Here is a great article from The Sporting News in which Lane Kiffin and Nick Saban were askedr about trash talking and the media attention that goes along with it. Not surprisingly the Tide's and Vols' top guys saw the issued differently.
Here is what Coach Saban had to say:
"I try to stay out of the spotlight. I don't try to sensationalize anybody. I'm not trying to entertain. I'm trying to give information and give access to me and tell about our program. I want to represent our organization in the first-class way and be the kind of role model and leader than other people can emulate.
"The way I look at it is, if you don't want somebody to know something, don't say it. If you don't want them to see you do something, don't do it.
"None of this (coaches' jaw-jacking) do I know a lot about because I don't pay much attention to it. What somebody else does, I don't have a lot of control over."
And here's what Kiffin had to say:
"All this stuff about media attention, well, look at the result so far. Top 10 recruiting class, #1 player in the country, first time it has ever happened at Tennessee. I don't think it's very hard to figure out, that if the other stuff didn't happen, our recruiting success doesn't happen.
"You don't go 5-7, you don't come in and not have your staff signed until one month before signing day and have the success we have recruiting without that national attention.
"I don't love the way that I've had to do everything. But I was not hired to please fans of other schools. I was hired for three people: the people of Tennessee, our current players and recruits."
