BREAKING: NCAA to HAMMER Tennessee and Lane Kiffin for failure to monitor

[bayoutider]

Have any actual sanctions been handed out, or is this just another whitewash by our spineless new nzaa prez?

This is the real firing squad not the reinstatement committee.

 

[RTR91]

Pay Haden might fire Lane Kiffin before this is over.

Attorney Michael Buckner says if Kiffin found to have "failed to monitor" at UT then "...it calls into question USC's strategy in hiring ...

Joe Schad's tweet BTW.

 

[TommyMac]

As far as I'm concerned, they can't hammer UcheaT hard enough to make up for all the crap they've gotten away with. I still remember all the misery they inflicted on us and I also remember their pious attitude towards us.DT_mad3:DT_mad3:DT_mad3:

 

[Jack Bourbon]

I'd ask what more they could possibly do to USC, but given USC's continued recruiting success, I'd say, "more sanctions. . . "

 

[RT3413]

Has anyone seen an official announcement or PC being called?

 

[bamacon]

I think it is safe to say AU will have company while on probation. Remember the Bball team is in deep doodoo too which is actually what got Bama the repeat violator status.

 

[TIDE-HSV]

Cecil opined this AM that it really should be LOIC...

 

[UAB-CT]

Could we send our Fax Cam Girl to wait for UT's letter? I think the quality up there has probably taken a hit since Layla left with Kiffin.

 

[RJ YellowHammer]

I only read the first 3 pages of the thread, so if anyone else has suggested it - please forgive me. But I hope we need a "UT Investigations Sub Forum." :cool2:

I won't be upset if The Viles get hammered.

 

[mikes12]

I remember when Kiffin left UT, and UT was upset. I was happy for the disruption going on, but at the time I knew, if he had stayed, he would have done a lot more damage.

UT ought to be glad he left after only one year.

 

[gmart74]

is there any trustworthy link saying this will happen? i would love to see ut go down but so far it seems i only see this story on fan blogs and such. has anyone heard a reporter with inside sources say this is for real?

 

[RTR91]

is there any trustworthy link saying this will happen? i would love to see ut go down but so far it seems i only see this story on fan blogs and such. has anyone heard a reporter with inside sources say this is for real?

ESPN is reporting it but is giving the credit to Fanhouse. I think AOL is the only one actually reporting it.

 

[Alakablamo]

Cecil opined this AM that it really should be LOIC...

I agree. There was no failure to monitor. Reaves and Kiffin monitored what they were doing just fine. The lack of institutional control of what the coaching staff was doing is what is getting them in trouble now, and that should be the charge.

 

[bayoutider]

I remember when Kiffin left UT, and UT was upset. I was happy for the disruption going on, but at the time I knew, if he had stayed, he would have done a lot more damage.

UT ought to be glad he left after only one year.

I remember being upset that Lane was leaving UT because of all the potential violations he would cause there but when USC picked him up it was like a 2 for 1 sale at the Porsche dealership.

 

[RollinTider1335]

This is great!!

I remember being upset that Lane was leaving UT because of all the potential violations he would cause there but when USC picked him up it was like a 2 for 1 sale at the Porsche dealership.

 

[crimson2713]

:biggrin2: UT is not an innocent school and there is no level of hell hot enough for Phat Phil's antics nor Peyton Manning directing Rocky Slop in Legion Field.

What I mean by innocent is the Dooley admin. when we got hammered over means, it wasn't fair at all. Noone involved was at the school during the punishment. Not that tn wasn't involved at the time, but that the ones there now, weren't.

 

[pop11011]

I hope they really punish SC and require they give Kiffin a no-cut 10 year contract!

 

[BamaFanVA]

some of you guys have to be kidding...TN did nothing to stop or lessen what Kiffin and staff were doing. If he hadn't left on his own, he would still be the TN coach and the fans and admin would still be supporting him..They didn't fire him and the program deserves punishment for these acts...how many schools have 3 athletic programs being investigated at once. I know one...UT of Knoxville and I hope the NCAA does hammer them for lack of control and failure to monitor.

 

[silentsam74]

Looks like more is coming out. Who knows where this ends. Its got to be tough for CDD.

Sources: NCAA looking at Tennessee for conducting tryout - ESPN

As part of its broad investigation of Tennessee athletics, the NCAA is looking into whether former Vols assistant head coach and recruiting coordinator Ed Orgeron personally conducted a workout of a prospective signee on the student's campus in May 2009, three sources told ESPN.

"When we went through some stuff about Tennessee, I've been told that I'm not allowed to comment," Orgeron, now the defensive coordinator and recruiting coordinator at USC, said Friday. "That's what I've been instructed to do. That's what I'm doing."

The prospect, Brandon Willis of Byrnes (S.C.) High, became the No. 10 rated defensive lineman in the Class of 2010 (No. 110 in the ESPNU 150). Byrnes athletic director Bobby Bentley said the NCAA is investigating the charge. "I don't think it would be for me to say anything," he said.

NCAA rules allow college coaches to observe a prospect twice during the spring of his junior year. However, the college coach may not instruct the prospect or conduct the workout. The NCAA doesn't allow in-person contact between a college coach and a prospect off the college campus until a six-week period that begins after Thanksgiving of the prospect's senior year of high school.

If you're a ut fan, that phrase 'broad investigation into ut athletics' has to make you very uncomfortable.

 

[WMack4Bama]

And now Ivan Maisel is reporting that Coach O is being investigated too for working out a HS prospect in 09. Sources: NCAA looking at Tennessee for conducting tryout - ESPN