Look: Lane Kiffin loves the hate from Tennessee football fans

Lane Kiffin was seen basking in the onslaught of hate from Tennessee football fans at Neyland.

Nobody is hated more in Knoxville than Lane Kiffin, but he’s cool with Tennessee football fans despising him with a fiery passion.

Kiffin walked out on the Vols program like a bad dad does on his kids for a pack of Camels over a decade ago. After getting fired on the tarmac at USC, Kiffin hit rock bottom and needed to enroll in the Nick Saban School of Coaching Rehabilitation. He took some ass chewings before he learned to fly with the Owls at FAU. Two years into his gig at Ole Miss, the Lane Train is back at the station.

Here he is doing the Kiffin Wave to all of Rocky Top at Neyland during the pre-game.

And here is Kiffin as cool as a cucumber talking to Cole Cubelic about how sweet it is to have Matt Corral as his quarterback before making sure to note that there’s no love lost for him from Vols fans.

Lane Kiffin is thriving in the cacophony of Tennessee football fans hate

In what should be known as the Manning Bowl has quickly become the Kiffin Kerfuffle. Why let quarterbacking greatness get in the way of head-coaching pettiness when it comes to a cross-divisional SEC game? In a game where points will not be at a premium, don’t be shocked if Kiffin hangs a half a hundred on the Vols just because he feels like. He could also lose to Rocky Top.

There has been and there will only be one Lane Kiffin, for better or worse for the rest of time.

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