Lane Kiffin moves from Tennessee to USC; riots ensue

Police called as UT students shout obscenities at Kiffin

Update 12:01 a.m. ET Tennessee students are still staging a quiet riot on campus. Police were called to the Neyland-Thompson Sports Complex on the Campus of the University of Tennessee as Lane Kiffin was meeting with players to inform them that he was leaving for USC. According to the Knoxville News-Sentinel a group of student chanted obscenities at Kiffin. And they weren’t nice ones either.

Fans also spray painted how they felt about Kiffin on “The Rock”. The Knoxville news has some photos of students being slightly more polite. The school of Journalism at the University of Tennessee has a photo stream of tonight’s events.

Vols basketball player Renaldo Woolridge reports on Twitter that thousands of student chased Kiffin’s car down the street as he left campus. He tweeted that tear gas was used on the crowd and that fire trucks arrived at the scene.

Some reports say that fans were headed to Kiffin’s house.

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