HOUSTON — Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin said a Texas Tech participant spit on thought-about one of his gamers and presumably used a racial slur Wednesday evening time inside the TaxAct Texas Bowl.
A scrum between the teams obtained here after Ole Miss’ Dayton Wade fumbled early inside the fourth quarter and Texas Tech recovered. There was pushing and shoving between gamers, and Ole Miss huge receiver Jordan Watkins was given a private foul penalty.
After the sport, which Ole Miss misplaced forty two-25, Kiffin said the penalty ought to have been on Texas Tech’s Dimitri Moore, who’s not any. eleven for the purple Raiders, as a substitute of Watkins, who wears No. eleven for Ole Miss.
“They announce our eleven, which is Jordan Watkins, who wasn’t inside the fight. It was their eleven that was combating seventy one [Ole Miss lineman Jayden Williams], and everyone knew as a outcome of their very personal coaches have been yelling on the man,” Kiffin said.
“There was a racial slur involved; that is not the aim of what we’re talking about, [it’s] regarding the spitting half. I launched our personal seventy one as a lot as a outcome of the officers, proper or fallacious, you see him crying? he is not crying, not as a outcome of he obtained spit on, it is as a outcome of one factor was said.”
requested to clarify whether or not a Texas Tech participant used a racial slur in the direction of thought-about one of his gamers, Kiffin said he wasn’t constructive.
“i am not going to, as a outcome of i did not hear it, [I’m not going to] say that that occurred for constructive that he gave a racial slur to our participant,” Kiffin said. “i used to be advised that that was said in that [incident], however i did not hear that. so as that will clearly be a large problem.”
Moore and Williams are each Black.
Kiffin said he obtained so upset by way of the sport as a outcome of he did not contemplate it was truthful that his participant obtained a penalty that he thinks clearly ought to have been on one other particular person.
“i will defend our gamers when a toddler spits on them and is accused to a nationwide viewers that it is him,” Kiffin said. “So Jordan has to deal with this.”
Texas Tech coach Joey McGuire was not requested regarding the incident, however Kiffin said he spoke with him regarding the spitting after the sport.
“everytime you actually watch over there, thought-about one of them’s variety of laughing as a outcome of he obtained off,” Kiffin said. “he is screaming on the participant, they’re dropping their thoughts on him. … I talked to their head coach afterwards. He was like: ‘loopy officiating on the market.’ i am going: ‘Yeah, that was actually dangerous on that one which your man spit and our man obtained the penalty.’ He was like: ‘Yeah, i do know.'”
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