Bring in Urban Meyer with him and run that style of offense if he's going to be your quarterback, because he can't play in a pro-style offense.

THE BERRY BEST

Monte Kiffin has just one request: he'd like to keep coaching Eric Berry, even though he admits such a dream isn't too likely.

"No, I just talk to him sometimes and say, 'Gosh, Eric, just think -- next year we do that same blitz.' And he'll say, 'Yeah, I remember that one, coach, let's run that.' Boy, wouldn't that be fun," Kiffin said. "But that's about as far as it goes. We move onto the next conversation."

Does Berry answer Kiffin's pleas for utilizing the same blitzes in the 2010 season?

"I wouldn't expect him to. I'm just joking around. He's a great guy, and I wish this guy could stay three more years," he said. "When that time comes, whatever happens, happens. We're just worried about the next game. I heard on the radio about him running through the 'T' and I don't know what's going to happen with that. I just know that Eric Berry, he is the best. I'm not just saying that. He's the best. What a team guy. I love the guy."

Tennessee: The Girl Who Doesn’t Realize She’s Cute

It seems like just yesterday she was in high school with bad acne and thick glasses (Tennessee losing to Wyoming at home in 2008). But my, oh, my, look at her now. It really is amazing what a little Clearasil, contact lenses and Monte Kiffin’s defense did to her.

Much like the hot foreign exchange student, get in good with the this girl/Tennessee now. Do it before she realizes how good looking she is (and how hideous you are. Seriously would it kill you to put a little gel in your hair once in awhile?). More importantly, do it now, before the SEC Championships start rolling in.

"I did see the rerun," Kiffin said. "It was pretty bad but we'll worry about our team and what we can control. We've got a lot of work to do. Obviously, he'll discipline his team - or not - however he feels."

"Can you believe that somebody out there, and there's been a couple but I'm not going to say who, has said that they think Monte Kiffin is going to retire so you may not want to go there and play for him because he probably won't be there? Well, I want to tell you this right now: I ain't retiring, OK," said Monte Kiffin, who gained widespread acclaim in the NFL for his "Tampa 2" defense. "And I'm not going back to the NFL. I didn't coach 25 years in the NFL to come to Tennessee to get experience to go back to the NFL. And I'm not here because my grandkids. They may be a little bit the reason, but I'll tell you what right now: I'm going to stay right here.

"I love it here, and I'm going to coach here as long as I can coach."

looking forward to another great practice today and a huge game saturday...also a huge shout-out to Lil Wayne for boosting our street cred!

Alabama’s Terrence Cody blocked a Tennessee field goal as time expired and in the wild celebration that followed the big guy took off his helmet. Gary Danielson, who covered the game for CBS, wondered if it should have been an unsportsmanlike violation because it happened while the ball was still live. Kiffin was convinced that it was and said publicly that the refs had missed it.

Well, the refs didn’t miss it. The way the rule is written, even if a penalty had been called (which it shouldn’t be in that situation), it would have been marked off on the next play and not the previous play. The ball belonged to Alabama after the blocked kick.

"That’s a case where the rule is pretty clear," said [SEC supervisor of football officials Rogers] Redding. "Even if there had been time left on the clock, the ball would have belonged to Alabama. And if a penalty had been called, it would still be Alabama’s ball after the penalty was enforced."

I said before by far the No. 1 team in the country and the best-coached team around. You come in here and outgain them by [nearly] 100 yards and miss three field goals.

"I don't believe in moral victories, we should have won that game."

Question Four: Who stirs the pot more, you or Lane Kiffin?

BP: "I spent a lot of time trying to be the least popular coach in the SEC, and it took me a year. It took Lane a week."

The more I hear from Kiffin, and the more I see what he's doing on Saturdays, I'll be damned if that lil' ankle-nipper might not be putting together a football program whose bite can match the coach's yelp.