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LOOK: Lane Kiffin, Billy Napier have fun over Knox Kiffin's quarterbacking skills

On3-Social-Profile_GRAYby:On3 Staff Report•03/18/23
Billy Napier and Lane Kiffin
(Photos edited by On3 | Photo credits: James Gilbert [left], Justin Ford [right] / Getty Images)

Lane Kiffin has some history trolling while getting his son involved with the bit and he appears to be at it again. And this time there may be another SEC school involved.

On Saturday afternoon Kiffin tweeted a photo of his son Knox Kiffin walking near what appeared to be a track and some practice fields. His son had on a Florida backpack of the make that players on the team are given.

Kiffin tagged Florida coach Billy Napier in the tweet.

About an hour later, Kiffin tagged the official Florida football account with a video of Knox throwing some passes. He hit one perfect out route on the video, leaving you to wonder if he might have some high-profile SEC football in his future.

Napier took the bit in stride, responding to Kiffin’s tweet in hilarious fashion. He tweeted a gif of fans throwing their drinks in the air and celebrating at a baseball game.

Check it out below.

It’s not the first time Kiffin has used social media and his son to (potentially) do a little trolling.

Earlier in February Kiffin tweeted a video of Knox throwing passes and tagged the Tennessee football account with “Bring the boy home.” Knox, of course, is named after Knoxville, Tenn.

Kiffin spent one year of his coaching life at Tennessee, though his departure after just one year for the USC job left Tennessee fans absolutely irate and on the verge of rioting.

There’s no such animosity with Florida, and the Napier response indicates it’s most likely just two coaches having fun on a spring Saturday.

Unfortunately for fans, there’s no immediate date on the calendar between Kiffin and Napier’s football teams. Florida and Ole Miss last played in 2020 — a 51-35 Florida win during the COVID-impacted, SEC-only slate — and they aren’t due to play each other before the SEC’s current scheduling through 2025 ends.

But that could change, of course, when Oklahoma and Texas join the SEC and the schedules get reconfigured.

It would certainly be a fun matchup, one with real stakes if Knox Kiffin ends up being a legitimate Division I-caliber prospect.