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Tennessee Sports
This is not Rocky Top, but talk UT Sports here anyway.
Tennessee plans to self report another secondary violation
Tennessee plans to self-report another NCAA secondary violation after a high school recruit was mentioned by name Tuesday on Lane Kiffin's Twitter page.
Tennessee athletic director Mike Hamilton said it wasn't actually Kiffin who penned the post in question but an employee in the football office who was updating Kiffin's Twitter page for him.
The post was up for about an hour during the afternoon before being removed by Tennessee officials. It read: "It's a beautiful day in Knoxville, Tennessee today. I was so exited to hear that J.C. Copeland committed to play for the Vols today!"
NCAA rules prohibit coaches and athletic department employees from commenting about unsigned prospects or publicizing them in any way.
Copeland, a 6-foot-1, 245-pound defensive end from LaGrange, Ga., is an ESPNU 150 Watch List member. He chose Tennessee over Auburn, Ole Miss, Maryland, UAB, Central Florida, East Carolina and Southern Miss.
"It was one of Lane's personal assistants, and it was his first day on the job," Hamilton explained. "He posted the message on Lane's Twitter account without asking compliance. It was an inadvertent error, but it's still a violation and one of those things where you've got to know what the deal is. We'll report it."
This is the second time under Kiffin that Tennessee has had to self-report a violation involving an unsigned prospect. In February, Kiffin mentioned running back Bryce Brown by name on a radio talk show in Knoxville and referred to him as a great player.
Tennessee self-reported the violation to the NCAA, but Brown was still allowed to sign with the Vols.
Kiffin has been a lightning rod for controversy ever since his hiring on Dec. 1 and has managed to keep things stirred up with some of his remarks about rival schools.
He was reprimanded by the SEC after erroneously accusing Florida coach Urban Meyer of cheating the day after signing day, and the Vols have had to self-report a handful of secondary violations involving Kiffin and the football program.
Kiffin and his Tennessee assistants were also recently banned from the Pahokee High School campus in Florida by the school principal after Kiffin in February made some demeaning comments about the high school and the community during a speech to Tennessee boosters and fans.
Kiffin has since apologized on a couple different occasions, and Tennessee assistant Eddie Gran was allowed back on Pahokee's campus on Tuesday.
Nevermind this NCAA BS. They're Nazis, I tell you. Anyway, I sure hope we get J***e H**ps to commit or at least Je**e Scr**gins. We need a quarterback bad.
Nevermind this NCAA BS. They're Nazis, I tell you. Anyway, I sure hope we get J***e H**ps to commit or at least Je**e Scr**gins. We need a quarterback bad.
Kiffykins...is that you? Trying to skirt the rules again will only get you in more trouble!
Geez! This has to be the most violations committed in such a short span ever at UT.
Kiffin and his staff really need to read up on the rules of the NCAA.
Didnt you hear? Kiffykins passed the recruiting exam with flying colors!
They'll have you believe he had nothing to do with this twitter update...it was a new person on the staff that updated it without checking with their compliance office....riiiiiiiiight....
Didnt you hear? Kiffykins passed the recruiting exam with flying colors!
They'll have you believe he had nothing to do with this twitter update...it was a new person on the staff that updated it without checking with their compliance office....riiiiiiiiight....
Never know, they may have been letting some flunky with no knowledge of recruiting rules tweet prospects and fans. There was a report last night that said Marve was going to take Purdue up on their scholarship for 1 reason... he could at least speak to the Purdue coaches. According to ESPN's Joe Schad, sources close to Marve said UT had long been leading for his services; but he was picking Purdue because their coaches would actually talk to him, and he never heard from or could get ahold of the Vol staff.
Never know, they may have been letting some flunky with no knowledge of recruiting rules tweet prospects and fans. There was a report last night that said Marve was going to take Purdue up on their scholarship for 1 reason... he could at least speak to the Purdue coaches. According to ESPN's Joe Schad, sources close to Marve said UT had long been leading for his services; but he was picking Purdue because their coaches would actually talk to him, and he never heard from or could get ahold of the Vol staff.
Didnt you hear? Kiffykins passed the recruiting exam with flying colors!
They'll have you believe he had nothing to do with this twitter update...it was a new person on the staff that updated it without checking with their compliance office....riiiiiiiiight....
It really doesn't matter either way. If it was someone on his staff, he's ultimately responsible.
It's like the military guys. You as the commanding officer are responsible for the actions of your crew while under your command. The buck stops with Kiffin.
Ol' Kiffin is going to get UT in a lot of trouble if he keeps this mess up. As for his exam, I think we all can tell by his actions of late, how well he did on it.
When I took it on here, I missed 2 questions.
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It really doesn't matter either way. If it was someone on his staff, he's ultimately responsible.
It's like the military guys. You as the commanding officer are responsible for the actions of your crew while under your command. The buck stops with Kiffin.
Ol' Kiffin is going to get UT in a lot of trouble if he keeps this mess up. As for his exam, I think we all can tell by his actions of late, how well he did on it.
When I took it on here, I missed 2 questions.
Oh i agree on the responsibility front- I honestly think this was Hamilton speaking more to the UT boosters, as if to say "guys...it was a mistake, but it wasnt ACTUALLY Kiffin this time who did it...so its different this time" just in case the boosters had started to become fed up with all of this neg press.
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