Tennessee’s 4-4 Record Reflects the Two Different Teams Kiffin Has Put on the Field This Season

November 4, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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Standing at 4-4 on the season, the Lane Kiffin Project has been somewhat successful.

The Volunteers have put two different teams on the field this year: one has been reminiscent of last season’s mediocre squad, with a sputtering offensive attack; the other has been a motivated SEC contender that can play with any team in the nation.

A week ago, the Vols had a chance to knock off one of the top teams in the country in Alabama. Tennessee dropped the game 12-10 after a last second blocked field goal by Alabama’s gargantuan defensive tackle Terrence Cody. Finishing games in the fourth quarter has been an Achilles heel for Kiffin’s squad.

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Kudos to Vanderbilt Head Basketball Coach Kevin Stallings

August 26, 2009 By 1 Comment

In what is becoming a daily tradition here at MSF, we link you over to Sports By Brooks for (finally!) and uplifting story about college basketball. And this one involves a guy with (no surprise) Midwest roots: Kevin Stallings, currently the head coach at Vanderbilt:

Vanderbilt head basketball coach Kevin Stallings had been planning a 10-day trip for his basketball team to Australia for well over a year when he learned that school wide budget cuts threatened to nix the trip. So what did Stallings do? He decided to decline the $100,000 raise he was owed by the school in order to pay for the journey.

To juxtapose one of my favorite lines from Dumb & Dumber: Just when you think integrity is completely gone from college basketball, someone goes and does something like this…and TOTALLY redeems the much-maligned sport.

Okay, not totally (Rick Pitino and John Calipari), but still.

Kudos to Kevin Stallings. Perhaps this will spur more college coaches — like the ones dropping deuces in brand new $70,000 bathrooms — to actually show their players what leadership and sacrifice is all about.

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