From the SEC meetings, Kiffin is acting like he planned all of the publicity.
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Kiffin and Meyer finally meet, but fireworks are nowhere to be found
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Commissioner Mike Slive will implore Wednesday that his coaches quit yapping. When he does, Slive probably will stare directly at Kiffin, the young ing?nue, and Spurrier, the wily veteran. He will tell them to keep the focus on the conference's fabulous brand of football. Unfortunately, even in the era of the 24-hour news cycle, fabulous football doesn't move the meter during the offseason doldrums.
Kiffin's spring has proven that the league is a lot more interesting when it has a provocateur. And while reporters like the idiot you're reading now may have written off Kiffin as in over his head after the Meyer incident, Kiffin basically admitted Tuesday that much of his bluster was calculated.
And it worked.
Without playing a down, Kiffin has made Tennessee the most talked-about program in the country. For a guy who must scour the country to populate a program to compete with the juggernauts at Alabama, Florida, Georgia and LSU, publicity is crucial. And during the buildup Tuesday to the anticlimactic meeting between himself and Meyer in the Sandpiper C meeting room, Kiffin grabbed a little more.
At the 27-minute mark of pre-meeting interview session Kiffin finally cracked. "I did ask for adjoining rooms with Coach Meyer," he said.
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