After removing freshmen Nu'Keese Richardson and Mike Edwards from the Tennessee football program on Monday, head coach Lane Kiffin had no speculation or decision on the status of freshman safety Janzen Jackson at his weekly Tuesday press conference.

"I don't have any expectation on that at all," Kiffin said. "We will continue to get information and make a decision once we have the information."

"We do not have all his information. I can't get into too much detail on it, but I think that the easiest thing to look at is he was released right away and was treated different in the manner by what happened."

Kiffin noted that, though the decision to release Richardson and Edwards from the team was an extremely hard decision, it was a decision that had to be made.

"It was a very difficult decision. These are two kids ... that we recruited, that we sat with their parents and the people around them in their house. This has been very tough on me. Our No. 1 rule is to protect the team, and so as the head coach I have to make decisions that sometimes I don't want to do," said Kiffin.

"It was a sad day yesterday for those two kids, and I wish them the best of luck. They obviously made a very poor decision, but we cannot allow that to be part of our team. That decision-making can't be anywhere near what we are doing."

No Sunday Practice

Kiffin was sure to note that the mood of the program after the 42-17 loss at Ole Miss and the legal incidents of the past five days did not affect the cancellation of the Vols' regular Sunday practice.

"It's the fourth quarter of the season and in order to have great practices Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, I think guys do wear down. We don't do very much on Sunday anyway. We go out and do some corrections and move around a little bit, so we didn't go out just to keep them off their feet," said Kiffin.

"As far as their mood, in the meeting we made sure to point out, 'This is what happened in the game.' The score is what it is, but where did it go wrong?"

Failure to Finish

The Vols couldn't have picked a worst time to have their poorest fourth quarter performance of the year on Saturday against Ole Miss. The Vols gave up 14 fourth quarter points in the 42-17 loss.

"We start the third quarter and we go down and kick a field goal, get inside the 10 and kick a field goal, come back get a turnover, get the ball back and don't get any points out of it even though we are in their territory. Then it kind of goes downhill from there. We play the worst quarter of the season as a team in the fourth quarter. So we are very disappointed in that."

Prior to Saturday Tennessee had only given up 10 fourth quarter points in its last four games. The Vols had allowed on 23 fourth quarter points in their previous eight games.

"We have been a great fourth-quarter team almost all year long. We want to focus on what went wrong and correcting that, but also continue to remind them this is what happened. If we finish these series right here it's a completely different game."