NCAA to hit Kiffin, Vols with ‘failure to monitor’ violation

Tennessee still can’t escape the lingering effects of Lane Kiffin‘s one-year tenure on Rocky Top. In an excellent piece appearing on the AOL Fanhouse website Wednesday evening, writer Clay Travis writes that the “NCAA will cite the University of Tennessee's football program with a failure to monitor a violation stemming” from Kiffin’s time at the school. Additionally, the NCAA will cite Kiffin, as well as former UT assistant David Reaves, personally with a 'failure to monitor' violation. The alleged violations stems from the now-disbanded Orange Pride program, including hostesses who allegedly made improper contact with potential recruits, as well as Reaves himself allegedly making improper contact with recruits. Travis writes that "the NCAA has determined that Reaves… provided written and oral instruction to the Vol hostesses about which top recruits to contact, how to contact them, and asked for updates on those conversations, which occurred either via Facebook, text message or phone call."