College football notebook: SEC reprimands Lane Kiffin, Dan Mullen
By The Associated Press
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Published: October 27, 2009
Tennessee’s Lane Kiffin and Mississippi State’s Dan Mullen were reprimanded Monday by the Southeastern Conference for criticizing officials, raising the number of coaches to be scolded by the league for knocking game officiating to three in the last week.
For Kiffin, it was the second time this year he has been reprimanded by the league. SEC commissioner Mike Slive said Kiffin could be suspended if he violates conference rules again. Vanderbilt coach Bobby Johnson also weighed in on the officiating Monday after he had some questions about calls made in his game against South Carolina. Johnson said he’d like to speak with SEC coordinator of officials Rogers Redding. "I think I’d have to get in line,” Johnson said. All this came a week after one SEC crew was suspended after it called penalties that the league said were not support by video evidence in the LSU-Georgia game on Oct. 3 and the Arkansas-Florida game on Oct. 17.
Gabbert will start for Missouri
Missouri coach Gary Pinkel said QB Blaine Gabbert merely "tweaked” his sprained right ankle Saturday and will start this week at Colorado. Missouri (4-3, 0-3 Big 12) will be without starting middle linebacker Luke Lambert for Saturday’s game at Colorado (2-5, 1-2). Lambert separated his shoulder against Texas.
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→Iowa: Adam Robinson, the No. 7 Hawkeyes’ top running back, will miss Saturday’s game against Indiana with an ankle injury.
→Florida: Running back Jeff Demps is wearing a neck brace, but coach Urban Meyer expects him to play Saturday against Georgia.
→Michigan: University President Mary Sue Coleman says the NCAA has given the school a notice of inquiry and will keep looking into allegations against the football program. The investigation stems from an August report in the Detroit Free Press in which anonymous players said the amount of time they spent in the Rich Rodriguez-led program during the season and in the offseason exceeded NCAA limits.
→Cincinnati: QB Tony Pike is having the cast on his left arm modified so he’ll have a better chance to play Saturday at Syracuse.
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most of those old homer Texas crews. All though these gun-ho, new kids on the block
crews, with their, "I'm in charge attitude" are just as bad. There is something to be said
about the fix being on.