Behind the scenes with Tennessee recruiting
At 5 a.m. Wednesday morning I drive from Nashville to Knoxville to check on the new Tennessee staff. Having spent two years around UT recruiting coordinator/defensive line coach Ed Orgeron when he was coaching at Ole Miss as I worked on “Meat Market,” it feels like déjà vu. Only now he’s bouncing around a football office wearing this impossibly Day-Glo orange Vols fleece; the war room is three times bigger and legendary defensive coach Monte Kiffin is sitting at the table. Oh, and there are no Red Bulls or Slim Jims in sight.
On this day, Orgeron is running the show, since he is UT’s recruiting coordinator and we’re in prime recruiting season. Plus, new Vols head coach Lane Kiffin is with his wife, who on Tuesday night had given birth to an 8-pound, 8-ounce boy named Monte Knox Kiffin. (They’re calling him Knox, and I suspect that is playing well on the UT fan boards.)
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1/15/09
