Lane Kiffin fires back at Mike Elko after A&M coach trolled him about night games
Lane Kiffin clapped back at Texas A&M coach Mike Elko following a playful jab aimed at him Wednesday night.
At the end of last month, Kiffin expressed frustration with Ole Miss‘ lack of night games at home this season. During his weekly radio show Wednesday night, Elko directly referenced Kiffin’s comments and took a clear jab at Kiffin in the process. Kiffin tweeted out his comeback Thursday morning as the Rebels coach maintained his point and doubled down with stats.
“Trade you anytime Coach. Not fair to our fans,” Kiffin wrote Thursday morning on X/Twitter. “Btw check out QB play and scoring at night home and on the road.”
Again, this comes after Elko mentioned Kiffin’s complaints on the latest edition of ‘The Aggie Football Hour’ yesterday.
“Another night game at Kyle Field,” Elko said. “We appreciate those. Apparently, that’s all we play anymore…We get them all and Lane wants more so that’s okay. Him and I, we’ll swap next year or something.”
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Kiffin had noted the amount of night games at home that some teams were and were not getting around the Southeastern Conference during a press conference on October 28th. Kiffin was bemoaning Ole Miss’ lack of night home games compared to LSU, which played its fourth home game of the season last Saturday in a 42-13 loss to Alabama. The Tigers have actually had seven of its nine games this season begin at 7 pm ET or later. Kiffin’s point was reinforced when the SEC announced the Rebels would be playing Georgia in the 3:30 pm ET afternoon window while LSU hosted the Crimson Tide later that night. It meant at the time that Oxford wouldn’t have one night game in conference play this season while Baton Rouge hosted two, including an overtime win over Ole Miss.
Still, the results at least went Kiffin’s way with the Rebels pulling the upset of the Bulldogs at Vaught-Hemingway last weekend and the Tigers losing by almost 30 at home.
Elko involved himself, though, with the Aggies’ own home field in College Station. They too have had several night games, including a primetime one in the non-conference against Notre Dame and then against LSU, at Aggieland. Their game against Texas may also get the night slot considering the circumstances and implications of that rivalry in its return.
The SEC schedules games as they do in conference play in their respective television slots. There is just some grumbling about how they do it from their coaches, specifically one of them with a few of the others now sharing their own thoughts on it.