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DRC · Mar 11, 2009

There is a rumor someone may have proof he said it. If a recording comes out its going to put Tennessee in a difficult situation.

stevescookin · Mar 11, 2009

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There is a rumor someone may have proof he said it. If a recording comes out its going to put Tennessee in a difficult situation.
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Good, because as it stands now, it's Kiffen's word against a window washing, gas pumping, grease monkey... right?

stevescookin · Mar 11, 2009

Oh No!!! Kiffen better not fire this secretary !!

I can see it now...Volgate

OkieTigerTK · Mar 11, 2009

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There is a rumor someone may have proof he said it. If a recording comes out its going to put Tennessee in a difficult situation.
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i said in another thread that sooner or later someone was going to record kitten and when that happens its gonna get fun. sooner would be nice!

DRC · Mar 11, 2009

As of tonight I'm hearing Kiffin is still safe no matter what happens with this most recent dust up.

fanatic · Mar 12, 2009

I know his son is his boss now, but I dont see why the elder Kiffin does'nt just pull him to the side and tell him to chill. Personally, I hope it continues. As much as it is entertaining, he's also alienating himself among his coaching peers and every team they play will be that much more fired up. No way UT sustain that type of emotion from game to game.

I hope there's proof of what he said to the USCe recruit; especially after he went on about it not being his way. Here's to him being a pathological liar on top of everything else.

If thinks keep going the way the have been, UT will wish they were the ones that hired Gene Chizik. Maybe they already do. :hihi:

stevescookin · Mar 12, 2009

To put it in perspective, it really is just a dust up, that we're having a lot of fun with. But a lot of straws have to be piling up on the camel's back. I personally can't wait till they play Florida,Bama,LSU, and now South Carolina. And then You've got the impending NCAA scrutiny in response to all the secondary violatios. What's next ... a strip club sighting ,,, DUI ...wrongful termination lawsuits?

"Like sands through the hourglass..."

...and their fanbase has the chutzpah to criticize Les Miles ???

HatcherTiger · Mar 12, 2009

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...and their fanbase has the chutzpah to criticize Les Miles ???
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"Bring back Phat Fil." :grin:

DRC · Mar 14, 2009

More negative pub for Tenn.

Raiders depose Kiffin, attack former coach in letter to Tennessee

New Tennessee football coach Lane Kiffin's rocky start at Rocky Top will get rockier early next week when he is deposed by lawyers for the Oakland Raiders, who refused to pay the remainder of his contract after firing him in September -- and who will try to demonstrate why during what promises to be a contentious deposition.

The deposition is set for Monday in the San Francisco office of Kiffin's attorney, a front-office official for the Raiders told CBSSports.com on Friday. The deposition is necessary because of Kiffin's grievance with the NFL over the salary he says the Raiders still owe him -- two months salary from the three-year contract he signed in January 2007.

In addition to the timing of Monday's deposition, CBSSports.com also has learned that the Raiders sent a scathing letter to Kiffin's boss at Tennessee, president John Petersen, less than two months after the school hired Kiffin in late November.

• RAIDERS LETTER TO TENNESSEE

In the letter written by Raiders general counsel Jeff Birren, a copy of which was obtained by CBSSports.com, the NFL team suggests Kiffin undermined the Raiders after he was fired.

"It is ... quite possible that during the period of time for which Kiffin is seeking compensation from the Raiders he was also actively supplying information about the team to its opponents," Birren wrote.

The letter, which accused Kiffin of misleading the team during the hiring process and undermining owner Al Davis during Kiffin's 20 games as coach, noted "Mr. Kiffin's personal agenda in his apparently on-going efforts to damage the Raiders" and concluded ominously:

"It cannot be in the best interests of the University to continue to serve as (Kiffin's) ally in his personal, though misplaced, war to rewrite the past."

Phone and email messages were left Friday with Kiffin's publicists at Tennessee.

Monday's deposition figures to add more headlines to the curious pile Kiffin has created in his first few months on the job at Tennessee.
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stevescookin · Mar 14, 2009

Al Davis might shoot off at the mouth, but I don't think his attorneys would proceed if they didn't have some real evidence or testimony that Kiffen divulged proprietary info on purpose. And to go so far as to warn Tennessee to stand clear... ?

Where there's smoke...Jamarkus, tell us what happened there? You had a front row seat.