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FOOTBALL: Quick notes from Sunday's Kiffin teleconference (audio only)

Defense was dominant and played with great effort, very physical. Limited explosive plays. South Carolina’s longest pass play was 17 yards.

Offensively, left an amazing amount of yards in the pass game out there. Dart missed a few big throws down the field, had others that should have been made. Could’ve been well over 400 yards passing. Was frustrating on film.

Wells turnover was disappointing, handing away seven points. Outside of that, Rebels protected the ball and didn’t let South Carolina thrive off turnovers, which is something they like to do. That was a critical part of the game.

On Tre Harris:

Weren’t close to putting him back in. Knew at half he was out. Doesn’t know a whole lot more yet. That report comes later tonight.

On not overreacting to Kentucky loss:

Kentucky is a really good team, great defense, had Georgia to the wire. Weren’t going to change a million things when still had chances late in the game. Had to correct defensive penalties, did a much better job there. Played some different coverages there. Pete Golding did a really good job.

On emphasis on fun:

Learned a lot from his dad, from North Carolina State on. Learned some from Pete Carroll. Wanted to create an atmosphere players wanted to be at, not had to be at.

It’s very easy to be a conservative coach. As soon as you lose, it’s because you dunk or because you do TikTok with your daughter. Lots of criticism of everything when you lose.


On possibility of a 3-loss SEC team making playoffs:

I don’t concern myself with that. If they take into account conference people play in, it could happen.

It’s easier now for people to correct rosters faster. The QB position is so important and the ability to go get quarterbacks may take a team that barely makes a bowl game go undefeated. Quarterback can completely change a team.

On distributing the ball:

A couple of times South Carolina doubled Tre, and that led to other guys getting open. Kentucky also deserves credit. “They’re a problem,” Kiffin said. Lots of opportunities missed in passing game on Saturday.

Is the book out

On the Heupel offense?

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@tsiskey id love to hear your thoughts on the pod tomorrow. Oddly enough it seems Austin Peay was the first team to execute this with any success last year, it was 7-6 at halftime. Since then A&M, NC state, OU and Arkansas have tried this and it has worked, not so much for NC state but they tried. @RunThePower would love your thoughts as well sir and if there’s any Ole Miss relation I’d love to hear that as well.

Faking injuries Conspiracy

TLDR. TV Executives are evil.


Faking Injuries is unsportsmanlike and an embarrassment to the game. In fact it’s a crime committed against the game of football. And what do all crimes have? Motive.

Now the obvious motive we all think it is that whenever there’s a big play the coaches tell a guy to go down to get a break or kill tempo. This is ridiculously obvious. Too obvious to be the case.

Now some of the smarter posters have said that Kiffin orders the players to do it because this crime against the game needs to be banned and fixed with a rule. Because our coach would never do this just to selfishly help his team win games. And if the powers that be won’t fix it then Kiffin will show them why it must be. While I wish this were true this is sadly not the case.

So if players aren’t faking injuries to win or fix it forever then why is this crime being committed? Well who has motive? Who benefits? The TV networks of course! What really happens every time a player goes down? An unplanned TV timeout! More ads. More money to the conference’s corporate partner ESPN and the Mouse.

We already know they met in smoke filled back rooms to end the clock being stopped on first down to “shorten the games.” Have they been shortened? Of course not! We just get more commercials instead! And before that? They ruined the best overtime rules we ever had for “player safety.” No more 7 OT classics like Ole Miss-Arkansas or Texas A&M-LSU. No more football on the tv they can’t cut away from or not being able to move on to the next game for more commercials.

ESPN and Disney are the true reason JJ Pegues has gone down 20 times this season. They get more money from Home Depot and Pizza Hut and they didn’t even have to wait for a turnover or touchdown. They get free time to make more money while Pat “treats” the players. Our players and Lane Kiffin are just patsies for the real criminals in college football. TV Executives.
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