Do you hear that sound coming from down South? No, you don’t, and there’s a good reason for it.
After spending the early part of the week escalating the sniping, both Lane Kiffin and Urban Meyer received a phone call from their friendly neighborhood commissioner, telling them in not so many words to knock off the playground taunting.
According to USA Today, SEC commish Mike Slive dialed up the coaches from Tennessee and Florida and reminded them of they’d had an earlier conversation this offseason about lobbing verbal grenades at each other. We’re assuming both confabs included something along the lines of “silence is golden”. Or “STFU”. Or something.
Meyer took the advice to heart, liberally offering up “no comments” whenever Kiffin’s name has been brought up the past two days.
It was good to see Kiffin stick it to the Gators.
The commish needs to leave well enough alone.
Meyer is such a DRAMA QUEEN, THAT CREAM PUFF TIM IS A FAIRY TOO.
LOL wooo, OK.
First, Kiffin lost. Only thing he stuck to them was a W.
Secondly, Meyer has never been a “drama queen” until Kiffin removed his own pacifier and showed up mouthing off to the media like a petulant child.
I find it hard to believe that Meyer has undergone a personality transplant this year.
[...] for Big Ten coaches in the very near future, affording Jim Delany the opportunity to have a Slive-like come-to-Jesus discussion with at least two of the coaches in the conference. Permalink 0 Comments Latest Stories in: Big [...]
[...] In his lone year at Tennessee in 2009 before bolting for his current job at USC, Kiffin was famous — or infamous, depending on your point of view — for nipping at the heels of the SEC coaching hierarchy, especially Florida’s Meyer. The public sniping between the two reached a boiling point when Kiffin accused Meyer of cheating in the recruitment of a player who still signed with the Vols and continued to the point where conference commissioner Mike Slive had to step in. [...]