FanHouse T.K. Wetherell

The 695-page transcript of the NCAA's committee on infractions meeting with Florida State in October 2008 in Indianapolis failed to answer one lingering mystery. Come on now, where did the black binder from Brenda Monk's office disappear to? There's also more intrigue, wink-wink, in the NCAA documents released Wednesday as the result of a news media lawsuit.

To think that FSU President T.K. Wetherell and the NCAA played so nicely together, with Wetherell going as far as to say in his closing comments that the pair's working relationship to come to a resolution in the university's academic fraud case would be a "classic case study" for others to review.

And if a pig had wings.

That honeymoon ended last month on Labor Day, when Wetherell went on national television before the FSU-Miami season opener and described the NCAA's dealings with the university as "bait-and-switch." The NCAA, of course, thought about it and fired back two days later and basically said Wetherell was out of his mind.

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Every Monday during college football's endless offseason, The FanHouse Walk will put last week's stories to bed and deliver the essentials to bridge that agonizing space between now and September.

You Can't Be Bad All of the Time -- First-year Tennessee football coach Lane Kiffin has built up a tremendous amount of antagonism this offseason. There's nobody to blame but himself, of course, but sometimes you have to give the Devil his due. For all his transgressions, try not to read too much into the story that Tennessee has been witness to 11 player departures. Wherever possible in college athletics, you want to look out for the best interest of the athletes but healthy, successful coaching transitions at big-time football programs almost require a good dose of roster turnover. Whether he's handled it right is up for debate but the raw numbers themselves should not be an indictment of Kiffin.

Florida State held a press conference on Wednesday, making public its appeal against an NCAA penalty demanding the program vacate any football victories achieved with academically ineligible players via its recent academic scandal. Things went well for the first half hour until school President T.K. Wetherell turned into a cartoon character with red eyes and steam coming out of his ears. The public was then witness to an administrator dropping four-letter words and a bizarre, sarcastic sabotage plot against Florida and Tim Tebow.

Unsolicited, Wetherell declared, "Now, we understand all the rest of it. We've heard [Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel writer Mike] Bianchi over there saying, well, hell, 31 wins don't count anyway because they were at some dips**t school."

Wetherell was referring to football coach Bobby Bowden's dubious 1-AA victories at Samford (previously Howard University) before arriving at Florida State. Things only got better from there.