re: Ole Miss has offered Lane a new contract

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If lane Kiffin is okay to stay in ole miss and struggle to recruit against the top teams then I lose respect for him

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Auburn’s not that great of a job compared to Ole Miss…

It’s part of his job to help with NIL and he failed at. Congrats on getting an a baseball coach as an AD who failed at about 90% clip on his hires. You hired our Ray Tanner. Good luck.

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As opposed to LSU having to pay $9.5 million a year to steal a coach from an independent school with an enrollment of only 8,600 kids...

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You could have just said LSU Got Alignment.

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Auburn’s not that great of a job compared to Ole Miss…

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The ignorance routinely displayed on this website is fantastic

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Your NIL does suck, and it took losing your AD and him standing at our podium saying he left because

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Dude. The reason or NIL contributions skyrocketed after he left wasn’t for spite.. he literally didn’t do a single thing to promote the NIL. No one had a clue what to do. He sat back and did nothing with it.

After he left, and said that, the admin said “hey fans, do this to join the NIL.” And we did.

Cohen literally didn’t communicate at all with the alumni about the nil, and was astounded it wasn’t doing well.

That is the AD you just hired.

Cool


It really makes no difference to me. I have no control over any of it.

If he is successful in pulling Kiffin to AU then he’s already way ahead of what I expected. I’m guessing that will be why you are mad he left MSU.

Difference in AU and MSU is Auburn doesn’t need an AD to push NIL, the collective is rolling on its own.

Also apparently Cohen has dramatically changed his tune because he emphasized NIL in his introductory speech but also the things he was saying at MSU doesn’t really fit the “he didn’t care about NIL” from State people. He sounded kinda frustrated they weren’t doing more.

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If you’re a Mississippi State fan, you should be concerned,” Cohen said. “We’ve never gotten outmoneyed in the SEC because we’re an equal partner in the Southeastern Conference. We receive the same distribution that everybody else gets. But when it comes down to passing the hat around an alumni base, I’m concerned. Our friends at Alabama or Texas A&M or Florida or Georgia or you name it, their hat’s going to end up being a little bigger than ours, and that’s a concern.” Cohen said he has already seen bigger programs in some sports leading the arms race. He said he had heard three other SEC baseball programs had more NIL money at their disposal than Mississippi State’s entire athletic department. And while that might not hurt the Bulldogs yet, it will soon, Cohen promised. “This isn’t punching us in the face — yet,” he said. “This isn’t going to get us — this year. If we’re not competitive in the space, it’s going to be the next year and the year after that.” While Cohen expressed his disdain for how NIL has become in ways a pay-for-play scenario for many college athletes, he said all MSU can do for now is play by the rules. Cohen bluntly requested funding Mississippi State’s NIL collective, The Bulldog Initiative. He even pulled up contact information for attorney Charlie Winfield, the man in charge of the collective, on a PowerPoint slide. “The bottom line is, our collective needs money,” Cohen said. “It can’t come in $5 at a time, although we’ll never push that aside. Our collectives need money. They do. That’s how we’re going to survive this thing.”

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Must be why Ole Miss could only get 17 4/5* to watch the biggest game at Ole Miss all year while 36 4/5* came to watch poor ole lowly Auburn

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You guys currently have a recruiting rankings of 51 with a coach who didnt recruit. Kind of proves my point that you still need someone to actually recruit / fundraise / etc... Even with built in advantages, you still need someone to actually do the job.

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Correct.

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I still maintain Freeze is one of the best, if not the best recruiter in the nation.

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Lol. You can’t be serious.

I can name 3 in the SEC currently better than Freeze.