“Thank you to (Ole Miss) chancellor (Glenn) Boyce — with his promotion had a lot of faculty staff here. Just want to invite all those people back. If we had anybody come to the game tonight ...

"It's what I was hired to do," Beard said. "It's a conversation the Chancellor (Glenn Boyce) and Keith (Keith Carter, Ole Miss' Athletic Director) had. And I take that very, very serious.

The SEC fined Ole Miss $500,000 after fans stormed the court following the Rebels’ 78-76 win over No. 4 Tennessee in a men’s basketball game on Wednesday, the conference announced Friday.