WBIR-TV in Knoxville reports today that “freshman safety Nyshier Oliver was arrested on November 7 and charged with shoplifting at a department store in West Town Mall.”
The police report says Oliver was spotted putting a brown shirt worth approximately $110 in a Dillard’s bag. He was arrested around 1:45 that Saturday. That was just over five hours before the Vols were to play Memphis in the homecoming game at Neyland Stadium. Oliver will have an arraignment in the matter on November 23rd.
November 7? But didn’t Lane Kiffin trumpet the Vols’ clean arrest record after that date? Here’s Kiffin on Nov. 12, five days after Oliver was arrested and the day before the arrest of Nu’Keese Richardson, Mike Edwards and Janzen Jackson on robbery charges:
But Kiffin didn’t stop there. He lied again.
He made the same statement again a day later, in response to the arrest of Richardson, Edwards and Jackson. From the NEW YORK TIMES:
The first-year coach Lane Kiffin made no comment on the arrests, but he noted that “we made it 11 months and 11 days” without any incidents. Kiffin’s predecessor, Phillip Fulmer, was often criticized for being too lax with discipline.
ESPN.com’s Chris Low reports today on the Oliver arrest:
Oliver’s punishment was handled internally, but he was taken off the dress roster for that game and banned from team activities, according to Tennessee athletic department spokesperson Tiffany Carpenter.
So Kiffin knew about the arrest, and he blatantly lied to the media twice about the Vols’ clean arrest record. Brutal.
*UPDATE*: Vols fans aren’t lost on Kiffin’s dishonesty.
7:07 pm on November 17th, 2009
Kiffin is a thug.
7:22 pm on November 17th, 2009
It’s pretty funny to hear the bullsh*t that streams from his piehole….
11:52 pm on November 17th, 2009
Lame Kiffin…frickin jerk, everytime I see him he always has that smug, punk @ss look on his face.
12:32 am on November 18th, 2009
“We’ve had zero arrests in 11 months here”
Always a warm fuzzy for me
7:35 am on November 18th, 2009
just show me his wife
10:34 am on November 18th, 2009
The shoplifting was a citation not an arrest.
12:59 pm on November 18th, 2009
Dillards bag….is he related to Peter warrick or L Coles?
3:21 pm on November 18th, 2009
You have to love american sports, especially basketball and football. “Hey, how is the team doing?” “Great, no one has been arrested this year, yet.”
What kind of thugs are they letting into the program, where is a great thing that there have been no arrests for the team this year?
As for the Coach telling flat out lies, repeatedly, that is just great. He is a real role model.
Ridiculous, in every way.
5:17 pm on November 18th, 2009
GDog already said it. But he should have said, hey dumbass, it was a citation NOT an arrest.
6:02 pm on November 18th, 2009
Does ‘banned from team activities’ mean he was kept off the robbery detail..
6:06 pm on November 18th, 2009
He shoulda mentioned the citation cuz it sounds good. We have no arrests AND may I add, we earned a citation as well.
9:33 pm on November 18th, 2009
He was not arrested.
http://www.govolsxtra.com/news/2009/nov/18/kiffin-says-oliver-issue-wasnt-arrest/