Clay Travis of Fanhouse.com says the NCAA is going to smack Tennessee football and former head coach Lane Kiffin, who is now at USC.
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The NCAA will cite the University of[COLOR=black] Tennessee’s football program with a failure to monitor a violation stemming from the short tenure of former head coach Lane Kiffin, multiple sources close to the investigation both inside and outside the university told FanHouse.[/COLOR]
[COLOR=black]The violation is related to improper recruiting contacts by Vol coaches and by Vol hostesses in the since-disbanded Orange Pride program. What’s more, in a stunning development that reaches across the country and implicates another of the nation’s most-storied programs, the NCAA will also cite Kiffin, now at USC, with a failure to monitor charge as well as additional citations against Kiffin’s brother-in-law, David Reaves, formerly an assistant quarterbacks coach at Tennessee.[/COLOR]
[COLOR=black]Reaves, who was not hired as part of Kiffin’s USC staff, is currently a New Mexico assistant in charge of quarterbacks and the passing game. [/COLOR]
All of these charges stem from the coaches’ tumultuous one-year reign in Knoxville and involve improper contact with recruits. While the university’s Orange Pride program — a group that was disbanded in 2010 in the wake of the NCAA investigation into its activities — has received most of the media attention, the NCAA’s investigation into improper contacts was much more wide- ranging and includes alleged violations that do not implicate the hostess program at all.
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[URL=”http://ncaafootball.fanhouse.com/2011/02/02/ncaa-to-smack-tennessee-lane-kiffin/”]Complete Article[/URL]
The article closes with:
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Tennessee, Kiffin, and Reaves will have 90 days to respond to the NCAA’s findings once the official letter of allegations arrives. In the meantime, two of the most storied progams in college football are on shaky ground.
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