It was nice to see Lane Kiffin and Kyle Busch finally get theirs. Nobody likes a loudmouth, especially one that cannot back it up. That is a pretty solid way to describe both these figures out of the sports world.

For the sports world-naďve like my bride, Lane Kiffin is the coach of the Tennessee Volunteer football team and Kyle Busch is a NASCAR hotshot. Both suffer from the foot-in-mouth disease, which begs the question “Why?”

Kiffin called everybody out but his mother when he took the job in Knoxville. It was not as if this guy had won a Super Bowl ring during his brief tenure as Head Coach of the Oakland Raiders. It was not as if he was some kind of a terrific athlete either. He was a so-so quarterback at mighty Fresno State University, giving up his senior season to become a Student Assistant Coach.

To be fair, Kiffin rode the coattails of his more famous father, Monte Kiffin, who has since joined his son as Defensive Coordinator for the Vols. After getting whipped by visiting UCLA in their second game of the year, the highly touted “cover-two” defense that the senior Kiffin so proudly plays has about as many holes in it as some of the junior Kiffin’s comments.

In fact, about the only thing the boisterous Kiffin can tout was a brief stint as a Recruiting Coordinator at Southern Cal. To be fair, they should have called it “Selection Coordinator” because every kid in talent-rich California who has a lick of talent at all is begging for an opportunity to play at USC just to get on the NFL radar screen.

Still Kiffin ticked everybody off from South Carolina Coach Steve Spurrier to Florida Coach Urban Meyer, and then pretended that these guys do not have the memory of an elephant. He kept the game close when the Vols went to Florida to face the Gators and some even called it a moral victory. No, it was a loss and is still a loss, even if it was not a 30 point loss. One hundred years from now, it will still be a loss, so you can put your foot back in your big mouth Lane.

Why did Kiffin think that mouthing off was the right way to open his career at a program like Tennessee’s? Not only did he embarrass many Volunteer supporters but if memory serves me, the Vols recently canned a National Championship Coach because they have no tolerance for winning less than an SEC championship and a major bowl game. We shall see how long the obnoxious Lane survives before they get out the hook in Knoxville.

That brings us to the other noisy mouth that recently got a nice dose of medicine, Kyle Busch. Busch enjoys calling out Dale Earnhardt, Jr. for having such a lousy year, getting in an obvious dig at the man who took his place after Busch got canned from Hendrick Motorsports’ NASCAR team two years ago.

Busch hates losing, but he is just that- the first loser who gets to join the man he called out for mediocrity – Dale Earnhardt, Jr. He even called out his own pit crew. It’s never Kyle’s fault when he loses.

Even though he did win four races this year, he missed NASCAR’s chase by just eight points because of his many below average runs, losing out in The Chase to Brian Vickers. He also blew a huge lead in last year’s chase, so he is pretty good at folding under pressure.

Busch is so unlikable that I have given up eating M & M’s because he represents them. I hope that gets back to the M & M folks. They do not need an idiot representing them.

So both Busch and Kiffin seem to be getting theirs, which makes those of us who do not like a loud mouth happy.

Perhaps both these men will acquire a bit of maturity and “grow up” as your mother used to tell you when you were young and brash. And then again, perhaps they are too stupid to do that, which means they are one lousy season away from oblivion.