The End of an Era (A Brief One)

So, it's Tuesday night and I'm laying down with my three-year old daughter Lillian, who is fighting off the early stages of pneumonia. 

Lillian is coughing, and we are watching a movie.   I'm about to nod off to sleep when the phone rings.

It's my mother-in-law... she calls to inform me that Lane Kiffin has just resigned as the head coach of the Tennessee Volunteers.

The biggest story of the year... and I learn about it from Mary Ann Wright of Kingston.

I spent the next hour and a half watching colleagues Jim Wogan, Prentice Elliott, Kristin Farley, Lori Tucker, Jill McNeal and others relay all the breaking news to the good people of East Tennessee, and beyond (thanks wate.com!).

This is how the Lane Kiffin era ended for me.  Can you call 14 months with almost as many secondary violations as there were victories an era?

Whomever Tennessee hires to replace Kiffin (Gruden?  Muschamp?  Cutcliffe?  Calhoun?  Nutt?), it is hard to imagine a situation occuring with the Vols football program which has as much continual drama is this one did.

Never a dull moment on the local sports scene.

Oh, by the way, Lillian's fever is going down (yea!), but 4 month old Emily has developed a cough (boo!).  There's never a dull moment at the Nagi family estates either...