DESTIN, Fla. (AP)—Southeastern Conference commissioner Mike Slive didn’t use notes and didn’t know how long he spoke. His message to his football coaches and athletic directors Wednesday couldn’t be clearer: Stop the public verbal sparring of the past few months. Now.
“I had all 5-9, 170 pounds of me into every word I said,” Slive said.
Slive hasn’t been happy about the string of public exchanges over the past few months, almost all involving new Tennessee coach Lane Kiffin.
Coaches said the commissioner didn’t mince words behind closed doors Wednesday during joint session of football coaches and athletic directors at the league’s annual spring business meetings. He once again pointed out that the SEC set principles for all its coaches in 2004.
Read on. It sounds like fucking up Lane Kiffin is on the goal chart everywhere else in the SEC.
