KNOXVILLE, Tn: Lane Kiffin has barely managed to unpack the boxes in his new office as head football coach of the University of Tennessee, but that hasn't kept the former NFL coach from starting fires around the SEC.
At a recent sponsor's banquet, Kiffin called out University of Florida coach Urban Meyer whom Kiffin had recently lured several high profile recruits from.
"Yeah and what's even better is that Urban broke the rules," Kiffin said. "While I was caressing [2009 recruit] Nu'Keese Richardson's thighs in my office, his phone rang. It was Urban sending kinky picture texts of himself! Nice try Urban."
The comment quickly sent shockwaves felt round the SEC, prompting Meyer to quickly issue a reply.
"I am shocked and appaled at this accusation," Meyer said in a later press conference, "I would never send kinky, sexually explicit pictures of myself to a recruit after March 30."
SEC Comissioner Mike Slive addressed the issue within days of the incident.
"This whole debacle has been bizarre from both parties involved," Slive said. "Neither coach should be caressing the thighs of a recruit or cajooling their cell phones with awesome, steamy, muscular photos of themselves doing preacher curls outside the specified dates of January 30 to Valentine's Day."
Other SEC coaches have been quick to comment on the subject.
"The real issue here isn't necessarily that both coaches got the dates wrong," Alabama head coach Nick Saban said. "It's that both Lane and Urban were being total sluts about the whole thing. I think that was the first time Lane had met with Nu'Keese, and he's caressing his thighs? Whatever."
Saban was later seen romantically walking class of 2010 commit Blake Sims up the front porch steps of Sim's home in Virginia before settling for a kiss on the cheek.
