Kiffin Wants Apology from Spurrier

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DESTIN, Fla. – Finally made it to the Sandestin Hilton after a long day of flight delays, low visibility and high stress. Won’t bore you with all the particulars. And certainly can’t say I was the only person inconvenienced: Kentucky coach Rich Brooks was strolling through the C terminal at the Atlanta airport only a couple hours before the football coaches were scheduled to meet here. The highly anticipated football coaches meeting, that is. For the first time since I’ve been covering these SEC spring meetings, the Sandestin posted a security guard outside the conference rooms – ostensibly to keep the media at bay, not to break up any potential scuffles. UT coach Lane Kiffin, sort of the firecracker at these meetings, met with the media earlier. When asked if he planned to apologize to Urban Meyer in person for accusing the Florida coach of cheating, Kiffin said he was still waiting for an apology from USC coach Steve Spurrier – for questioning whether Kiffin had taken the NCAA recruiting test after Kiffin was hired (a question that took on more relevance as Kiffin tripped over recruiting rules). Kiffin also said that Vols strength coach Mark Smith, formerly of USC, remains employed at UT. But reports out of Knoxville are that Smith and Kiffin have agreed to part ways. It sounds like a settlement is being negotiated. Spurrier has not spoken with the media, yet. Hope to catch him following the meeting. It will be interesting to get the blow-by-blow from what had to be an awkward couple of hours.

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