Tennessee has turned down a chance to face Southern California and former Vols coach Lane Kiffin in the 2011 Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game.
Volunteers athletic director Mike Hamilton said it would be too much for the Vols' schedule, which already includes nonconference games against Cincinnati and North Carolina.
"We've got plenty to keep us busy in 2011 already," Hamilton said. "We're building our program back, and our schedule is tough enough as it is. The reality of it is, if it was Texas or UCLA in the Chick-Fil-A Kickoff Game, we just couldn't do it in 2011."
Tennessee is scheduled to face North Carolina State in the 2012 Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game.
• Southern California athletic director Mike Garrett sent letters of apology to Florida, Alabama, Washington, Fresno State and Oregon for accusing those schools of breaking NCAA rules by contacting one of the Trojans' players without permission.
ESPN.com reported that USC filed a complaint with the Pacific-10 Conference in June about several schools tampering with freshman running back Dillon Baxter after the Trojans were hit with NCAA sanctions. In the letter, Garrett said that Baxter confirmed to him that the player "did not receive a call from your institution," and Garrett apologized for "any inconvenience or embarrassment" caused to the schools.
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2011 NCAA College Football Season Kicking Off
Glorious NCAA college football is returning to us. The second week of July is a little better than the first for the same reasons. Football is a little closer. All the preview magazines hit the stands, jerseys hit the stores, your buddies start calling to make football tailgating plans, and EA Sports NCAA Football hits store shelves.
I'm on record as calling EA Sports NCAA Football "Methadone for the College Football Addict." Good lord is it addicting... and entertaining. There's nothing like hanging 90 on your rival school with Akron. There's also nothing like getting your butt handed to you by the computer when you get a little cocky and set the game on it's highest level. No matter. I love it.
So, when EA Sports asked to sponsor a week's worth of posts leading up to the release of NCAA Football 2011 next Tuesday, July 13th, I was more than a little excited. Naturally, I figured there would be a catch. But there really wasn't. EA Sports wasn't interested in telling me what to say, only in sponsoring a series of posts celebrating the diehard fans of the greatest sport in the world: college football.
It's going to be a lot of fun going through this stuff. Frankly, I'm more excited to see how a lot of you became fans, who your favorite players are, and which Michigan teams left the biggest mark on you. And, of course, I want to get your tailgaiting stories in print so I can use them against you at a later date. My thanks to EA for their offer and to you guys for continuing to come back. That's what makes all this possible. Read More!
I'm on record as calling EA Sports NCAA Football "Methadone for the College Football Addict." Good lord is it addicting... and entertaining. There's nothing like hanging 90 on your rival school with Akron. There's also nothing like getting your butt handed to you by the computer when you get a little cocky and set the game on it's highest level. No matter. I love it.
So, when EA Sports asked to sponsor a week's worth of posts leading up to the release of NCAA Football 2011 next Tuesday, July 13th, I was more than a little excited. Naturally, I figured there would be a catch. But there really wasn't. EA Sports wasn't interested in telling me what to say, only in sponsoring a series of posts celebrating the diehard fans of the greatest sport in the world: college football.
It's going to be a lot of fun going through this stuff. Frankly, I'm more excited to see how a lot of you became fans, who your favorite players are, and which Michigan teams left the biggest mark on you. And, of course, I want to get your tailgaiting stories in print so I can use them against you at a later date. My thanks to EA for their offer and to you guys for continuing to come back. That's what makes all this possible. Read More!