Lane Kiffin has message for his team after seeing Nick Saban’s comments on Ole Miss
By Keith Farner
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Alabama coach Nick Saban precedes Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin on the SEC coaches media teleconference on Wednesdays, so Kiffin has a moment or two to digest the comments from his former boss and the coach of the Crimson Tide.
Kiffin responded on Twitter to a recap story of Saban’s comments with a pair of emojis of a rat and a poison signal. This is an obvious reference to a comment by Saban in 2017 when he said this:
“All that stuff you write about how good we are, all that stuff they hear on ESPN, it’s like poison,” Saban said. “It’s like taking poison. Like rat poison. I’m asking them, are you going to listen to me, or are you going to listen to these guys about how good you are. Just like your question now, like we get stopped three out of four times, like that’s a bad thing. We’re not going to beat everybody 66-3.”
His explanation is that all of the positive media coverage eventually gets in the heads of Alabama players and changes the way they approach the game.
This should spice up the pregame meeting between the teams this week when they meet in Oxford.
🐀 ☠️ @AlabamaFTBL https://t.co/FvYwdQGCej
— Lane Kiffin (@Lane_Kiffin) October 7, 2020
A former newspaper veteran, Keith Farner is a news manager for Saturday Down South.
