The primary ever 12-team school soccer playoff is correct across the nook.
Which means it is time for packages who discover themselves on the bubble, to start out politicking and pleading their case.
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None do it higher, and louder, than Mississippi’s head coach, Lane Kiffin.
Kiffin took to social media to fireside away his staff’s résumé, in comparison with these of the groups that he and his Ole Miss Rebels discover themselves battling in opposition to.
These groups would come with fellow SEC members, Alabama and South Carolina (together with a presumed ACC staff, pending the outcomes of championship weekend).
A part of the job this time of the 12 months is to politick and vouch on your staff, to elucidate why your staff deserves to get in, versus someone else.
What Kiffin did is okay, and never that large of a deal.
He needs to see his staff, who he rightfully believes deserves to make the playoff and have an opportunity to finish for a nationwide championship.
He would not perceive why they’re even able of being in comparison with South Carolina, who they beat on the highway within the common season by 24.
It is a level Kiffin would not need anybody to neglect.
“I’ve nice respect for South Carolina,” Kiffin mentioned.
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“South Carolina leaping us? Why will we even play the video games? We have now the identical report in the identical convention. We went to their place and ran them out of their place.
“It was a 24-point SEC highway win and we’re simply handing the ball off within the fourth quarter to get out of there.”
Kiffin has some extent, face to face wins should matter. Or else, as Kiffin mentioned, why play the video games?
Alabama additionally defeated South Carolina earlier within the 12 months.
Nevertheless, South Carolina head coach, Shane Beamer, took offense to the best way Kiffin went about it.
Showing on Outkick’s Dan Dakitch, Beamer expressed his displeasure with Kiffin’s strategy.
“He can say what he needs to say. I feel the SEC is the perfect convention in America,” Beamer mentioned.
“I feel we deserve greater than three groups. In my thoughts, let’s proceed to advertise the nice issues concerning the South Carolina soccer program.
“Yeah, I get it, they beat us. I perceive precisely the place he is coming from, attempting to leap on the desk for his staff.
“However I feel I can arise for South Carolina and why I feel we need to be within the playoff with out attempting to take down different SEC groups as effectively.”
Whether or not you agree with Kiffin’s brash type, or Beamer’s stylish response, this a lot is for certain, there one in every of them goes to be extraordinarily upset and dissatisfied when the ultimate rankings come out subsequent Tuesday.
The ironic half is, there’s greater than a great probability that Kiffin and Beamer each discover themselves sitting on the sofa when the playoff begins, if the committee decides to offer Alabama the final spot.