Ole Miss’ social team trolled Hugh Freeze on Twitter. Then, the tweets were deleted. Now, Lane Kiffin and Keith Carter are apologizing.

Ole Miss offered a strong entry into the hot trend “postgame Twitter trolling” celebrating the Rebels’ 27-14 win Saturday over Freeze’s Liberty Flames by captioning the final score with a reference to Freeze’s infamous “compliance” tweet from his days as the Rebels head coach.

The now-deleted tweet read:

If you have complaints about this result, send it to lufootball@liberty.edu. If not, please do not slander these young men or insult their family.

The account also tweeted the memorable photo of Freeze, at Liberty, coaching from a hospital bed and raising a thumbs up. That tweet was also deleted.

In his comments to ESPN’s Chris Low, Kiffin offered an apology.

“I have no affiliation with the Ole Miss football Twitter site, even though it may sound strange, and I first learned about the tweets after my press conference when Keith Carter told me about them,” Kiffin told ESPN. “I’m completely embarrassed that anyone would put something out there like that making it look like it was a part of Ole Miss football. It was extremely disrespectful, bush league and classless, and I apologize, even though I had nothing to do with it, to Liberty and Hugh Freeze.”

Carter, the Ole Miss athletic director, said he had the tweets deleted after finding out about them.

“These tweets were unfortunate and not who we are in Ole Miss athletics,” Carter told ESPN. “When I found out about them, they were immediately taken down. I have spoken with (Liberty athletic director) Ian McCaw to relay my sincere apology. We will work to do better in the future.”