Lane Kiffin just can't stop himself from poking the Black Bears of Ole Miss. What did he do now, you ask? For some strange reason, the LSU football coach trashed the whole Ole Miss thing in an interview with Vanity Fair:
One reason Kiffin was drawn to LSU was that the school and its allies could pump what he calls “adult money” into the football program. For his first season leading the Tigers, the roster will reportedly cost nearly $40 million (Kiffin would not comment), but he’s also wielding softer weapons. He’s turned up in videos with two of LSU’s bombshell female athletes, Olivia Dunne and Florentine Dekkers. Kiffin also seems willing to indirectly invoke Ole Miss's struggle to distance itself from symbols like the Confederate flag, Colonel Rebel, and the nickname "Ole Miss" itself. When he was coaching there, Kiffin says, top recruits would tell him, “‘Hey, coach, we really like you. But my grandparents aren’t letting me move to Oxford, Mississippi.’ That doesn’t come up when you say Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Parents were sitting here this weekend saying the campus’s diversity feels so great: ‘It feels like there’s no segregation. And we want that for our kid because that’s the real world.’” (The next day Kiffin added, “I just hope [my comment] comes across respectful to Ole Miss…. There are some things that I’m saying that are factual, they’re not shots.” The population of Baton Rouge is about 51% Black and 36% white (KF: Actually, EBR Parish is much closer, 45% black, 42% white; Oxford is about 66% white, 26% Black. ). Article with paywall.
Needless to say, such comments do not sit well with the Ole Miss fans. Indeed, The title of the next Locked on Ole Miss podcast is Lane Kiffin is an Awful Human Being. Can't say I blame the Ole Miss fans and something tells me the players and their families will tell a different story.
This is probably not the last such comment out of Kiffin as he will undoubtedly add more fuel to the proverbial fire before a certain weekend in September.
5 comments:
He will NEVER win a national championship at lsu! You reap what you sow!l
Anybody can say anything. Kiffin is a deadbeat coach that’s never won a trophy in his life. He has to use his mouth to get attention. I bet the recruits he talks about does not even exist. Everyone knows he’s a liar.
Wasn’t going to win one at the other school either….
The most telling part of this article is a quote from the Vanity Fair writer himself ... he also adds a Paul Finebaum observation:
"After four hours of talking with Kiffin, I’m stumped: Is he endearingly sincere or so full of shit that it’s an art form?"
“I first met him in 2009, and I can’t decide either,” says Paul Finebaum, an ESPN college football expert who has tangled often with the coach. “Lane Kiffin is an introvert and he’s a drama queen. He’s sincere and he doesn’t get enough credit for his acting ability"
Money has ruined college football
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