Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin has jokes about Kirby Smart blatantly lying to the refs. Last week, Smart was caught on video appearing to call for a timeout, but then telling the refs that he was “just clapping.”
Kirby Smart lied to the refs and swore he didn’t call timeout…pic.twitter.com/eVALoPBPeU
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Smart would later double down on the claim that he was signaling to the refs that Auburn was clapping defense.
“Yeah, they were clapping. That’s what I told him [the head referee before the game,” said Smart.”I said, ‘If these guys clap, that’s a penalty.’ They can’t clap because we will false snap, and that’s a penalty. I’ve lost games on that before in this stadium… So I ran over to him and said, ‘They’re clapping,’ and he thought I called a timeout.”
During Saturday’s Ole Miss-Georgia game, Kiffin mocked Smart by turning to the ref to claim he was “just clapping” and not calling a timeout.
“I was just clapping” pic.twitter.com/NgRt5KazPA
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