Lane Kiffin Calls Out Fans Who Left Game Early: "I Don’t Understand It. It’s Frustrating"

by Staff Reporter

September 9, 20246 Comments

Ole Miss got a convincing 52-3 win over Middle Tennessee on Saturday night, but head coach Lane Kiffin with Vaught Hemingway Stadium emptying in the second half.

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Coach Kiffin on the importance of home crowd staying the entire game: "I think it's really important for the players. When you come back into the tunnel in the second half, or you’re going into an end zone and look up and see the difference, so I don’t really understand it. Maybe I am kind of naive to it. If a concert is going really well, do you leave? I get if the product is really bad and you come back out in the second half and the stadium is half empty. I understand when it’s a bad product. But I don't understand it. I think it's pretty entertaining to watch a team play well. When you have that a week ago and think that here after the QB threw in the first half for 350 yards and 5 TDs, the first in the SEC since Joe Burrow to do that. And then you have the most accurate streak in the history of the SEC and the stadium is half empty and the No. 6 team in America, I don’t understand it. It’s frustrating. But I can’t control it. I’m just disappointed for our players. I thought it was good weather. And I’ve heard too hot, heard rain, heard too cold, heard hunting season. I’ve heard all the reasons but don’t know what this one was."