Jay Kersting's Blog

My position is unique, so I may be MORE pissed!!

First, the background.

Those who have known me for a while know that I am a huge fan of the University of Southern California.  I have travelled thousands of miles to get to many USC games.  I even obtained a student ID back in 1993 so that I could get season tickets at the student rates.  This loyal is due to my older brother who gave me t-shirts and sweatshirt as gifts going back to 1987.

For now, that support goes on hold.

I am an alumnus of the University of Tennessee.  I am a proud Tennessee Volunteer.  Ten years ago this week, I enrolled in my first classes at UT.  My support of the Volunteers goes back to my first game in 1997, homecoming against Southern Mississippi.

I yelled and screamed in my townhouse on 4 January 1999 when the Vols beat Florida State for the National Championship.

I covered the Vols from 2001 until 2006, so I developed a skeptical eye regarding the program.  But I always loved my alma mater.  Some questioned who I would support between USC and Tennessee.  I always answered the Vols.

Now, more than ever, I am absolutely in support of the Vols.

I almost became a convert to Lane Kiffin.  I liked some of the brash words.  But I never fully converted over to him. 

I think that Lane Kiffin is lower than a mussel. 

You see, a mussel is the lowest form of life on earth.  It trolls along the bottom of the ocean and eats whale shit.

USC was my number two school.  Now, they are simply number two.

Until Mike Garrett, a man who really needed a better helmet during his playing days, and Lane Kiffin leave USC, I will root against them on occasion.  I hate to root for failure, but with those two jokers in charge, I have to.

What I do know is this.  Mike Hamilton is a good and decent man who will find a great new football coach for the Vols.  I hate that he has so little time to do this right.

Finally, I know that Lane Kiffin is not worthy to walk the same ground as Pat Summitt and Bruce Pearl.

But he also isn’t worthy of walking the same sidelines as Howard Jones, John McKay and even Pete Carroll.