Dead coach walking...

Under the category of "they take football WAY too seriously down south", Lane Kiffin returns to Tennessee for the first time since his admittedly rude and abrupt departure from Knoxville for subsequent failures at USC...and people who care for him are understandably fearful for his safety while he's there. His children won't be going at all; his mother is pleading for him to be in the upstairs booth rather than his normal position on the Alabama sideline, and arguably half of the folks in orange will be at the game primarily for (or more accurately, against) his return, rather than to root for their seventeen point underdog Volunteers. (Thanks to Graham Watson for the story!)