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Where did Kyle Field get the name "Hate Barn"?

In 2011, several months before this site went live, Spencer Hall wrote this send-off to one of college football's finest rivalries. In it, he unwittingly coined a phrase that we'd soon adopt wholeheartedly.

In case you were confused, there it is on the side of the stadium: KYLE FIELD. These pants are not fancy: the lettering is a plain and stark as a lot of the buildings on campus, and as basic as the rolling, ranchy landscape. An SEC fan who came to a game at Kyle Field said, "Yeah, there's really not much there.