Lane Kiffin Prompts Reporters To Jump Gun

Lane Kiffin must drive a station wagon bigger than the one my mom had back in the 80’s. And that one was pretty big.   There is no other way he has the room for everyone to hop on his media bandwagon the way reporters have in the past several months.   Case in point: Secondary violations are reported every year by numerous schools in handfuls (South Carolina 11, Clemson 13, Georgia three, and Florida two, all in 2008).   Those are minor examples too. Since 2000, Ohio State has reported more than 375 violations .   These violations are common place among a lot of schools and have never made news until recently.   But type the words “secondary violations” into a Yahoo search engine and the first three articles you find will be about Lane Kiffin’s half a dozen secondary violations since joining the University of Tennessee.   It makes you wonder, why now? Why are these violations so newsworthy now?   The answer has to ... (link)