You might say Vols coach Lane Kiffin is off to a rocky start. First he accused Florida's Urban Meyer of cheating by calling a recruit while the kid was visiting Tennessee. Problem is, there's no rule against this.
And now Kiffin has confessed to his own recruiting violations by staging simulated press conferences for incoming recruits. This apparently runs afoul of the NCAA's ban on creating "game day experiences," whatever that means.
In the realm of deviant behavior, it all has a jaywalking feel. The man's been on the job but a few weeks. Give him a break. But in the world of sport, where no ass is too tight, Kiffin is being treated as if he's responsible for Serbian genocide.
Yesterday CBS columnist Gregg Doyal, the Sean Hannity of sporting commentary, blistered Kiffin as an entitled silver spooner who hadn't earned the right to coach the Vols. Today Paul Finebaum, a columnist for the Press-Register in Alabama, calls for his firing. The piece is so weirdly sphincterific that you suspect Finebaum has a side job compressing scrap metal with his buttocks.
