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Lane Kiffin Shares Some Of The Recruiting Issues He Ran Into During His Time At Ole Miss

by Staff Reporter

May 11, 202648 Comments

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During a recent interview with Vanity Fair, Lane Kiffin revealed some issues he ran into while recruiting players when he was previously at Ole Miss.

According to Kiffin, some of the recruits he was pursuing said their families didn't want them to move to Oxford:

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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; Oxford is about 66% white, 26% Black. )

The comments from Kiffin will surely add more fuel to the fire for the LSU-Ole Miss rivalry.

September 19 in Oxford can’t get here soon enough.

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CatfishJohn•7 hours

To be fair, he's not saying Ole Miss or the people in Oxford are racist. It's just a perception that older black people have because of the history, etc. Shouldn't be controversial, but of course people will have a come apart.

crewdepoo•5 hours

He kinda is. They've had 150 years to ditch those traditions and names

HuntinFishin25•5 hours

There are laws on top of laws to protect individuals from racism. The racism that exist today is in the individuals heart and the legacy media....HARD STOP!

bluebuck1•2 hours

You must be an older black person, if you know what they think. Otherwise, you need to talk to some of them and many of the black youth. None of them would agree that a racial insensitivity issue does not exist in many parts of our society. The good part is that he is saying the truth that will help change Ole Miss and many others for the better.

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Orndorf2•7 hours

He's right. I have friends that were recruited to D1 football. The history of Oxford doesn't make black americans feel warm and fuzzy. Especially when the confederate symbols of oppression are still present. Duh.

p226•2 hours

Really? When? In the early 60’s?

MarsellusWallace•4 hours

Why is LSU's mascot the Tigers? What are they named after?

TigerVespamon•3 hours

Ask the ancestors of Major Chatham Roberdeau Wheat, CSA.

jasonbr1975•7 hours

Money is green, not blue and red! That's mostly what all college players care about anyways.

Tiger2tiga•6 hours

That can get money from any school.

Spelt it rong•7 hours

Lived in Oxford. Loved it. Will retire there.

CjNola75•5 hours

Good for you!

chadr07•5 hours

Awesome. Maybe you can go ask Pete Golding to sign his autograph on your arse cheek while you are there.

Csmims•6 hours

Now compare crime rates

HurricaneCamille•1 hour

I wrote the same thing this morning. The comment was deleted by the DEI at Tigerdroppings. BTR is a cesspool of crime compared to Oxford.

DeafVallyBatnR•7 hours

I hate Ole Miss and i have been saying for years. "How do black families allow there children to attend that University". I get why part of my close Mississippi family are Ole Miss fans. But they aren't changing the past and I dont blame them. But I also see it from the people who came from grand or great grandparents of slavery.

BeepBopBoop•7 hours

I’ve said same. Schools should be using the past to negative recruit Ole Miss.

Tiger2tiga•6 hours

Same can be said for LSU. Louisiana’s history isn’t clean. And still today many racists are attacking black Americans. U have 4 majority white districts but 2 majority black districts is a problem.

GEAUX4•5 hours

Why is that a problem

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sharkfhin•7 hours

Reb Fandom on X have melted again over this article.

Blueghost1978•1 hour

Good.Love to hear it. F Ole Miss. If they don’t like it, then they should change their nickname. Their mascot was changed to Black Bears a long time ago and then to Landsharks, yet they still keep REBELS as their nickname. Let them BURN.

TouchdownTony•3 hours

Good grief man. I get where hes kinda coming from but to throw this hammer down on Ole Miss didn’t need to happen. You are gone from there now and If it was a problem you should have said something then. Ole Lane is gonna march to his beat and leave a Sherman wake in his path.

KCT•4 hours

I like Lane, but this was stupid on his part. They're going to need the Secret Service to get out of Oxford alive if he keeps fanning the flames. Be the bigger man and let it go, Lane.

JackaReaux•7 hours

Don’t let them read the OT

VooDude•9 min

Ahem, clever guy who made this thread: LINK

PuertoRicanBlaze•57 min

Now do the crime rates.

JoeyP239•4 hours

What a stupid comment. Mississippi has the highest percentage of black people in the entire US.

6R12•4 hours

Insert memes Allen Iverson and Jim Mora quotes about practice/playoffs. Just substitute "are we still talking about segregation" ?????????????

Yeti_Chaser•6 hours

Maybe I should've gone to OM

Tiger2tiga•6 hours

Maybe so. We don’t need more racists in Louisiana

chadr07•5 hours

You know, the people that keep hollering racist may need to look in the mirror and realize that they are the real racist here.

KCT•4 hours

Most of the racists these days are black. Like Obama and that crazy wife of his.

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p226•2 hours

This is f…king stupid.

No SEC university has been segregated in my lifetime. In MOST of your lifetimes. This is total bullshite.

Lane is just sick for saying this in a magazine interview.

FATBOY TIGER•2 hours

Why even bring it up.

ibleedpurpleandgold.•3 hours

When LSU fan, but I would never ditch anything like the confederate flag or anything that has been my schools reflection from the beginning. Ole Miss is completely correct and not changing any of that. Who the hell are these people that think they can determine what we do?

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