Kiffin out on a limb with new recruit

Kiffin out on a limb with new recruit

So what do you think of Daniel Hood? Have you heard his story? I’ll tell it here quickly, and I promise: you will have a strong gut reaction.
Hood is a highly regarded defensive end/tight end prospect who just signed with Lane Kiffin and Tennessee. When Hood was 13, a juvenile court found that he helped rape his 14-year-old cousin.

There you go. Two sentences, summing him up. Enough for you to draw a conclusion.
But wait. We should probably mention that he was 13 then and is 19 now. And that former Tennessee coach Phil Fulmer — no prude when it came to off-field misconduct by his players — stopped recruiting him. And that the victim wrote a letter of support for Hood.

5/8/09