One observation on Kiffin

I’m sure his familiarity with Austin Thomas helps and AT can assure him the keys to the car are his and his budget is semi-unlimited. I just keep thinking, you don’t pay someone roughly 50M to go away without bringing in a big gun

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Outside of Georgia, who have they played this year that's worth a damn?

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Ole Miss schedule avoided Bama, TAMU, Texas, Tenner, Mizzou, and yes, Vandy.

SEC wins include Arky, UK, LSU, USCe. All bottom of the SEC standings.

OU was an impressive win on the road. I'll give Lane that one.

Could also be as simple as his agent saying, “Lane, if you troll those bastards while I’m trying to squeeze every bit of cash out of LSU, UF, & OM, I’ll choke the shite out of you”

It's going to take a little while to finalize a permanent AD. Until that happens, we can't really hire a top tier coach. Lane will be in the playoffs, so his timeline is delayed anyway, so the shitshow that's going on right now doesn't really matter unless the AD search carries out passed whenever Ole Miss loses in the playoffs.

Lane is still in play if the money people want him to be.

That is a good observation, and I honestly don’t see Lane as the type to not troll because his agent said so.

He strikes me as one who doesn’t give a shite about playing this by the book.

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I just keep thinking, you don’t pay someone roughly 50M to go away without bringing in a big gun

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This is the ticket.

Ole Miss didn't get in because they lost to Kentucky (whose lone SEC win was against the Rebels) and they imploded against LSU and Florida, who both weren't very good.

You are right that it doesn't matter who you play during the regular season to get into the playoffs, but look at what happened to Indiana last year. They play a bunch of nobodies all year but get smoked when they had to play actual competition.

Who have you been impressed with that Ole Miss has played and beaten?

You think their outlook would be better or worse if they had to swap out Mississippi State and Kentucky for either Bama, A&M, Vanderbilt, Texas, Tennessee, Missouri, etc.? He'd probably be more inclined to leave if he has another loss to tack on if it was to any of those other teams.

You can obviously get into the playoffs but eventually, you will go up against good teams, and that is where your mettle is tested.

Sure, Ole Miss is 8-1 right now, but they struggled against Kentucky, Arkansas and Washington State. Not exactly the cream of the crop.

Kiffin knows this. They can make it to the playoff, but how do you think they are going to fare when they have to go up against the big boys?

Is he content with playing cupcakes and just making the playoffs or does he want more than that? Again, that's up to him.

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Sure, Ole Miss is 8-1 right now, but they struggled against Kentucky, Arkansas and Washington State. Not exactly the cream of the crop.

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Arkansas while not a good team overall is a very good offensive team. They gave fits to nearly every team they’ve played this year outside ND.

So we’re going to dissect his wins now? Outside maybe Ohio State there isn’t a top flight team that just dominates every game like in years past. Ole Miss has already proven they can compete with the top teams this season (see UGA). They very well might lose in their first playoff game but they made it.

Let’s stop putting down other programs to elevate ours. Because quite frankly Ole Miss is the better program right now. Plus with all the other extra drama going on we are a complete dumpster fire and no decision is needed.