{"id":431307,"date":"2024-10-12T17:04:30","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T21:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/?post_type=article&#038;p=431307"},"modified":"2024-10-12T17:08:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-12T21:08:39","slug":"mississippi-state-player-becomes-latest-to-spark-fake-injury-ire-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/mississippi-state-football\/mississippi-state-player-becomes-latest-to-spark-fake-injury-ire-on-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi State player becomes latest to spark fake injury ire on social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Mississippi State player found himself the center of discussion around college football players faking injury on Saturday during its game at Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>Mississippi State entered the game at 1-4 \u2014 its lone win coming against an FCS program \u2014 and were big underdogs (no pun intended) heading into Sanford Stadium against the No. 5 team in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Lebby&#8217;s team already needed all the help they could get as they looked to pull off what would be a big upset and a signature win for the first-time head coach. But take a look at, well, what appears to be a rather obvious attempt at faking an injury by one of the MSU players, with video courtesy of WSB-TV sports director Zach Klein:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2026 hope\u2026 this Mississippi State player is ok.. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OD2u24o7Cz\">pic.twitter.com\/OD2u24o7Cz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Zach Klein (@ZachKleinWSB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZachKleinWSB\/status\/1845201894765126081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 12, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ironically, Lebby&#8217;s former boss at Ole Miss, Lane Kiffin, has faced accusations of his players faking injuries throughout the season. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MattDowellTV\/status\/1842729881584488713\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">South Carolina head coach Shane Beamer all but outright alleged as much<\/a> the day after his Gamecocks fell to the Rebels in Week 6.<\/p>\n<p>That led the Ole Miss program to release a statement Friday ahead of their game against LSU, stating that Kiffin would discuss the matter with his players and staff to &#8220;ensure we conduct ourselves properly and are compliant in this manner&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>While allegations of faking injuries is far from new in college football, the scruitiny doesn&#8217;t seem as if it will die down any time soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Mississippi State player appeared to feign an injury during a Week 7 game at Georgia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":348993,"featured_media":406967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","tags":[],"class_list":["post-431307","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_types-news","teams-mississippi-state-football"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/431307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/348993"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}