Lane Kiffin putting Vols through dress rehearsal

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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP)—Tennessee coach Lane Kiffin wants to know how his Volunteers will perform in a game before he sets his starters.

That’s why he’s treating Saturday’s scrimmage exactly like the first game of the year, down to the 12:21 p.m. kickoff and music played over the speakers at Neyland Stadium.

“This will be more important than any that they’ve done. It’s most realistic,” Kiffin said. “They will have no excuses not to perform to the best of their ability, so we’ll figure out where we are as a team, where we are individually.”

Nobody has more to prove in this dress rehearsal than quarterbacks Jonathan Crompton and Nick Stephens.

The pair has taken nearly the same number of snaps and thrown nearly the same number of passes through two and a half weeks of fall practice, and Kiffin said neither has separated himself from the other.

Though he likes the competition, he also would like to have a starter settled.

“Six months ago, that’s what I would have liked,” Kiffin said of naming his starter. “As soon as it shows, it will show.”

The competition has been running far longer than fall camp. Crompton, a senior, and Stephens, a junior, spent all of last season vying for the job. Both made six starts in 2008, posting mediocre passing numbers.

Kiffin doesn’t want the competition to go into Tennessee’s week of preparation before the Sept. 5 opener against Western Kentucky, so he’s likely to pick a starter quickly after digesting the results of Saturday’s scrimmage.
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Another article along the same lines.

Other than lacking 100,000 fans, a marching band and TV commercial breaks, Tennessee hopes to simulate a game-day experience at Neyland Stadium today.

In the form of a 12:21 p.m. scrimmage - 14 days to the minute before the Lane Kiffin Era kicks off - the Vols will hold what will be essentially a last full-contact audition for starting jobs.

"This will be more important than anything they've done,'' said Kiffin, not one for understatement.

"They will have no excuses not to perform to the best of their abilities. We'll figure out where we are as a team in all three phases.''
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I like how he is calling these scrimmages "pre-season games" and running this scrimmage at 12:21. Very business-like and smart.
 
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We should all know that CLK is business like i mean all his coaches have NFL experience im telling you watch out for us to win 9 this year:rock:
 
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I totally agree. I just think that our approach and playcalling will make a world of difference this year. The Vols should have been at the least 7-5 (UCLA and Auburn should have been wins and you could probably throw in Wyoming for our "should have been" 8th win). I look for 8 wins and shocking all those naysayers who think that this will be a disaster year for the Vols.

Any updates on the scrimmage?
 
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give_him 6 said:
I totally agree. I just think that our approach and playcalling will make a world of difference this year. The Vols should have been at the least 7-5 (UCLA and Auburn should have been wins and you could probably throw in Wyoming for our "should have been" 8th win). I look for 8 wins and shocking all those naysayers who think that this will be a disaster year for the Vols.

Any updates on the scrimmage?
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Check the scrimmage thread.
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