[NU Sports] 1st Report from Knoxville

[Herman Wang]

I believe Sylvester Croom at Mississippi State was the first black coach in the SEC, but he got fired a few seasons ago.

I think UT fans should be glad to be rid of Kiffin, what with all the trash talking, the NCAA infractions and players getting arrested.  They should be happy they're not having to pay Kiffin a ridiculous buyout to fire him if/when the seemingly inevitable future NCAA violations occur.


> From: cspnu1981 at tds.net
> To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
> Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:34:13 -0500
> Subject: [NU Sports] 1st Report from Knoxville
> 
> Hi Everyone,
> 
>             First off, great to see and meet many of the listers in Tampa!
> Great fun. I will forward pictures to each of you there individually now
> that I'm back home. 
> 
>  
> 
> I'll go on record that this family wished Tennessee had never hired Kiffin.
> . since I have one degree from Tennessee there are a few times I cheer for
> the orange, but Kiffin made it hard. I think Tennessee fans deserved a
> better face to the football team.
> 
>  
> 
>             Sports radio talk is mixed here in town. Overall here in town
> sports radio quite good and basically pretty classy. Right now, at least
> this hour, the sports hosts are promoting letting any recruit leave for any
> other school other than USC (and some adding not to allow the commits to go
> to another SEC school, too). Some of the players recruited this year
> started classes today (so I assume they had already signed their commit
> papers).
> 
>  
> 
> Some callers are saying Kiffin was spineless, but for most part it was very
> well know that USC was Kiffin's dream school and he had let the AD know
> from day one that this was the case, (and also told the Tennessee AD right
> after Carroll left that he would be interested in the USC job), so callers
> for the most part are cutting Kiffin quite a lot of slack on leaving after
> just one year. 
> 
>  
> 
> Most of talk is who the next coach might be (sports talk fans are pulling
> for Kippy Brown, already on the coaching staff or David Cutcliffe, who was
> offensive coordinator when UT won the national championship years ago.
> There is also a lot of talk on how to be fair to the new players that
> started classes today and whether to release them. Evidently, Kippy Brown
> made a very favorable impression at a press conference today. He is now the
> interim head coach. Kippy's bio:
> http://www.utsports.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/brown_kippy00.html
> 
>  
> 
> I did not know that Kippy is black. Since the SEC has never had a black
> head coach (correct me if I'm wrong), I would have thought that would have
> been brought up on sports radio, but it wasn't during the hour I listened.
> 
>  
> 
>             No word yet on decommits and whether any might head to the Big
> Ten.
> 
>  
> 
>             That's all for now.  
> 
>  
> 
>             Go CATS!!   Go CATS!!  
> 
>  
> 
>             Tampa was great!
> 
>  
> 
> Chris 
> 
> Knoxville, TN
> 
>  
> 
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