Wednesday PM Kiffin Carousel Update

From what we've been able to gather, the Kiffins boarded a USC booster's Gulfstream G-IV at Tyson Field in Knoxville close to 2:00 eastern time.

It was set to land at its destination about an hour ago ((7:15 edt))

OSG Sports can't confirm the flight number, but it looks like this one... thanks to our friends at Flightaware...

The Kiffin-USC coronation was set to begin at 8:30 EDT, but we figure it'll be closer to 9:00 so it will get the most play on the 6:00 local newscasts...

Vols AD Mike Hamilton is now on the clock and in the crosshairs after having run interference for Kiffin with all the on-campus shenanigans that went on the last 14 months...

He thinks he'll have a new head coach in play by the weekend...
((HT: Knoxville News-Sentinel))


"I’m out there to get the best candidate, whatever that looks like," Hamilton said. Hamilton also said that, to his knowledge, Philip Fulmer was not approached in any way.

Here was the first salvo of media coverage from our friends at WVLT-TV Knoxville...

This story we stumbled over is a really cool one...

A Knoxville retailer is donating all of their Kiffin-based UT apparel to the recovery efforts in Haiti. A place called HoundDogs was offering a 20-percent discount to anyone who even brought in the Kiffin gear for the cause...

For any of you interested, their info is here...

More to come after the coronation... and the HQ's money is on Troy Calhoun of Air Force since, if he were to leave his program, there really would be no real recruting losses- since the Air Force Academy doesn't really recruit...

Both Will Muschamp and Gary Patterson have said publicly they're not interested in moving to Knoxville this close to National Signing Day...