Lane Kiffin Rips Shirts to Help Recruit

Lane Kiffin has done a bunch of kind of silly things since he became the head coach of the Tennessee Volunteers. But none of them can really top his most recent behavior: his coaching staff started ripping their shirts in front of recruits, WWE style.

Seriously. Now, apparently Kiffin didn't actually rip his, but the whole point of the exercise was to get the players pumped. And it worked, according to some of the accounts, even if it started a little awkwardly after an assistant coach told the high schoolers how seriously they take special teams at Tennessee.

"That coach said they get real fired up on special teams and yelled for everybody to 'Get up, get on your feet, and get fired up about special teams.' Then this other coach ripped off his shirt Superman style. It was crazy."

Many in the crowd weren't sure how to react. "The coaches told us to stand up, but nobody really knew what to do. We started clapping, sort of like one of those 'Ah, this feels awkward' kind of things," Volger said.

At this point, apparently the coaches all left and started beating down the doors to the room after dimming the lights (I couldn't make this up if I tried) and when the doors finally opened, "three or four" coaches came running in with their shirts ripped, followed by "around 10" Tennessee players who proceeded to form an impromptu moshpit in the middle of the room.

They were soon joined by the recruits who, apparently, thought this was cool. And maybe it was; but if you're Lane Kiffin and you're going to accuse Urban Meyer of recruiting violations, the least you could do is probably make sure that stories about you having your coaching staff skin up aren't leaking to the media at large.