Who wants Dominoes?
Well, you got’em! The first to fall was Jim Mora getting fired as head coach of the Seattle Seahawks. Before the door could even hit him in the butt, the Seahawks were on the phone with Pete Carroll. Captain Cool said yes and left the USC Trojans, the college football mecca of this decade, in his dust. After overtures to Oregon State’s Mike Riley and the Jacksonville Jaguar’s Jack Del Rio, the Trojans have settled, and I do mean settled, for Tennessee’s Lane Kiffin.
As of about midnight last night, the campus of the University of Tennessee became a reenactment of the Hatfield’s and McCoy’s with Lane Kiffin the only McCoy left to shoot. The air was filled with snuff spat in such anger that some kids thought it was raining.
Kiffin’s departure tips the next domino and creates a vacuum in SEC recruiting just three weeks from signing day. This could be great for Georgia if we can get our stuff together. There were several of those commits to UT that had Georgia high on their list.
The first replacement for Kiffin that came to mind was Peewee Herman, but I think I dreamed that. The next name was Duke’s David Cutcliffe. I’m sure that would be fine with Duke because Cutcliffe has been there two years, more than could be reasonably expected…..insert crickets chirping….I have always felt that Cutcliffe was the key to much of the Vols success in the 90′s.
It would be refreshing and just freakin’ awesome if he were to stay at Duke and continue building a competitive program there. I for one will not be holding my breath but, whether it’s him or another coach yet un-named, the dominoes will continue to fall.
Oh yeah, and all the kids can do is watch.
Kiffin Under the Gun Dismisses Players
Lane Kiffin might be a miserable person to hang around with but I am more and more impressed with him as a coach almost every day. Today it was announced he would not suspend but permanently dismiss Nu’Keese Richardson and Mike Edwards from the team. These two were the hold up men in an attempted armed robbery last week. Janzen Jackson was apparently the lookout man. Final disposition of his status on the team is still to come. The interesting thing is the “wildboys” stunt last recruiting season and the “punking” of the team panders to a kid on the edge, and has nothing to do with attracting character kids.
In honor of this latest development, Tennessee designed a new helmet to finish the year with. It will be a reminder to all who see it, that guns don’t rob people, people rob people.
On a Voluntary basis…
SEC Rivals Crossing the Line
You may have heard about the Tennessee and Auburn billboards that will grace the Atlanta area soon. Lame Kiffin and Eric Berry are shown prominently. I have not seen the Tennessee pieces of…..”artwork”, but I did see this Auburn ____ three times this week…I took this picture with my Blackberry somewhere between Dallas and Rockmart on Highway 278…are there some prospects in Cedartown or something?
I would say let’s put one up in Auburn and Knoxville, but is there anybody we want in those areas? Especially Big Urange Country. When was the last time we got someone of value in East Tennessee? Hmmm. This was in the paper.
SEC Media Days…Character vs.Characters
SEC Media Days have come and gone without incident. I am very, very disappointed. There were no jabs verbal or otherwise, and I have been waiting for this for weeks and pfht! Nothing! Now I must say I am very relieved to hear that Tim Tebow is still a virgin. I’m not sure how that matter’s in the football world unless it can be proven it aids in his training regimen, i.e. overall conditioning and strong passing arm.
What inspired this missive is something else I just read attributed to the Big Bird, the King of Snipe, Darth Visor himself. In an article about Lane Kiffin, Steve Spurrier is quoted as saying when your program is not winning maybe you should keep your mouth shut. He went on to say:
Does that mean if some how the planets aligned and South Carolina won an SEC Championship, that it’s okay for him to morph back into the appendage of his youth? That could be dubbed as a type of moral relativism. I’ll be humble while I suck, but if I’m ever great again watch out brother the gloves come off!
I’m not sure Lane Kiffin needs that kind of mentoring coach, but thanks!
Once again, I am thankful to have a coach who is seldom involved in negative news of any type. This is because he chooses to be a man of character, rather than attempt to maintain a character.
Mark Richt and Tim Tebow are both men of faith.
How can we love one and hate the other?
Just sayin’…
Tell me what you really think!