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David Reaves interviewed in NCAA invesitgation

Lane Kiffin left brother-in-law David Reaves behind when he left Knoxville for the West Coast...will Reaves come back to bite him in an NCAA investigation?

Perhaps the most interesting and potentially most important figure in this whole NCAA investigation is David Reaves, Kiffin's brother-in-law and QB coach here at UT, who found out about Lane's departure from Knoxville like the rest of us, and didn't get chosen to make the trip to Southern Cal with the rest of the assistant coaches.  Joe Schad reports this morning that Reaves was interviewed yesterday by the NCAA in the ongoing investigation of recruiting practices at Tennessee during the Kiffin Adminstration.  The conversation likely included Hostessgate, among other things.

There are several questions here, and they all start with "IF Kiffin did anything wrong...", but I think that's the assumption many are working with, including perhaps the NCAA.

So if Kiffin did anything wrong...is Reaves still upset about the way he was left out of Lane's midnight run?  How much information does Reaves have on Kiffin and the rest of the staff, and what percentage of that information also incriminates him?  Reaves is now the QB coach at New Mexico, which leads us to the question of how the NCAA will choose to punish any infractions that they discover - could they come down on Reaves, would they only come down on us, or is this all a larger attempt to get Kiffin and Orgeron, whose pictures have been on the wall at the NCAA's local post office for quite some time.

Our resident lawyer is on vacation, and I won't try to dive in to the legal ramifications of all of this.  But if he wanted to, how difficult could Reaves make life for Kiffin...and how difficult would that in turn make life for us?

And the answer is...we don't know.  But for that and all of these reasons...this makes me nervous.  Actual football, hurry up and get here.

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The punishment always goes back to the school

The “Kelvin Sampson Rule” is the only exception. So if the ’AA is talking to Reaves about shenanigans at UT - and assume for the sake of argument that Reaves does in fact tell the ’AA about some punishable shenanigans - any and all ramifications floweth back to Knoxvegas.

Respectfully,
Guest Lawyer*

*Though I’m sure neither resident nor guest would claim any semblance of expertise regarding ’AA matters.

...just apologize for not thanking me.

by kidbourbon on Aug 25, 2010 3:06 PM EDT reply actions  

This was my initial thought

We’ve seen it time and time again…individuals get off scott-free. It’s the institutions that take it on the hide. It would be interesting to know what Reaves had to say, but we as fans will probably support the opposite way of whatever is stated. That is, most of us want to hear the dirt so that we can demonize CLK even more (if that’s possible), and if he stays mum, we’re going to believe that he’s just covering family ties and that CLK is a guilty, cheating, dirtbag anyway.

by Aerobab on Aug 25, 2010 6:37 PM EDT up reply actions  

Just pretend the strikethroughs aren't there in the above post

They certainly weren’t intended to be there.

...just apologize for not thanking me.

by kidbourbon on Aug 25, 2010 3:07 PM EDT reply actions  

That's the one autoformat that irritates me the most.

Using dashes to place an aside in a sentence is a perfectly reasonable technique.

by David Hooper on Aug 25, 2010 4:42 PM EDT up reply actions  

The em dash is my favorite punctuational* tool.

I just have to be mindful that the comments section — a venue where you might not expect to receive such a draconian reaction to mere grammatical minutiae — will get very upset and do mean things if their seemingly claustrophobic em dashes are not given room to breathe on both sides.

*Not a word, but no reason it shouldn’t be.

...just apologize for not thanking me.

by kidbourbon on Aug 25, 2010 6:14 PM EDT reply actions  

You guys just cannot catch a break where Kiffin is concerned......

I am beginning to think the only reason he went to USC is that there are no schools further West in the continental US…..

I AM THE CAT......The Cat In The Hat!!!

by ALLBLUCAT on Aug 25, 2010 8:53 PM EDT reply actions  

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