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A college football coach got the biggest surprise from his littlest fan when his daughter walked into the huddle during practice wearing a t-shirt breaking his wife’s pregnancy news and sending the team wild. Coach Randall Joyner is in his fifth season as defensive line coach at Ole Miss, in Oxford, Mississippi, with his unit leading the nation in 2024 in both sacks (52) and tackles for loss (120), setting program records. Due to coach Joyner's commitments with Ole Miss, when wife Trimiesha found out she was pregnant with their second child, she wanted to draw up a creative play to break the news. Trimiesha also wanted her husband's football family to be involved in the surprise, too, as just a month earlier, 18-year-old freshman, Corey Adams, was killed in a Tennessee shooting. And so she purchased a specially designed t-shirt for daughter, Aniyah, aged two, which read "Big Sister" on the front. At the Ole Miss practice field, on August 14, Aniyah walked into the middle of a huddle Randall was having with his players, tapping his leg to get his attention while he was locked in with the team. When he looked down and read the words, he quickly turned his gaze to Trimiesha, and asked with a stunned expression on his face, "Are you serious?" The excited players then ran to get a look at the t-shirt before bursting into cheers and applause for their coach and his family.
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00:00No defensive strategy could prepare Coach Joyner for the surprise his two-year-old daughter is about to deliver.
00:08Randall is in his fifth season as defensive line coach at Ole Miss.
00:12So when wife Tremesha discovered some major news, a simple reveal wouldn't do.
00:18For a man so dedicated to his team, she had to draw up a play for his whole football family to be part of.
00:25In the middle of practice, his daughter Anaya, the MVP of this play, broke through the defensive line into the huddle.
00:34So that's my challenge for this group, fellas. It's supposed to be hard.
00:38The standard is the standard. I'm not lowering it. If anything, you better exceed it.
00:43She knew she had to get his attention.
00:49And when he took a closer look...
00:51The team went wild, breaking out of the huddle into cheers and applause for Coach.
01:07Hey! Hey! That's crazy! Let's go!
01:16Anaya was the star of the practice field.
01:18Do you want a little sister or a little brother?
01:22A little brother.
01:22A little brother!
01:25As other coaches and players, including head coach Lane Kiffin,
01:29I told you, joined in on the celebrations.
01:32What does your shirt say?
01:34All right.
01:35This big, joyous family will be welcoming its new team member due in April 2026.
01:41Okay.
01:44Let's get started.
01:44We'll probably go see what happens.
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