Is Lane Kiffin Assembling Tennessee's Version of the Dirty Dozen?

Lane Kiffin seems to be skirting the boundaries of normality when it comes to running a college football program. First, Kiffin trash talks and makes unfounded accusations of cheating toward rival coaches.

Then, he goes about building his team by throwing out common sensibilities and allowing certain, shall we say, characters, to attend the University of Tennessee on a football scholarship.

His staff also reflects his "screw-the-rules approach" to college football.

To start with, he brings in Ed Orgeron as his chief of staff, so to speak. Coach "O" is a man who was accused of domestic violence in Florida and battery stemming from a bar fight in Louisiana. He was said to have ripped his shirt off while coach at Ole Miss and challenged anyone on the team to take him on.

Kiffin then decides to allow Daniel Hood, who participated in the rape and sodomy of a 14-year-old girl, to join the Volunteers, and now, there are rumors that former Miami Hurricane's quarterback, Robert Marve, will transfer to Tennessee.

Marve, who has already had a brush with the authorities in Florida, doesn't feel the need to attend classes much of the time, and now wants to transfer to the SEC's version of the Oakland Raiders, and who can blame him? He will fit right in.

Someone needs to ask Lane Kiffin this question.

What are you trying to do in Knoxville—put together the University of Tennessee's version of The Dirty Dozen?

For those of you not familiar with the original Dirty Dozen, it was a feature film released in 1967. It starred a bunch of renegade actors playing a bunch of renegade soldiers in World War II. 

In the film, the army needed a group of disposable soldiers to send on a suicide mission against a well fortified German position to kill as many of the Nazi leadership as possible.

Someone at H.Q. came up with the idea of using misfits and criminals to do the job. They were called The Dirty Dozen!

For the purposes of my remake of this classic, Lee Marvin who played Major Reisman, a loose cannon that doesn't follow the rules, will be played by Kiffin.

Playing the part of Col. Everett Dasher Breed, played by Robert Ryan in the original, will be played by Tennessee's Athletic Director Mike Hamilton. Breed was hoodwinked and played for a fool by Marvin's/Kiffin's character—I think that says it all. 

Finally, Orgeron will be playing Ernest Borgnine's part as General Worden just because they look and act so much alike to me. Checkout Coach "O" at 40 seconds into this clip.

Really, I think Coach "O" should play the part of Archer Maggott, played by Telly Savalas, because they are both crazy. Checkout Archer Maggott at 2 minutes 30 seconds into this clip.

General Worden would of course be played by Monte Kiffin because he is the one who is actually in charge in Knoxville right now.

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