What Lane Kiffin is doing is disrespectful to Ole Miss

You get 12 games a year. You spend the other 353 days a year preparing for those 12 games. Recruiting, practicing, studying, conditioning, raising money. Programs invest decades of time and money into facilities, finding the right staff, and finding the right players just in the hopes that it will all come together in a special season where things line up and you can make a championship run. There are hundreds if not thousands of people who work to support those goals, thousands of people who contribute financially to support those goals.

And then finally, you find your team in one of those specials seasons you’ve been building toward, where a championship run is as real as it’s ever been. But instead of all the energy and attention being on the team and what’s happening on the field, you spend half the season in a quasi-reality show where your head coach is entertaining abandoning the program. Decades of investments being disrespected by a man child who’s enamored by a shiny new toy sitting in a window, who’s enamored by social media attention, who thinks he’s the modern Steve Spurrier but doesn’t have a single piece of hardware to back it up. Ridiculous.