By JOHN E. BIALAS
Broadmoor Bureau Chief
Football fans are going to Twitter to bash Ole Miss interim coach Matt Luke with one game to go in the Rebels season, the Thanksgiving Night finale against Mississippi State in the Egg Bowl in Starkville.
These fans are making fun of Luke and hoping the game will be his last in a role he took on after coach Hugh Freeze was fired this summer for a “pattern of personal misconduct.”
I’m a Luke fan who has followed his career since he was a young high school pup in Gulfport, Mississippi, my hometown, but the anti-Luke tweets coming in after the Ole Miss loss to Texas A&M on Saturday night in Oxford are entertaining because of their creative wordplay.
Hard to believe that there are "Ole Miss fans" who want Matt Luke to be the permanent head coach 😂 The guy hasn't been able to coach O-Line for years let alone a full team
— Peyton Finch#⃣1⃣1⃣ (@ItsMeWesP_11) November 19, 2017
Perhaps all those Oxford businesses flying "Hire Matt Luke" banners would like to offer him an assistant manager gig
— Two Yards and a Cloud of Enricky (@TwoYdsandaCloud) November 19, 2017
Why should we hire Matt Luke to coach our team when we can just pay $3.49 for a bottle of Hidden Valley Ranch to do it?
— Two Yards and a Cloud of Enricky (@TwoYdsandaCloud) November 19, 2017
Matt Luke's golf bag contains 14 putters.
— Will Bardwell (@willbardwell) November 19, 2017
Matt Luke always buys the insurance at Best Buy
— [Escort 69] (@BunkiePerkins) November 19, 2017
Matt Luke looks at his offense like he's waiting on the buffet attendants to bring a new batch of fried catfish fillets
— Trey Hodson (@phatrey) November 19, 2017
Matt Luke doesn’t hold hands til the 4th date.
— [Escort 69] (@BunkiePerkins) November 19, 2017
Matt Luke wipes down his shopping cart before returning it
— Gary (@cuppycup) November 19, 2017
Matt Luke orders Shirley Temples for the house at Pat O’Briens
— NRWichman (@ReganWichman) November 19, 2017
Shirley Temples, 14 putters, shopping cart, buffet, 4th date, Best Buy, T-shirts?
Though I don’t get all the references in those jokes, they sound good.