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Lane Kiffin has been the head coach at USC for a few days but he and a member of his staff may already be guilty of multiple NCAA rules violations.
Ed Orgeron, who was Kiffin's associate head coach/defensive line coach/recruiting coordinator at Tennessee just took the same job at USC under Kiffin. But before leaving Tennessee, using a University of Tennessee issued cell phone, he reportedly made phone calls many Tennessee recruits who were mid-year enrolled students already on the Tennessee campus. He urged the enrolled players NOT to attend the first day of class yesterday, so they would still be eligible to transfer to USC without having to sit out a year by NCAA transfer rules.
It is being investigated whether he may also have called high school recruits who had committed to Tennessee and tried to get them to switch to USC.
Further complicating the issue surrounding these phone calls is that this is currently an NCAA "Dead Period" when phone calls initiated by college coaches are banned completely.
Ed Orgeron, who was Kiffin's associate head coach/defensive line coach/recruiting coordinator at Tennessee just took the same job at USC under Kiffin. But before leaving Tennessee, using a University of Tennessee issued cell phone, he reportedly made phone calls many Tennessee recruits who were mid-year enrolled students already on the Tennessee campus. He urged the enrolled players NOT to attend the first day of class yesterday, so they would still be eligible to transfer to USC without having to sit out a year by NCAA transfer rules.
It is being investigated whether he may also have called high school recruits who had committed to Tennessee and tried to get them to switch to USC.
Further complicating the issue surrounding these phone calls is that this is currently an NCAA "Dead Period" when phone calls initiated by college coaches are banned completely.
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