Tee Martin turns down position at Tennessee to stay with Kiffin at USC

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Man, this must burn the Vols.

"''I was very honored to be offered a position on Coach Jones' Tennessee staff,'' Martin said in a statement posted on school's website. ''I truly believe he will do an outstanding job with the Vols program. My decision to remain at USC was the toughest I have ever had to make because Tennessee is such a special place to me."

''At the end of the day, I am a man of my word. I promised Coach Kiffin when I was hired at USC that I had goals I wanted to accomplish here. We still have work to do here to reach those goals. I see a great future at USC with the players on our roster and the recruits we have coming in."
 

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''At the end of the day, I am a man of my word.
I promised Coach Kiffin when I was hired at USC that I had goals I wanted to accomplish here. We still have work to do here to reach those goals. I see a great future at USC with the players on our roster and the recruits we have coming in."
I'll bet Vol fans got a chuckle from someone saying this and choosing Kiffin as his new mentor.
 

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"Should I go back to Tennessee where they still have stuff on me or should I stay at USC where I have plenty on them?"
 

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Tee Martin is probably seeing both the USC and UT jobs and stepping stones. With what I know, I'd get as far from Lane Kiffen as a could, but I'm not so sure Martin is any more upstanding than Kiffen.

Anyway, what a slap in the face to Volnation. This is the lowest point I've ever seen the UT program. They can't seem to get anything right lately.
 

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Man, this must burn the Vols.

"''I was very honored to be offered a position on Coach Jones' Tennessee staff,'' Martin said in a statement posted on school's website. ''I truly believe he will do an outstanding job with the Vols program. My decision to remain at USC was the toughest I have ever had to make because Tennessee is such a special place to me."

''At the end of the day, I am a man of my word. I promised Coach Kiffin when I was hired at USC that I had goals I wanted to accomplish here. We still have work to do here to reach those goals. I see a great future at USC with the players on our roster and the recruits we have coming in."
If he was such a man of his word, why hasn't he ever come clean about the money he got from the Mobile booster? Oh yeah. He gave his word to the booster and phat phil never to tell about it. And yes the Viles up here have taken his rejection to stay with kiffie as treason. He is now public enemy #1.

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I think Tee Martin is being smart by staying at Southern Cal. Even though he is in the Lame Kitten regime, he is still learning how to be a position coach. Whether he chooses to adopt LK's questionable ethics is a matter for him to decide. He should stay at Southern Cal for a couple more years before seeking a OC job at another school.
 

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How wonderful to see Tee show such loyalty to Kiffen, it says alot about him.

And how special that must be to the Tennessee fan base. :biggrin:

Tennessee is so pathetic these days it's almost no fun to mock them anymore...
 

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I listened to an interview with Jimmy Hyams on 104.5 here in Nashville. He said that Tee Martin wanted $500,000 to go back to UT, which would have been more than the offensive coordinator.
 

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