Kiffin pleased after finishing up NCAA hearing
by Paragon SC on Jun 11, 2011 11:26 AM PDT
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PrintUSC Head Coach Lane Kiffin spoke to reporters briefly after finishing up his testimony in front of the NCAA this morning...
The football portion involving Tennessee's former coaches at today's hearing with the Committee on Infractions wrapped up in time for a late lunch after more than four hours of deliberations.
Former Vols football coach Lane Kiffin, who now serves in the same position at Southern Cal, spoke with reporters for two minutes before departing the Downtown Marriott and boarding a flight back to Los Angeles.
"It was a very fair process," Kiffin said. "I'm glad that it's over. I'm going to get back to (Los Angeles), get back to our camps that are going on right now. Under the direction of the NCAA, we can't comment about (the hearing) at all."
Only two of the 12 major violations alleged in February's Notice of Allegations involve the Vols football program. Kiffin faces a charge of failure to promote an atmosphere of compliance within the football program and failure to monitor the activities regarding compliance of several assistant coaches, while former assistant David Reaves faces "allegations relating to impermissible contacts with prospective student-athletes."
I think the two major violations are bogus...showing us again that the NCAA can make stuff up as it goes along, intrepreting their rules to fit their agenda.
It will be interesting to hear (we won't anytime soon) what Pat Haden's take on things were at the hearing.
We will find out in a few months just what the outcome is...
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A couple things stink about this
1.) Conboy is still on the Committee on Infractions. So theoretically, she can get at USC twice. Will she out of some spite? But the perception and P.R. looks awful if they smack Kiffin.
2.) Kiffin is being charged with two major violations: failure to monitor, failure to promote an atmosphere of compliance. But while he was at UT, none of these “issues,” where raised by compliance or anybody within athletics. So he gets punished now that he’s at ’SC?
I guess if he’s going to be theoretically prevented from spending additional time on the road recruiting, it’s nice to have Ed Orgeron on staff and a cap of 15 scholarships/year.
by Joey Kaufman on Jun 11, 2011 11:50 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Nope. Quite The Contrary
Kiffin was hired to “push the envelope” at Tennessee because their delusional fanbase wrongly felt that it was the only way to compete with Florida, Georgia, LSU and Alabama (especially Florida … it was OK for the Vols to lose to Alabama every year, but Florida surpassing them sent them off their rockers). So, the Vols staffed the football program with a bunch of characters known for stretching the rules in recruiting, and they didn’t just look the other way, but they actually defended and complimented Kiffin whenever he received criticism from opposing fanbases/media writers, the SEC office, and even the NCAA, all of whom repeatedly warned Tennessee that this day was coming if they didn’t reign Kiffin in. Kiffin was an inexperienced guy in his first major college coaching job, no real experience as a top college assistant except in a totally different environment at USC, and Tennessee took advantage of him by using him to do things that they knew that no guy with more experience would have been willing to do, hoping that Kiffin would deliver a national title real fast (i.e. in 4 years or less). They would have used the guy to win a title, and then blamed all the fall-out, the after effects, on him later. Glad Kiffin got out of there before they ruined his career. (Not because I like or support Kiffin in any way … I can separate my dislike for Kiffin from how he was being set up for a disaster by the folks in Knoxville). And I really hope the NCAA sees it this way, because it IS what happened.
haha you clearly don't know what you are talking about
First, we had been owned by Florida for a quite a while and had dominated Alabama under Fulmer. The fanbase felt that Fulmer had grown complacent and Kiffin was seen as new blood that was anything but complacent. I don’t think that the hire was based on the expectation that he would break or stretch the NCAA rules. Fans defended his secondary violations which were still much smaller in number than many schools (such as OSU), I don’t remember anyone defending major violations (we didn’t even know about them at the time). Finally, he is getting hit because he directly disobeyed the compliance department on numerous occasions. The most flagrant being when he brought Rubio on a recruiting visit to a Florida highschool after being expressly told not to by the compliance dept because it was a violation. I like your theories though, they are at least entertaining. You really seem to understand the hillbilly mentality and the motives behind everything.
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your theories are pretty bizarre
“So, the Vols staffed the football program with a bunch of characters known for stretching the rules in recruiting,” didn’t your school hire the exact same staff? Is your whole theory that the school forced him to commit the violations? What are you basing this on?
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Great job Gold
Who--What--Slim Shady----the ncaa is after all the BS they are lying out----and just remember they will rewrite history every seven years after the fact.
by so.cal.native1952 on Jun 13, 2011 12:54 PM PDT up reply actions
If he knowingly violated directives from Compliance, then....
why is there no administrative record of Kiffin being reprimanded? Not very good control if your employees practice insubordination with no consequences? Or, perhaps this was fabricated by the UT admin to CYA???
Also, Rubio was a graduate of STA. That allegation might be resolved when the CoI renders their decision.
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by Nestor on Sep 4, 2010 9:24 PM CDT
I was not aware that the NCAA's evidence was made public
but even if there is no administrative record of him being punished, that does not mean that he didn’t disobey a directive from the compliance dept. That would only mean that they didn’t punish him like they should have. I was under the impression that there was evidence of them telling him not to bring Rubio beforehand.
I was also under the impression that the allegations were based on contact he allegedly made with a recruit. I know he went to STA and that is what has been said for a while, but the charge was still brought. I don’t pretend to know how it will turn out and I hope that it really was just a visit to his old school. If they really believed that I doubt they would have brought the charge though.
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"We will find up (out) in a few months just what the outcome is..."
Given an opportunity for the NCAA to go after and thump USC yet one more time… these words are as ominous as “Jack the Ripper” showing up at your “Going Away Party”.
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