Over Under on Ole Miss fake injuries for game 8

[hutchids 227]

I dont know how many of you saw the UT and Bama vs Ole Miss game, but Ole Miss faked tons of injuries to get breaks on defense. My question to you all is how many Ole Miss will fake against us and what impact do you see it having? I'm expecting to see around 5 since Auburn doesn't go hurry up.

[AubieinNC2009 79]

I didnt turn the UT/OM game on until late in the 3rd but I think I counted double digits stops due to injury between the two teams.  It was so bad my wife even noticed it.

[Cardin Drake 1,825]

Just one of the small reasons I hate Lane Kiffen. The guy coaches them to do it.  He is so classless.  I will root against any team that employs him. I admit he does know how to run an offense though, at least when he has Matt Corral.

Edited October 18, 2021 by Cardin Drake

[WFE12 9,191]

Prime time 6:00

[kwagoner 214]

It has gone from trying to slow down the HUNH, to simply using it as a way to sub. Rules have been shifting against the defense, so they have to find ways to get an advantage or even it out.

I hate the fake injury method, but you can’t blame them (or whomever) for balancing the scales. And I’m  not sure how to fix it, since player safety is the hinge phrase.

[Viper 3,132]

14 minutes ago, WFE12 said:

Prime time 6:00

Finally a big JH game at night. Been a LONG time since the last one. Joint will be rockin. 

[SRBautigerfan 1,040]

3 hours ago, hutchids said:

I dont know how many of you saw the UT and Bama vs Ole Miss game, but Ole Miss faked tons of injuries to get breaks on defense. My question to you all is how many Ole Miss will fake against us and what impact do you see it having? I'm expecting to see around 5 since Auburn doesn't go hurry up.

I'm not excusing UT fans behavior during that game but considering all the OM/Kiffen flops it had to of had that crowd beyond pissed off.  

[McLoofus 35,182]

3 hours ago, Viper said:

Finally a big JH game at night. Been a LONG time since the last one. Joint will be rockin. 

[steeleagle 2,945]

I saw a lot of those fake injuries,  and it was ridiculous to have to watch that and extend the game that long.

Is there nothing a ref can do to force them to them off the field, especially when 99% were being addressed as cramps?

 

[Hank2020 3,199]

4 hours ago, Cardin Drake said:

Just one of the small reason I hate Lane Kiffen. The guy coaches them to do it.  He is so classless.  I will root against any team that employs him. I admit he does know how to run an offense though, at least when he has Matt Corral.

How do you know he coaches them to do it? Just wondering. I am a lately Kiffin fan ( not earlier). I like his sense of humor (many CFB coaches don’t show them) and bc I think his offensive coaching is top notch if not the best.

[Barnacle 9,064]

This was my favorite one all night. 

 

[AuburnEagle79 2,165]

6 minutes ago, Barnacle said:

This was my favorite one all night. 

 

That crap should be a penalty. Especially if the coach is actively coaching the player to go down. 

[Barnacle 9,064]

Just now, AuburnEagle79 said:

That crap should be a penalty. Especially if the coach is actively coaching the player to go down. 

Yeah it’s pretty bush league. That was the most blatant one, but Ole Miss players were going down left and right.

The tough part about instituting some sort of rule - for instance, an injured player cannot rejoin the game until the next quarter - is it will simply encourage injured players to stay on the field when they shouldn’t, and I don’t see the league putting a rule in place that will put players at risk. 

Likewise, there are times when a player needs to go down, and even be encouraged to go down due to risk of further injury, so penalizing what happened above becomes entirely subjective.

[Guest MustardSeed]

20 minutes ago, AuburnEagle79 said:

That crap should be a penalty. Especially if the coach is actively coaching the player to go down. 

Agreed. 15 yards first offense for entire team. 2nd offense for anyone after that, ejection. When a coach is visibly telling a player to go down before getting to the sideline that should be dealt with. 

[shabby 1,957]

3 hours ago, SRBautigerfan said:

I'm not excusing UT fans behavior during that game but considering all the OM/Kiffen flops it had to of had that crowd beyond pissed off.  

It was pathetic and both teams were doing it. Tennessee coaches on camera pointing to the ground. Flop fest in Neyland 

[AuburnEagle79 2,165]

1 hour ago, Barnacle said:

Yeah it’s pretty bush league. That was the most blatant one, but Ole Miss players were going down left and right.

The tough part about instituting some sort of rule - for instance, an injured player cannot rejoin the game until the next quarter - is it will simply encourage injured players to stay on the field when they shouldn’t, and I don’t see the league putting a rule in place that will put players at risk. 

Likewise, there are times when a player needs to go down, and even be encouraged to go down due to risk of further injury, so penalizing what happened above becomes entirely subjective.

Very true. Similar to most things in life, those that abuse the system bring it down for everyone else. 

[slyinsocal 831]

Although the points scored fell way short of the total, the game was still a track meet. Some were legit, as in both QBs for sure. BUT, when replays show other players look to the sideline before dropping to the ground…OM yes a lot, but UTK had a few themselves.

[tigers23 648]

This is still one of the best

[Hank2020 3,199]

38 minutes ago, tigers23 said:

This is still one of the best

Guess we need to throw a flagrant flag on ourselves!!

[JGLEATON 1,244]

Gonna have a Ole Miss yellow mustard Titleist Game...  get Aubie this outfit n pass the mustard, just NOT on the field... 

Edited October 18, 2021 by JGLEATON

[DAG 33,980]

1 hour ago, tigers23 said:

This is still one of the best

Malzhan. 

[AubieinNC2009 79]

3 hours ago, tigers23 said:

This is still one of the best

Did they ever find the sniper that snuck in?

[Cardin Drake 1,825]

5 hours ago, Hank2020 said:

How do you know he coaches them to do it? Just wondering. I am a lately Kiffin fan ( not earlier). I like his sense of humor (many CFB coaches don’t show them) and bc I think his offensive coaching is top notch if not the best.

Well, it's possible he has matured and grown as a person in the last decade. But my money would be on he's just learned to fake sincerity a little better and now knows what to say and not say in public.  Underneath the facade, I'm sure he is the same old weasel.  You get some pretty funny stuff if you google why do people hate Lane Kiffen. For instance, this, after he was hired at Bama:

 

 

Because he’s the perfect bad guy in college football, it’s almost impossible to find Lane Kiffin fans. 

In fact, is there any doubt that Kiffin has the lowest approval rating of any player or coach in college football?

There isn’t, right?

That means Lane Kiffin is the most hated man in college football. 

Most people who find themselves disliked by the entire country undertake some sort of public relations campaign to make over their image. You’ll see them for several weeks or months in a row at charity events, photographed alongside sick children in hospitals, buying a disabled person a new wheelchair, they’ll come out against cancer in particular and death in general.

They do all these things to burnish their tarnished images. They do all these things because people are dumb and if you claim to not like the things they don’t like either — Wait, I hate cancer and death too, Lane Kiffin can’t be all bad! — you either end up better liked or, if you do it well enough, elected President of the United States.   

But Lane Kiffin does nothing to combat the hate or try to make people like him better. 

Lane Kiffin doesn’t care about your opinion of him at all. Which, in a manufactured and artificial era, actually makes him one of the most genuine coaches out there. 

And that makes me kind of like him. 

Notwithstanding the fact that I’ve grown to like Lane, we all know that Kiffin being fired at Alabama is inevitable.

But how?

Here are the 11 most likely reasons Lane Kiffin will be fired from Alabama.  

1. Attempting to stage a coup against Nick Saban.

Lane Kiffin, the least successful former head coach in America to have been in charge of two top twenty programs, attempting to overthrow Nick Saban, the most successful head coach in America, is high comedy. 

Which means it will probably happen.

Meet the coaching version of the Bay of Pigs.  

2. Coeds

Kiffin was far from a monk during his time in Knoxville. There were quite a few wild nights, including one early morning when the coach’s Lexus, purportedly full of drunk coeds, ended up abandoned in a ditch after crashing off the road. 

He could get away with all sorts of shenanigans in Los Angeles because of the insanity that goes on the entertainment industry out there.

But Tuscaloosa is a long way from LA, both physically and culturally.  

Plus, we know two things about Alabama coeds: a. they are hot and b. they have low morals

This is a great combination. 

Unless you’re a married man. 

3. For leaking news that he’s Alabama’s new coach in waiting. 

If the rumors are true about Kiffin as coach-in-waiting, you know there’s zero chance that Lane Kiffin could keep this quiet. 

Can you imagine the Bama fan reaction if Lane Kiffin was Nick Saban’s chosen successor?

They’d fire him out of anger at the mere possibility. 

4. Recruiting violations.

Lane Kiffin already plays loose with recruiting rules and now he’s at Alabama, a school which makes paying recruits an art form. 

What could possibly go wrong?

5. Because Layla Kiffin goes on Facebook or Twitter and crushes living in Tuscaloosa. 

Layla hated Knoxville, which is like Paris compared to Tuscaloosa. When she inevitably insults Tuscaloosa, Lane will step up to defend his wife.Having to address the media for the first time to clear up the controversy, Kiffin will say, “My wife was just joking when she said that Tuscaloosa was native American for ‘white trash live here.’ What she meant to say was this, “There are many trashy people of all races living in Tuscalooa.”

6. Making play calls without proper authority.

This is 100% going to happen.

Alabama will lose a close game on a late play call and it will emerge that Kiffin made the play call without proper authority.

Just wait. 

7. Talking to Auburn about its head job when Gus Malzahn leaves for the NFL. 

One of the great things about Lane Kiffin is his complete and total lack of loyalty. When Urban Meyer resigned for the first time at Florida, guess who tried to get the Florida job even though he was Tennessee’s head coach and had spent the preceding year crushing the Florida Gators and Urban Meyer?

Lane Kiffin.

Is there any doubt that if Gus Malzahn left and Lane Kiffin had a couple of decent years as Alabama’s offensive coordinator, that he’d do everything in his power to get the Auburn job?

8. A Tennessee fan will attempt to shoot him in Neyland Stadium on the Third Saturday in October. 

Instead of hitting Kiffin, the Tennessee fan, who will be very drunk and using a musket from the 1870’s, will instead hit Saban. 

Saban will survive — it’s impossible to kill a vampire unless you hit him in the heart with a silver bullet — but Kiffin will be interim coach for the Alabama-UT game. 

The Crimson Tide, despite being 48 point favorites, will lose by 48. 

Kiffin will be fired the next morning. 

9. In order to keep his wife happy, Kiffin will purchase the Whole Foods franchise rights for Tuscaloosa, Alabama. 

This will require the rest of his life savings. 

He will open the store to great fanfare then go immediately bankrupt when Bama fans arrive to discover that Whole Foods doesn’t carry Mountain Dew or bronze Bear Bryant statues.

In the subsequent riot, the store will burn down. 

Kiffin, not having done his due diligence, will have zero insurance. 

10. Mike Slive will suspend and fire him. 

The day Lane Kiffin left for USC Mike Slive smoked a victory cigar. 

This is remarkable because even Slive, who likes everyone, despises Kiffin. 

Now Kiffin’s back in the SEC.

My kids are watching Star Wars right now and for some reason I can’t get the idea of Mike Slive kicking Lane Kiffin’s ass, Yoda episode 2 of Star Wars style.

Slive will be watching Kiffin closely, count on it. 

11. For being Lane Kiffin. 

The thing about Lane Kiffin, as we noted above, is he’s Lane Kiffin. 

He’s insolent, insubordinate, unlikable, and cocky. 

That’s a pretty extraordinary collection of character traits. 

Somehow insulting Bear Bryant. 

12. Kiffin will leave to take the Dallas Cowboys head coaching job on the same day that Nick Saban has decided to fire him for doing an awful job as offensive coordinator. 

If there’s one thing that consistent about Kiffin, it’s that he always manages to fail upwards.

Jerry Jones will definitely be hiring him. 

Just wait.

[AUGunsmith 666]

Lane kiffen is the tits. Dude is f*cking awesome. 

As far as the bull**** claim here about having players go down as dirty and classless, let's just ignore all the times Auburn has done the same s***. 

To bad we didn't get the Lane train as HC

[aucanucktiger 1,791]

Yes, the "professional injury" - a requirement when holding a slim lead for both Kiffenball and central america soccer. I'll go w/ 4 "injuries" if they're clinging to slim lead late. 

Btw, what's over/under for network having a dedicated camera on crowd at AU/Ole Miss game to "catch" what national sports media will gleefully i.d. as "AUBURN fans throwing objects at Kiffen"? Al.com, Saturday Down South, Pat Forde, Thalmel et al will run with it for years to come.