Wiedmer: Kiffin's Voluneers look better every day

  • Mark Wiedmer, Chattanooga Times Free-Press
  • Posted November 8, 2009 at 10:14 a.m.
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KNOXVILLE -- You always want to win your homecoming game. Especially when you're a first-year coach replacing an alum who was something of a legend and not exactly happy to no longer be in charge.

So Tennessee blowing up Memphis 56-28 on Saturday night couldn't have been more perfect for Lane Kiffin. Or a better sign that the school made the right move in pushing Phillip Fulmer to the curb last autumn.

After all, it was on this precise weekend last year -- Fulmer's firing less than six days old -- that the Vols stunningly lost to Wyoming, the clearest signal possible that the change was needed.

A year later, Kiffin and Co. made sure there would be no embarrassing reprise of that defeat. The Vols led 14-0 in less than six minutes and 21-0 early in the second quarter.

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