Lane Kiffin is still talking

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It seems Lane Kiffin just can’t help but give his opinion. The University of Tennessee football coach was back in the news today, sparring again with Florida nemesis Urban Meyer and also weighing in to give Washington Coach Steve Sarkisian, a former co-worker, some friendly advice after the Huskies’ upset over USC.

Responding to earlier comments by Meyer that Tennessee didn’t appear to be playing to win Saturday and that his own team was battling the flu, Kiffin at first said he would not respond. But then, after he was asked whether he was worried about the Volunteers being struck by the flu, he said, ‘I don’t know. I guess we’ll wait, and after we’re not excited about a performance, we’ll tell you everybody was sick.’

Kiffin also said, ‘This off-season [Southeastern Conference Commissioner Mike Slive] made a big deal of renewing vows in terms of what we say about other teams, other coaches and other players. Obviously, Urban feels he doesn’t need to follow that. We won’t say anything else.’

Well, that would be a first.

As for what Kiffin told Sarkisian, it came via a text message, one of many received by the first-year Huskies coach after Washington downed USC, 16-13, on Saturday.

According to Sarkisian, it read: ‘Well, you should retire now.’

-- Mike Hiserman