Tennessee cheerleaders also had to be cleared from the sideline, and SEC commissioner Greg Sankey issued a statement condemning the "actions of fans," with Tennessee chancellor Donde Plowman and athletic director Danny White both issuing apologies to Ole Miss on behalf of Tennessee. The game was delayed for 20 minutes as security personnel evacuated the Ole Miss sideline and sent coaches and players to the middle of the field. Then on Saturday, with Kiffin back on Rocky Top for the first time as a head coach, fans peppered the Ole Miss sideline with debris of every kind after a controversial spot on a fourth-down play by the Vols that came up just short of the first-down marker. Even an impromptu news conference that Kiffin called to explain to fans why he was leaving erupted into chaos, with media members screaming at each other and fighting over what portion of Kiffin's comments would be on camera as he waited in an adjacent hallway. In January 2010, when Kiffin bolted Tennessee after just one season for the USC head-coaching job, drunken students were running amok on campus and burning mattresses as the news broke. And we all thought it was crazy when I left here 12 years ago." "Just when you thought everyone had moved on and made up," Kiffin said jokingly. Maybe not, but what's not debatable - in the aftermath of one of the wildest and ugliest scenes in recent college football history Saturday in Ole Miss' 31-26 victory over Tennessee - is that when Kiffin exits Knoxville as a head coach, all hell is sure to break loose. and they all start fighting over it," Kiffin told ESPN. "The Tennessee fans there at the tunnel were all going, 'F- you. He kept the golf ball as a souvenir but felt as if he owed the Vols' fans their own keepsake.
He'd just tossed his old visor to the jeering Tennessee fans as he exited a field littered with water bottles, vape pipes, screws, a half-eaten apple, even an empty mustard bottle. Lane Kiffin stood outside the visitors locker room at Neyland Stadium in the wee hours of Sunday morning proudly twirling a beaten-up yellow range ball and searching for a new visor.
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