Jackson Jambalaya

Why are we paying attention this asshole?

Where is the apology? This is the classic "I'm sorry you're mad" non-apology.

If you are explaining, you are losing.

Kiffin apologizes? What apology?

He needs to stay in his lane.

No do-overs. Words mean things and they stay on the web forever.

One year ago, Ole Miss fan was telling everyone who would listen that Kiffin LOVED Mississippi, his kids are all settled into Oxford, Kiffin is now sober and a fine Christian man, blah, blah, blah.

As a State fan I can confidently say .........stfu Lane. I warned my Ole Miss friends about their happiness when they hired this pile of cat crap.

Take it from a coach, what Kiffin said about recruiting is absolutely true. While there are many prejudices in south Louisiana . It’s a much more safe from the everything is racial life in Mississippi and people feel that freedom in Baton Rouge.

Lane just confirmed facts. Recruiters use Ole Miss history against them all the time.

12:44 PM, stop lying. I've been to Baton Rouge and the surrounding areas.

Sark agrees
GTHOM

No apology needed Kiffin...

Lane must not know that Mississippians proudly wears racism like a badge of honor!

@12:44
Right - Baton Rouge is an friendly crime- free oasis in the midst of land surrounded by racial strife and turmoil.

As a present head coach of a major university, I will say that Kiffin is afraid to shake hands. He's one weird dude.

Texas can't shake it's cowboy image. Tennessee can't shake it's country hillbilly image. Louisiana is the French cajun creole gumbo haven. They don't try to shake their national images which have deep cultural roots. It's damn hypocritical for the Ole Miss Rebels to think they can be Ole Miss and somehow shake the well earned national image. Lane only responded like all non-residents of the Magnolia State would when asked. Ole Miss no longer pays him so why lie?

Ridiculous. If Kiffen had stayed they would love his dirty underwear.

My grandfather coached football at ole Miss, and he played a large role in recruiting potential players. The then-current flag and mascot absolutely made out of state parents fearful that the state’s history and general social attitudes had not changed since the 50’s. And many of them wouldn’t let their kids play at Ole Miss, fearful that they would be treated like a second class citizen in this state (or worse).

Yes, the image is an obstacle for ole Miss football recruiting. Yall claim that yall like it when people “tell it how it is.” Well, all Kiffin did was tell it how it is—and now yall are mad. Fascinating.

Is Lane pretending like St. George, Louisiana doesn’t exist? Feel a little gross stooping to this level.

Kiffin is too funny.

This "hot yoga" man-child will do/say anything to get the spotlight back on HIM ... even if it's for two minutes of coverage in a women's magazine.

As has been said, his split with LSU is inevitable within the next few years. That will be his final and most drama filled middle school lil' girl break up.

And yeah, I'll give him credit ... he's a great coach and worked wonders for Ole Miss.

But I predict LSU is his last D-1 gig as a Head Coach.

Yea, sure we do. Maybe you see life through a racial lens. Most of us live our lives without ever thinking about race. It must be hard to be you.

2:01 It's certainly not true that those black football players are treated like 2nd class citizens at Ole Miss. On the contrary they are treated above 1st class. Well paid. It's the other blacks who aren't athletes that are treated like 3rd class. It's pretty common knowledge.

2:01,

And what decade did your grandfather coach?

Baton Rouge is Jackson if Mississippi State University were in Jackson. The only reason it has held on is because the college is there.

Earlier, yes, but Ole Miss's recruiting is fine now, as is Ole Miss in general. Look at its success. Ole Miss's athletic opponents may wish Kiffin's comments were still true, but coaches at other schools know Kiffin is merely trying to stir the pot to help LSU.
Rent free, Lane. Rent free.
RMQ

OM fans were all talking about Kiffin's rediscovered faith back when they hired him. Basically, the fans *wanted* to believe it. Happens all the time, schools make a (supposedly) winning hire and the fanbase falls all over itself explaining why the new coach is the human embodiment of all heavenly virtue. And, of course, it's never true, no matter the coach and no matter the school.

I remember talking to a couple of OM alums at a church Christmas event right after Kiffin was hired, and they were sharing all the "insider knowledge" about the coach's faith journey and how he was quietly leading Bible studies for players in Florida. I told them they were pouring it on a little thick, and that I wondered if anyone really knew where the man stood on anything. One of them replied that "as the Good Book says, by his fruits we shall know him."

And I guess we do, now.

Lane may very well be a great football coach, but first and foremost he is the NCAA's biggest shit stirrer. And I am a MS State fan.

Finebaum said he was around Kiffin on multiple occasions and repeatedly heard him bitch about the Ole Miss administration -- but it was NEVER about race, NEVER about the flag, and ALWAYS about money for players and the program. Politicians like Gunn rolled the flag into the narrative to get it changed. You think 17 or 18-year-olds, or their grandparents, give two shits about a flag? They're worried about scratchin the new rims on that new ride some booster just bought. I hope LSU gets the hell beat out of them all year -- and not because of Kiffin -- just because they're LSU.

3:11–the 90’s. Why is the decade all that relevant when there’s enough there for coaches to still be saying it today.

That doesn’t take away from the point. The point is that this state, including Ole Miss, has a perception issue (based on very real stuff from our past), and that perception issue is dulling our recruitment abilities.

The fact that the players may or may not be paid well doesn’t negate that point

Who cares what some "black out of state parents and grandparents" think anyway. As long as their sons and grandsons say "show me the money!" all that 1960's stuff is irrelevant anyway. Lane knows that and he sounds stupid talking about it.

Hundreds of young MS Confederate Rebels, Civil War dead, are buried on Campus in a mass grave on a hill top overlooking the track field. Most never owned slaves and fought for MS. Not for slavery. These 750 casualties of the 1862 Battle of Shiloh were patriotic to their state and their families. Ole Miss need never apologize for their namesake boys who gave their lives valiantly for this state.

Kiffin is an autistic degenerate who makes inappropriate Tik Tok with his daughter. Other than that he’s a great guy.

" Politicians like Gunn rolled the flag into the narrative to get it changed. You think 17 or 18-year-olds, or their grandparents, give two shits about a flag? They're worried about scratchin the new rims on that new ride some booster just bought."

So true ... and this Gunn character will never be "Guv'nah of Miss'sipy.

I think Lane will lead the Tigers to many victories, maybe even a SEC Championship, but I can't see him winning a second round championship playoff game.

Kiffin is doing a great job of digging his own grave.

I predict his "fall from grace" won't be on the field ... but from a salacious situation with a cute lil' LSU coed.

Kiffin just hasn’t had a reason to be the center of attention recently and needed some controversy to keep the talking heads saying his name for his ego…. Lol

Coach Kiffin is not wrong. Old Miss is a bastion of the Confederacy.

I don’t mind that. But it’s true.

So don’t get your feelings hurt when it speaks the truth.

Hotty Toddy!

What an attention whore.

One of the earliest slave auctions in America was in NYC continuously from 1600s under Dutch rule up to 1762 under the English, who operated the auction at the corner of Wall St and Water St.
The animosity against MS and it's symbols had nothing to do with Ole Miss during the Civil War. It was directed at the White groups who formed all over the South, including MS, to oppose and resist the Northern tyranny of Reconstruction and later groups all across the country (incl Colorado) refusal of Jim Crow Whites to accept the mandates of the Civil Rights Act of 1965 (passed by GOP, signed by Eisenhower) and subsequent terrorism and atrocities of the Klan, highlighted in "MS Burning".

Evie says it better than I could. She nails it. Worth the read. https://therebelwalk.com/2026/05/outdated-narratives-real-results-ole-miss-responds-without-saying-a-word/

Well now, Lane Kiffin may be stirring the pot, but he did not exactly invent Ole Miss's history.

A lot of folks are carrying on like he insulted their mama, when all he really did was say out loud what the rest of the country already thinks when they hear "Mississippi."

And watching some Ole Miss supporters bend over backward to pretend that Confederate flags, Colonel Rebel, and all that old baggage never shaped the school's image is something to behold.

You can call Kiffin a hypocrite, and you would not be wrong. But if one offhand comment can rattle this many people, maybe the issue is bigger than one football coach running his mouth.

Sometimes the truth stings worse than a yellow jacket under a lawn chair.

Too little, too late. Reminds me of the Steve Kiner "Archie Who?" affair (1969). Would love to write Golding's pregame pep talk before the LSU game this year.

Yup. Sarkisian, in comments picked up by On3, leaned into the tired and predictable angle questioning the school’s academics in the context of recruiting.

The "tired an predictable angle" of race and low academic expectations in Oxford are not "angles"....they are fact, and still going strong.

Where does lane live again?
https://www.npr.org/2024/06/06/nx-s1-4985986/louisiana-court-says-mostly-white-enclave-in-baton-rouge-may-secede-and-form-its-own-city

Face it guys the quality of life for a roach is better in Baton Rouge than Oxford.

Forget athletics, name one academic metric that UM beats LSU!

Nice try but St George is 30-35% black, 7% Asian , 8% Hispanic and the rest is white.

I don’t look to Kiffin as a life coach, but I don’t shake hands either. It’s a filthy custom.

Yet Alabama never gets a pasting for The Stand In The Schoolhouse Door. Odd, that.

If 99% of the world believed that McDonald's served spaghetti and meatballs, pizza, and beer, it wouldn't matter that it does not. Like so many other things, what potential customers believe (and tell themselves) counts. When there are NO facts to support a mistaken belief and, for example, it is easy to show that McDonald's does not serve any of that and never has, a fair number of that 99% can easily be swayed into believing something closer to the truth. But when there are at least some facts to support a not-entirely-incorrect view, and Ole Miss and Mississippi do have a history of racism, the best that can be done is to show things are changing. That's only a possibility if both are actually changing and changing in meaningful ways at a meaningful rate. The only opinions that matter as to "meaningful" are the opinions of those outsiders who the insiders are seeking to change. In this case, it does not matter in the least what Ole Miss boosters think and tell themselves, it only matters what those they seek to recruit think and tell each other. "Right" and "wrong" do not enter into that discussion.

That said, Kiffin was and is a scumbag, before OM, at OM, and now, at LSU. For the time being, he and his scumbaggery are LSU's problem. I suspect that if he falls out of favor there, he's probably finished as a big-bucks coach. None of that, however, matters as to Ole Miss's and Mississippi's image problem.

It is obvious to recruits and their families that Oxford and Baton Rouge are totally different environments. Both are technically small towns but Baton Rouge is surrounded by a very urban area. Oxford is not. I suspect that and travel time for families, makes a difference to some recruits and their families.

If you admire Lane Kiffin, that means you never met him. As they say the dude just ain’t right.

Kiffin's latest apology: "I'm sorry that I'm sorry."

Coach 12:44.... How bout this?
Baton Rouge is consistently ranked among the higher-crime midsize U.S. cities, with violent crime rates far above the national average.
Oxford, by contrast, is generally considered one of the safer college towns in Mississippi, with far fewer homicides and violent crimes overall. Its crime profile is more comparable to other SEC university towns than to large urban centers like Baton Rouge.
For perspective:
• Baton Rouge violent crime rates are commonly reported around 900–1,000+ violent crimes per 100,000 residents.
• Oxford’s violent crime rate is only a fraction of that.
A practical way to think about it:
• Baton Rouge = major Southern metro with significant urban violent crime issues.
• Oxford = relatively low-crime college community centered around University of Mississippi

"Oxford...is...one of the safer college towns in Mississippi..."

Um, being in the top few...among a few...ain't exactly braggin' rights.

Memo to Ole Miss : 'If you sleep with camels (in this case Kiffin) you get fleas"

@6:12 - Can a male student be a coed? Yes.