Posted by ESPN.com's Chris Low

The Pahokee High School campus is off limits to Tennessee coach Lane Kiffin and his assistants as far as school principal Ariel Alejo is concerned.

That is, until Kiffin comes to Pahokee personally and apologizes to school and community leaders for some of his not-so-flattering comments back in February concerning Pahokee.

One of the Vols' assistants, Eddie Gran, was reportedly told by Alejo that no one from Tennessee is allowed on the high school grounds until Kiffin satisfies certain demands -- namely coming to Pahokee and apologizing publicly. Kiffin has already apologized to Pahokee coach Blaze Thompson, but Alejo wants him to take it a step further.

Among the things Kiffin was quoted as saying after prying Pahokee receiver Nu'Keese Richardson away from Florida on signing day was: "For those of you who haven't been to Pahokee, there ain't much going on. You take that hour drive up from South Florida, there ain't a gas station that works. Nobody's got enough money to even have shoes or a shirt on."

Those are incredibly stupid things to say about any community.

Kiffin also implied that officials at Pahokee High School would have somehow sabotaged Richardson's scholarship papers had Richardson's family not faxed the scholarship papers from another school.

Again, stupid.

Remember, too, that it's not the first time Kiffin has been accused of trashing a community or even an entire state. South Carolina signee Alshon Jeffery and his coach, Walter Wilson, both said Kiffin told Jeffery during an early-morning phone conversation on signing day that he would be pumping gas for the rest of his life like all the other players from the state of South Carolina if he signed with the Gamecocks.

Kiffin has steadfastly denied making those comments.

But back to the Pahokee situation. Alejo, who has not returned phone messages by ESPN.com, might have more at stake here than just Pahokee having its feelings hurt by Kiffin's ill-advised comments.

If you go to Alejo's bio page on the school's official Web site, his e-mail address is flanked by a Gators logo.

There's nothing quite like recruiting in the SEC.