Lane Kiffen Public Reprimand
Someone needs to tell the SEC not to kill the messenger.
Lane Kiffin complaining about crappy refs isn't the problem; having crappy refs is the problem.
1. It helps if you actually understand the rules before you publicly bash the refs for screwing it up (when they really didn't.)
2. Questioning the legitimacy/authority of the SEC from both the head coach and his staff (especially considering they didn't understand the rules to begin with) is definitely over the line.
From the article that I posted above...
"Earlier this week, Tennessee’s Lane Kiffin complained that the referees in his team’s game with Alabama should have thrown a flag on the game’s final play and allowed the Volunteers a second try at a potential game-winning field goal.
By rule, even if officials had thrown a flag, the Vols wouldn’t have been given a second kick. That, of course, meant little to Kiffin.
“I’m sure we’ll get one of those letters that mean nothing, that Bobby (Petrino) got last week, but Florida and Alabama live on,” Kiffin said.
Clearly, he was a suggesting that the SEC is taking care of #1 Florida and #2 Alabama.
UT assistant Ed Orgeron then added to that thought the next day.
“There were very questionable calls throughout the season and it seems they go for the better team. Whether that’s true or not, we can never prove that but that’s what it seems like.”"