In case you hadn't seen Lane Kiffin's comments at a recruiting celebration/function thingy in Knoxville this morning...

"Just so you know, when a recruit's on another campus, you can't call a recruit on another campus. I love the fact that Urban had to cheat, and still didn't get him (Vol signee Nu'Keese Richardson). Great job man!"

If Lane was making a checklist of teams in the league to really piss off, he's got the biggest rivals covered: he got the Chickens all riled up by taking David Reaves and jabbing back at Steve Spurrier's insinuation that Kiffin hadn't taken the NCAA required recruiting test.

Next was Alabama, as Kiffin took Lance Thompson and hired him out from under Nick Saban. He then had a number of Crimson Tide purchases commits take official visits to Knoxville. And finally, at today's same event, he said Saban should thank Thompson for basically signing a large part of their mythical Rivals.com National Championship.

He even got under LSU's skin just for kicks, and I for one don't even really hate the Tigers. Janzen Jackson's joining the Vols provided me a great way to start my Thursday, and it's safe to say LSU fans probably don't like us much.

And finally, the Gators. How to make Urban mad: (1) Joke about singing Rocky Top all night long after beating them in Gainesville next year at your opening presser. (2) Take two of their long-time commits, one of which following a weekend-before-signing-day official visit. (3) Take jabs at their coach, and straight-up call him a cheater.

Uhhhh...

If you're a Vol and don't like this, you're crazy. Why? OK, yes, we're probably going to get killed at Florida next year - they are where we want to be. But this is yet another aspect of this new regime: no more playing nice. Not anymore will a Tennessee just take a jab. Nope, we're starting stuff now, people.

A favorite form of procrastination of mine is perusing the recruiting board on Rivals, affectionately called the "main board". Kiffin and Tennessee are getting lit up something fierce right now by hordes of Gates, Bammers, occasional Carolina and LSU fans, and even non-SEC school types. And you know what? I'm enjoying it. Sure, we're taking our shots now and all, and playing at Florida and at Alabama is going to be rough next year (can't be as rough as '07 though, right?), but...

You're next, Georgia...

-- ... to me.

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