WATCH: Juice Kiffin eats Tim Tebow’s mic on live TV
The goodest boy in The ‘Sip loves a good microphone.
Juice Kiffin joined SEC Nation ahead of No. 7 Kentucky and No. 14 Ole Miss, and walked over to give Tim Tebow some love. It was all a facade, however, as Juice’s goal was to actually eat the former Heisman Trophy winner’s microphone.
Juice Kiffin, Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin’s golden lab puppy, has become somewhat of a celebrity since Kiffin adopted the adorable fella over the summer. With over 35,000 followers across Instagram and Twitter, he’s become Ole Miss’ unofficial mascot this season.
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Lane Kiffin reveals how Juice has made him a better coach
Juice Kiffin — Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin’s dog — took over college football Twitter earlier this offseason. But as it turns out, he’s teaching his dad a few lessons about being a better coach, as well.
Kiffin got Juice this offseason and he became a social media star, despite getting sent home from SEC Spring Meetings in Destin. As training camp gets started, Kiffin admitted training a dog is much like getting players to get on board with a program when they transfer in.
“You probably wouldn’t think Juice would make me look at coaching better, but … I don’t know how to train a dog and I don’t really do what they tell me to do,” Kiffin said. “Juice is not really well-behaved right now. Wildrose [Kennels] came and got him, today’s day three for like ‘training camp,’ so he’s on day three of training camp. They come get him in the morning, take him out, they give me a list of notes. This is what he does well, this is what he did today, they actually video the things.
“And actually, this morning, meeting with them about it, I was like there’s so [many] similarities here to buying in and bringing people into culture because we’re bringing him in and all of a sudden, he’s around all these other dogs and how well they’re trained has a lot to do with the training to him and him not being distracted by all the other things. I was like you guys are going through the same thing we’re going through. When you bring people in the organization, transfers in, getting them to buy in, here’s the puppy that he’s taken over there with these other dogs that have been trained the whole time, and Juice ain’t listening to what he’s supposed to be doing. I kind of feel like that’s similar to transfers right now.”