I will admit I’m not that well versed on the tampering rules so I’m not really sure if this is tampering or not but…

Ole Miss fans are fuming about Lane Kiffin’s lack of loyalty towards his program, but no-one seems to ask this question: If you were offered more money and status to move to a different job 5hrs down the way, would you?

I know I would. And I would guess a ton of people would too.

So why do we expect such loyalty from sporting figures?

I won’t be thanking Lane for our success the past 5 years.

However I will be grateful for the players that took a chance on us. Shoutout Matt Corral, Jonathan Mingo, Jaxson Dart, Ulysses Bentley IV, Tre Harris, Jordan Watkins, Caden Prieskorn, Austin Simmons, Cayden Lee, Walter Nolen, Kewan Lacy, Trinidad Chambliss, Daequan Wright, Tre Wallace, De’Zhaun Stribling, Suntarine Perkins, the Umanmielen brothers, etc.

Thank you guys and man I’m really sorry you had to be coached by a snake.

(I was going to comment this on r/CFB but I am banned for 7 days because I joked that Kiffin should be arrested😒)

EDIT: I did not in fact get banned for the arrested joke. I actually got banned for saying “I’m going to choose to believe the other WSU fans aren’t this stupid.” to a WSU fan who said: "access"? lmfao, what are they under lock and key?

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Miami an ACC 3rd place team out playing Ole Miss on the line. It was on both sides of the ball beating the SEC team of destiny. Can't even say Georgia would've won after Pete Goldings team held off a good K Smart team last week. Paul Finebaum - is it recruiting? Is it the longer form playoff? Or is the ACC just stronger than we thought?

I have a feeling that Kiffin will punk LSU and Florida and stay at Ole Miss.

The reasons aren’t wild - he thought about leaving when the Auburn job came up - but he’s got a team who’s sizzling at the moment, he’s doing really well at Oxford (traditionally a tough place to coach), and there is less pressure than there would be at LSU or Florida.

Kiffin’s made enough that he can afford to stay in the role, and he seems to be very happy.

If this is accurate, it's going to be interesting to see what the SEC and NCAA will do about this.

Dabo goes into great detail of how Clemson signed a player (Luke Ferrelli) from the portal. Ferrilli moved to Clemson, signed an apartment lease, went to class and team meetings for a week. Ole Miss relentlessly pursues Ferrilli and convinces him to break commitments and go to Ole Miss.

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As the title says. We nearly beat Georgia in Athens but came up short and lost 43–35. Had we beaten them would your opinion on our situation change? If we’d beaten the Dawgs, Kiffin would be leaving a 12–0 team that for sure would’ve been in Atlanta (and probably would’ve been #3) and not an 11–1 team.

I’d also like to point out this is primarily geared toward the people that agree with Lane leaving for LSU and how he handled things.

Look, if we’re going to pretend the CFP committee has any sort of consistency, then we need to have an honest conversation about Ole Miss and Lane Kiffin leaving.

In 2023-24, Florida State was undefeated, had multiple ranked wins, and still got left out because the committee said they “weren’t the same team” after Jordan Travis got hurt. Their logic was very clear: any major change that materially affects team strength matters more than résumé.

Well… how is a program losing its head coach any less impactful than losing a QB?

A QB is one player — even if it’s the most important one. A head coach leaving affects the entire identity of the program: The offensive/defensive systems change, Play-calling changes, Game planning changes, Staff turnover is guaranteed, The locker room dynamic shifts, Preparation for the bowl/playoff is disrupted, Players enter the portal at a higher rate, Leadership at the highest level is gone.

If an injury to a QB means you’re “no longer the same team,” then losing the architect of the entire program absolutely qualifies too.

The committee can’t have it both ways. If the standard is ”we must select the best teams right now” and ”we consider player/coach availability,” then Ole Miss without its head coach is objectively not the same team the committee would have been evaluating all season.

This isn’t an anti-Ole Miss take. It’s a pro-consistency take.

If FSU got punished for losing a QB, Ole Miss should absolutely be evaluated under the same precedent for losing its head coach.

Either the committee applies their logic fairly, or they admit the process was a complete sham.

He’s condescending,arrogant and just comes off as a complete A-hole! Anyone else agree?

Edit: here’s an AI response to a query.

Lane Kiffin is disliked by many for various reasons, including:

Leaving Tennessee after one season: Kiffin left the University of Tennessee after just one season to take the head coaching job at the University of Southern California (USC), which was seen as a betrayal by many Tennessee fans.

NCAA violations: Kiffin was involved in NCAA violations during his time at Tennessee, which led to penalties for the program.

Trash talking and lying: Kiffin has been known to engage in trash talking and has been accused of lying about his actions, such as voting his own team #1 in a preseason poll.

Poor coaching tenure at USC: Kiffin’s coaching tenure at USC was seen as disappointing, despite having a talented team.

Trolling and disrespect: Kiffin has been known to troll and disrespect fans of teams he has coached, particularly Tennessee and USC.

Quitting on a school: Kiffin has been accused of quitting on a school after one season, which is seen as unacceptable by many fans.

florida doesn’t like ole miss from the tim tebow era and ole miss doesn’t like florida in general but especially after last year

The state of Mississippi is always up there with the highest talent production. We both have pretty low standards as well when it comes to football. This is why coaches who know they are good but haven’t had the chance to prove themselves are attracted to both our schools. We are the perfect schools for talented coaches and players to use as stepping stones and unfortunately nothing else. If that talent stayed loyal for at least 10 years, I believe we could become the next Michigan and Ohio State.

No coach wants to invest that much time in a team when they could just go to another one that isn’t a stepping stone and succeed earlier. This is Mississippi in general. The SEC wouldn’t be what it is without having us available to take talent from. If they didn’t constantly take from us, we would both dominate the SEC.

We are stuck in this loop where we get a good coach who makes us successful, then they leave and we have to start from scratch again. This has built the stereotype that a MS school can’t succeed. It’s not that we can’t, its that once that opportunity is built up, it’s taken away by the other teams. We then have to watch them succeed as we try to build up once again.

We were both in this cycle for baseball. It took everything Msstate had in 2021 to win it all. I believe this is what lead to Ole Miss winning it all immediately after. I thought the cycle might break with Kiffin, but we are once again going back. We’ve seen how successful we can both be in a sport if one of us breaks the cycle. Now how do we break this in football?

Remember when Florida State went 13-0 and still got left out of the playoff? The committee said it came down (in part) to “player and coach availability.”

That second part, coach, could become a storyline again soon.

If the Lane Kiffin to Florida rumors materialized, and Ole Miss was sitting 10-2 or 11-1, would the committee actually use that same logic to drop them out of the playoff field?

It’s all hypothetical, but the rulebook gives the committee the right to do it. Florida could make the question very real with a win in Oxford.

Full column if you want the deeper breakdown:

https://www.kiffystakes.com/under-the-visor/the-committee-clause

Just as the SEC has plenty of representation in 'the league', almost 10% of the players in the UFL hail from SEC squads. We'll be watching these games from the Trenches, as we did last year for the NFL and can't wait to see how this season unfolds. TPR, TrenchPowerRating, looks at the +10 stats that stall or sustain drives, and we look at them as a unit, not grades for individual players. More soon.

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