane Kiffin.

Tennessee basketball

• The Sporting News has a Q&A with Tyler Smith, who's still pondering whether to go pro. Also, I've recently been informed that it's "Sporting News" and not "The Sporting News," so henceforth I shall refer to them as "The Sporting News" out of spite rather than ignorance. ;-)
  

SEC

• The SEC indeed decides to handcuff itself and enforce a limit of three for Whittling Season. No schools can give out more than 25 schoarships in any given year, but many SEC teams accepted letters of intent for many more than 25, including Ole Miss, who this year signed 37 players and needs to bag 12. So the SEC decided to fix this by prohibiting no more than 28 LOIs. The rest of the conferences are now free to follow our lead for a couple of years until their own excess births their own prohibition.
• Watch out for Ole Miss this season . . .
• . . . but yeah, nobody's denying Florida the NC this year.