{"id":5566,"date":"2021-11-07T06:56:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T11:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5566"},"modified":"2021-11-07T06:56:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T11:56:19","slug":"ole-miss-lane-kiffin-apologize-to-hugh-freeze-for-classless-tweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5566","title":{"rendered":"Ole Miss Lane Kiffin apologize to Hugh Freeze for &#8216;classless&#8217; tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ole Miss athletics director Keith Carter and head coach Lane Kiffin apologized to Hugh Freeze and Liberty about tweets sent Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These tweets were unfortunate and not who we are in Ole Miss athletics,&#8221; Carter said to ESPN. &#8220;When I found out about them, they were immediately taken down. I have spoken with (Liberty athletic director) Ian McCaw to relay my sincere apology. We will work to do better in the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kiffin said to ESPN that he didn&#8217;t know about the tweets until after his postgame press conference. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ole Miss officials apologize after official football Twitter account mocks former coach Hugh Free&#8230; &#8211; via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ESPN<\/a> App <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/POq6vvC8P3\">https:\/\/t.co\/POq6vvC8P3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lane Kiffin (@Lane_Kiffin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lane_Kiffin\/status\/1457130013392834566?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ole Miss and Lane Kiffin apologized for the tweets from the official football account, which he says he has \u201cno affiliation with&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ry0xLlpaiM\">https:\/\/t.co\/Ry0xLlpaiM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; SI College Football (@si_ncaafb) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/si_ncaafb\/status\/1457127230656716818?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4it8JRZeGbY\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarionledger.com\/story\/sports\/college\/ole-miss\/2021\/11\/06\/ole-miss-lane-kiffin-keith-carter-apologize-hugh-freeze-tweets\/6323661001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ole Miss athletics director Keith Carter and head coach Lane Kiffin apologized to Hugh Freeze and Liberty about tweets sent Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Th&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5566\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ole Miss Lane Kiffin apologize to Hugh Freeze for &#8216;classless&#8217; tweets<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[230],"class_list":["post-5566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-ole-miss-lane-kiffin-apologize-to-hugh-freeze-for-classless-tweets","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-1rM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5567,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5566\/revisions\/5567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}