Read
this article about Lane Kiffin becoming the new Head Coach of USC football even though he was at Tennessee for only one year, but I want to highlight these three paragraphs:
"Knoxville fire officials and university police were on campus after Kiffin's announcement as students burned mattresses and gathered around the athletic department building in hopes of blocking Kiffin from leaving campus. It was not clear if Kiffin was still on campus at the time.
"'I think the students have had kind of a violent reaction to that, and a lot of them are disheartened, upset and feel betrayed that less than a year in that he would be leaving and taking off,'" Knoxville Fire Department spokesman D.J. Corcoran said.
"'The Rock,' a giant boulder on campus where students often paint 'Happy Birthday' messages, had obscenities directed toward Kiffin. Students tried to enter the room where Kiffin read his statement, holding a sign that read 'Go home traitor. It's time,' mimicking a campaign the university used to promote Kiffin when he was hired. But the students were turned back before Kiffin talked."
Gathering around the AD building to blockade Kiffin is kind of fucked up and useless. But since 'SC did pull kind of a dick move, this is totally justified. And so long as no one got hurt, hearing that there has been a riot on the University of Tennessee campus is
awesome.
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