A GoVolsExtra.com poster posted this thread over at: http://www.govolsxtra.com/news/2009/...oach/#comments about Kiffin's staff. Im not saying it's true, but the poster had a lot of insider info on Tennessee and claimed to be and ex-player and staff member. His cred was questioned later and he confirmed knowledge of many things that aren't know by just any UT fan....Just passing along the juicy info:

(1) In private meetings, 1 of which I attended, Mike Hamilton admitted that the basic accusations of the Super Bowl party were true.

(2) Coaches have equipment managers ice beer down for their consumption in the public areas of the complex after practice. Remember: 1 of the coaches has a DUI, 1 is an admitted alcoholic/addict and another is the son of a convicted drug dealer.

(3) Cutting walk-ons after they paid their fees for the spring semester - and couldn't get a refund and attend another school.

(4) One of the coaches is regularly seen at an apartment of a known Knoxville drug dealer.

(5) The secretaries who were described as "not being able to keep up" in January provoked Lane and Assistant head Coach Ed Orgeron because they were not comfortable hearing the words g***amn and m*f***er every 30 seconds.

(6) Lane uses the student managers (driving UT vehicles) as his own personal designated driver service. Before Layla got to Knoxville, he often used this service to get him to his favorite watering holes.

Someone should ask Lane where he spent the evening after the lettermen's party at Ray Hand's house - after leaving OCI with the daughter of ... (out of respect for the father of this girl, I won't finish the sentence.)

(7) Kiffin had to be reprimanded by Hamilton for drinking with college students at Hannah's and OCI. (Again, before Layla came to town.)

(8) Assistant Head Coach Ed Orgeron has instructed staff members that he doesn't give a darn about their families. They should get somebody to raise their children for them, because their life belongs to him.

(9) Throughout the spring, world's oldest GA Mitch Browning didn't review install packages with his players. He would give them pages from a playbook, accompanied with "I don't know why we're doing this; it's stupid and won't work." It really installed confidence in the players.

(10) After his first week on the job, Eddie Gran described the personal lives and habits of his new co-workers to a friend still on the support staff at Auburn "one thing I can tell you about the guys I work with: haven't any of them found the Lord."

(11) The physicians are no longer the final decision-maker of the health care of the student athlete. If a doctor says that a player should be held out of contact or certain types of activities, the coaching staff regularly overrules these decisions. I know that Mark Smith and Assistant Head Coach Ed Orgeron have butted heads over this many times. Athletic trainer Jason McVeigh has been threatened with his job if he objects to Orgeron's medical decisions.

My personal opinion is that all of this can't be true. It's just too good to be true and too funny, but where there's smoke there's fire (and there's been a lot of smoke!).