Lane Kiffin couldn’t help himself.

Who can blame him? Mike Leach’s comments about his wide receivers following Mississippi State’s loss to Alabama and comparing them to extinct animals just screams for attention.

On Tuesday, the Ole Miss coach chimed in.

“Thank you for the concern about our future generations of kids in our great state,” Kiffin tweets.

After Mississippi State’s 30-6 loss to Alabama, Leach let loose on one of his more bizarre diatribes when it came to his receivers.

“Well, I think we need to use our hands better,” Leach said Saturday. “We don’t move our hands very good. You know, when I was a kid and I was in grade school, there was this nice big dinosaur guy. I can’t remember the gas station, but they would give you a free dinosaur if you filled up there. That’s back when they had commercials on TV and then they would give something to the kids like me. And then the idea was that you should raise hell with your parents every time you’re in the station wagon. We had one, a good classic like one off the Wonder Years, one of those fake woody ones, you know, fake painted-on wood. But then the best is it would always without exception the finish and the varnish on it would peel. So then it looked more bogus than ever.”

Mark Heim is a sports reporter for The Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Mark_Heim.