Newly hired Louisiana State University coach Lane Kiffin claims that some Ole Miss fans were so mad at him for leaving Mississippi for LSU that they tried to run him off the road.

Kiffin described the incident during his first press conference in Louisiana, but said that he fully understands the “passion.”

“It was very hard, and it was really challenging,” Kiffin said at Tiger Stadium, according to the New York Post . “It’s the passion of the SEC. I understand that. I don’t get emotional with it.”

He added, “Knox and I driving and people trying to run us off the road, man, and the things they said to us.”

He then noted that the passion for LSU fans is just as deep.

“And then we got here [to Baton Rouge], and we had been here for six minutes [and fans are saying], ‘We love you, Coa

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