Ole coach Miss Lane Kiffin calls targeting rule “very frustrating”

Due to Ole Miss’s Week 1 game against Louisville littered with targeting penalties, the targeting rule in college football has been a hot topic. This match also prompted the cast of SEC Nation to ask Ole Miss’s head coach Kiffin Way for his thoughts on the targeting rule.

“I mean, that’s what it is. It’s very frustrating, ”Kiffin said. “I just don’t like – my problem is, you know, when people come out and say, ‘Okay, well, look, here’s where his head was. “Well, you’re idling, you rewind it five times. Some kind of official sued me on social media about,“ Well, hey, learn how to coach your players. ”Well, we all do some doing. mistakes. They make mistakes and they have an instant replay to correct their mistakes, but yet a player is supposed to do it, in a split second, when that target drops as well. That’s the problem. You’re going to strike here. and their heads drop.

Due to the game being played on a Monday night, all eyes in the country were on the rebels and Cardinals in week 1 of the 2021 season. But four targeting kicks in the first half of the game ended up being this. whose country was buzzing during discussions about the game.

Louisville head coach Scott Satterfield was asked about all targeting calls in the game. Satterfield noted that he wanted the game to be as safe as possible, but made it clear how frustrated he was with how the rule changed the sport for him -same.

“It’s unfortunate with all the targeting. I do not like it. It’s not a good look, ”Satterfield said. “We want to keep the game safe. But when you go helmet to helmet or lower your head, the top of your helmet to hit somebody, we don’t teach that, we don’t want to do that. One of our targets was on a block. TP was going to block a guy, and they hit helmet against helmet. I sometimes get it going to happen; we don’t like it. We train against it, and we have to improve with it because these penalties are crucial and they obviously hurt you. “

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During that match, Kiffin was forced to stay home after testing positive for COVID-19. But the Rebels still managed to win that game, as well as last week’s game against Austin Peay. Ole Miss takes the field tonight against Tulane in a game that starts at 7pm CT. The game can be seen on television on ESPN2.