Major Violations: Lane Kiffin In Trouble Again

Word is the NCAA is finally ready to charge Tennessee for the football recruiting violations Lame Kiffin and his staff committed back in 2009. According to FanHouse report, “the NCAA will cite both the Tennessee football program and Lame Kiffin with a failure to monitor a violation charge as well as file additional citations against Kiffin’s brother-in-law and former Vol assistant coach David Reaves”. Uh-oh spaghetti-o’s!

It doesn’t shock me that the NCAA’s charging the school, we’ve been’t known that they were investigating the Vol football program…what does shock me is that the NCAA’s hitting Kiffin with charges that will most likely lead to some kind of punishment even though he’s now coaching at another school. I ain’t never heard of that happening.

We don’t know what the punishment for the violations will be, but according to one insider the failure to monitor charge that both Kiffin and Tennessee were hit with “almost always classified as a major violation”….so in all likelyhood neither of them are going to walk away with just a slap on the wrist.

So what exactly did the NCAA find out during it’s investigation:

In its investigation, the NCAA has determined that Reaves, then an assistant coach at Tennessee, made improper contact with recruits as well as providing written and oral instruction to the Vol hostesses about which top recruits to contact, how to contact them, and asked for updates on those conversations, which occurred either via Facebook, text message or phone call.

The hostesses were also urged to inquire as to how official visits to other schools went and to make sure that recruits remained committed to the Vols. According to the NCAA, these contacts were improper and amounted to a failure to monitor on the part of the football program.

Reaves maintained to NCAA investigators that he provided no direction to members of Orange Pride. But the NCAA has written evidence to counter these denials and that evidence in conjunction with interviews with the hostesses led the NCAA to believe that Kiffin, Reaves and the University of Tennessee football program have all violated NCAA rules.

via FanHouse