This situation sucks for Kiffin in a lot of ways. Can he even comment on Evan Berry - I would think not. Even though we haven't offered a scholarship (because we can't for several years), I would guess that he still can't really comment on a kid he hopes to eventually recruit. Evan made some comments to a reporter, and now ESPN and others are going nuts over this "publicity stunt." From the knoxville news sentinel article, it doesn't even sound like Kiffin had anything to do with it, or even knew about it....it was just Evan commenting to a reporter that he was committed to UT. Evan doesn't have a scholarship article, therefore it can't be an official commitment (whatever that even means these days)...so how can this be listed as "yet another publicity stunt."
Bad reporting...period.