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re: ESPN Insider Calls Out Lane Kiffin for How He Handled Ole Miss Football Departure

Posted on 12/2/25 at 11:16 am to
Posted by smash williams
San Diego
Member since Apr 2009
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Posted on 12/2/25 at 11:16 am to
Mina Kimes is way better
Posted by SOL2
Dallas burbs
Member since Jan 2020
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Posted on 12/2/25 at 11:26 am to
Lib
Posted by Papa Tigah
TIGER ISLAND, LA
Member since Sep 2007
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Posted on 12/2/25 at 11:28 am to
Posted by Goldrush25
San Diego, CA
Member since Oct 2012
33884 posts
Posted on 12/2/25 at 11:32 am to
It's really easy for everyone else to have these ideas about what LK should be doing when they don't have the offer in front of them. They call that pocket watching.
Posted by Swampcat
Member since Dec 2003
12273 posts
Posted on 12/2/25 at 11:34 am to
No more team it’s I , as in N “I “L…….

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Posted by Volvagia
Fort Worth
Member since Mar 2006
52895 posts
Posted on 12/2/25 at 11:36 am to
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It is possible to say, ‘You know what, thank you so much for your interest, LSU and Florida. I’m going to focus on my team, and then we can have these conversations when I’m done. And, if you can’t wait for me to do that, then go ahead and move on, but that’s what I need to do is focus on this’.


Except he argued for staying coaching for the rest of the season. It was ole miss who slammed that door shut.
Posted by ExpoTiger
Member since Jul 2014
7251 posts
Posted on 12/2/25 at 11:37 am to
Didn’t Sumrall do the exact same thing?
Posted by Lsutigerturner
Member since Dec 2016
7148 posts
Posted on 12/2/25 at 11:52 am to
U til ncaa fixes transfer portal and early and normal enrollment times, or decides academic and sports schedules in line it will ALWAYS be like this. I think only way this gets fixed is by admitting these are not college athletes and maybe they go to school only after competing college athletics
Posted by Scoob
Near Exxon
Member since Jun 2009
22814 posts
Posted on 12/2/25 at 12:10 pm to
quote:

Not so surprising remarks from LSU folks, but they aren't on the other side of the fence. Amiright?

Knowing how most LSU fans post on here, if this script were flipped, it would be a nuclear-level meltdown.
Nobody faults the Ole Miss fans for being sad that they lost their very good head coach.
And nobody really disputes that it's poor timing, especially for the Ole Miss team.

It's the national media's outrage that is so hypocritical and annoying.

Kentucky just hired Oregon's OC to be head coach. It's being reported that he will finish out his duties as OC in the playoffs this year.
Penn State is targeting the BYU coach. BYU is playing in the Big 12 championship with a playoff berth on the line.
Florida hired Sumrall from Tulane, who is playing for a playoff berth. BTW, Tulane will allow him to coach the team the rest of the way this year.

Auburn and Arkansas just hired the coaches from USF and Memphis, 2 AAC teams (along with Tulane) that are bowl-bound, and had been in the playoff discussion this year.

LSU hired Kiffin away from Ole Miss. They outbid Florida in the process, or else he likely would have gone there instead.
Is LSU NOT supposed to pursue the best coach it can?

Is the issue about poaching a coach in-conference? Well, Auburn took Tuberville from Ole Miss. Arkansas took Nutt from Ole Miss. Florida took Mullen from Miss State. Go back further, you will find more.

Nobody's crying about ANY of these coaching hires in the media, other than LSU taking Kiffin.
Posted by Nado Jenkins83
Land of the Free
Member since Nov 2012
65024 posts
Posted on 12/2/25 at 12:14 pm to
Heather dinich reads off a teleprompter. You can tell she is speaking from the mind
Posted by SpqrTiger
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2004
9625 posts
Posted on 12/2/25 at 12:25 pm to
Total BS. Such a hypocrite, too. There’s not a broadcaster alive who would not make the jump to a bigger market the instant they got an offer. Old loyalties be damned.

But more importantly… no one ever sees it from LSU’s point of view. Just what the frick are we supposed to do? We are on a timeline, too. And we are going to push to get what we want. Because surprise… surprise… Ole Miss and their priorities DO NOT MATTER to us. I missed the part where we were only supposed to interview people who whose seasons were 100% complete and their employers were okay with it.
Posted by WonPercent
BATON ROUGE
Member since Aug 2023
1051 posts
Posted on 12/2/25 at 12:31 pm to
quote:

You might wanna rethink your stance on Kay Adams.


She's still adorable though.
Posted by lowhound
Effie
Member since Aug 2014
9582 posts
Posted on 12/2/25 at 12:33 pm to
LSU didn't give him the ultimatum, Ole Miss did. Tell their AD he fricked it up, not Lane.
Posted by jrobic4
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2011
11978 posts
Posted on 12/2/25 at 12:34 pm to
If I want a snarky woman's opinion, I can just ask my wife what she thinks
Posted by jasonbr1975
Member since Sep 2024
1029 posts
Posted on 12/2/25 at 12:38 pm to
And, how many players leave their coaches and quit on their team through the portal??? Waiting for an answer.
Posted by CajunBullet
New Iberia
Member since Sep 2017
2786 posts
Posted on 12/2/25 at 12:48 pm to
Screw ESPN Insider!



Posted by terriblegreen
Souf Badden Rewage
Member since Aug 2011
11880 posts
Posted on 12/2/25 at 12:48 pm to
Heather Dinich is unqualified to comment on football.
Posted by Scoob
Near Exxon
Member since Jun 2009
22814 posts
Posted on 12/2/25 at 1:02 pm to
Honestly, for all the national media members complaining about Kiffin to LSU, I'd like to see them respond when asked "is LSU allowed to compete in football?"

We targeted a guy that, per his own words, had 2 other schools pursuing him. 2; in his press conference he said he had to consider four places, and LSU's NIL deal was the best of them. The NIL remark eliminates an NFL team from that list. We know Ole Miss (where he was at), LSU where he landed, and Florida make 3 of the 4, we aren't sure who is the last one. Penn State apparently?

Is LSU NOT allowed to pursue a coach that both Florida and Penn State wanted? Are we supposed to sit back until January, and pick someone from the leftover pile?
Posted by IM_4_LSU
Savannah, GA
Member since Mar 2014
12555 posts
Posted on 12/2/25 at 1:07 pm to
Thats not the schedule of College Football so she needs to either get educated or shut the frick up.
Posted by Thib-a-doe Tiger
Member since Nov 2012
36542 posts
Posted on 12/2/25 at 1:10 pm to
quote:

Not so surprising remarks from LSU folks, but they aren't on the other side of the fence. Amiright?

Knowing how most LSU fans post on here, if this script were flipped, it would be a nuclear-level meltdown.

It's a shame how easy it is to be a frickin dick, even when you know the situation is completely fricked up.




There's not many jobs someone would leave LSU for. OM can't say the same and that's why they mad. OM is the one who got used (even though theY benefitted from it) and LK is the hoe?
This post was edited on 12/2/25 at 1:47 pm
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