New Tennessee coach Lane Kiffin's SEC antics are beginning to backfire. Kiffin’s newest controversy started when he insulted the school and the entire city of Pahokee, Florida after signing star wide receiver Nu’Kesse Richardson inhis 2009 recruiting class. Richardson was originally committed to become a Gator and was thought to be in the running against Andre Debose to replace Percy Harvin's position.

Kiffin said "Someone at the school was going to screw it up ... The fax machine wouldn't work, or they would have changed the signatures - all the things that go on in Pahokee," and "For those of you who haven't been to Pahokee, there ain't much going on. You take that hour drive up from South Florida, there ain't a gas station that works. Nobody's got enough money to even have shoes or a shirt on." 

Kiffin was essentially saying that Richardson’s family and school would purposely not fax the papers correctly because they wanted him to sign with Florida. In the second quote, Kiffin is calling Pahokee a run-down, poor community.

This may not be the best tactic to pick up recruits in South Florida, one of the most loaded regions in the nation. As one of the regional powerhouses, Pahokee churns out as many star division one players as any other school in the nation. Pahokee alone has produced NFL Pro Bowler Anquan Boldin(WR), Wake Forest's Alphonso Smith (CB), who had 21 interceptions in his career at Wake Forest and was drafted 37th overall by the Broncos, Florida State's Antone Smith (RB), and one of the best freshman in the nation in Gator corner Janoris Jenkins - just to name a few.

Pahokee will continue to produce stars and it doesn't look like Tennessee will be in the mix for a while. Tennessee Assistant Coach Eddie Gran came to the school to offer a scholarship to top prospect junior Antonio Ford and was told that the Tennessee staff were not allowed on campus. According to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Pahokee Principal Ariel Alejo has said that Tennessee’s coaching staff is not allowed to be on the school grounds. They have gone as far as contacting the SEC offices and the Tennessee athletic department about Kiffin’s remarks.

Pahokee football coach Blaze Thompson said, "At no time has a coach or administrator convinced or coerced a player or changed legal documents.” Thompson was infuriated over Kiffin’s remarks and demanded an apology. Coach Kiffin has since apologized, but don’t expect Coach Thompson to be pushing his star athletes to become Vols any time soon. The Pahokee school administrators are requesting a public apology rather than the private one that has been issued.

The brash comments  made by Lane Kiffin in his first couple months as Tennessee head coach have begun to come back to hurt him already. There were a few more comments Kiffin made that should come back to bite him on September 19th in the Swamp, or should I say chomp him. Needless to say, Monte (Lane's father) needs to remind his son about the old saying, ' Don't writes checks with your mouth that your tail can't cash.'

Ben Petitto is a columnist for GatorTailgating.com.