That Vanity Fair piece was much different than I expected

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we need to diversify areas that have too many white people.

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That's why BK always had a black kick off guy.

They’re already trying to deny it by showing all the black athletes that have played there. It still boggles my mind that a black athlete would play for a team named for the confederacy.

Sounds like you only know half the history there bud. Do better research.

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Other than that, it was a white liberal magazine writer's piece on how black athletes are only making millions of dollars instead of tens of millions in college football, and that we need to diversify areas that have too many white people.

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Wow. It’s crazy how people can read the same thing and come away with 2 completely different thoughts on its content, depending on what lens they read it through. Pretty clear what lens you used. What you are referring to in what I quoted was a smaller piece of the article than the Confederate stuff. Which was tiny itself.

And yes, the writer, did choose to touch on what you said, but he didn’t provide commentary to the issue. He simply quoted a congressman from—Pennsylvania?—that nobody’s ever heard of, and whose quote was stupid. It was a small paragraph inside a bigger section that dealt with the changing landscape of college football, most notably NIL, that was a major factor in Kiffin’s decision to come to LSU. You saw things that literally were not there.

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The way it was marketed made it seem like a deeper-dive into him and his story and him coming to Baton Rouge, which I was kind of excited for.

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That’s exactly what it was, you dumbass. It started with him as a child, his personal and professional journey, and how his cumulative past experiences shaped him, which helped shape how he made the decision tonight leave Oxford for Baton Rouge.

I learned a lot I hadn’t known before. I believe you were kind of excited for it. Excited to read it as what you wanted it to be, so you could come on here bitching about the liberal writer for the liberal magazine who are all racists against us whites.

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It still boggles my mind that a black athlete would play for a team named for the confederacy

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Not everyone is looking for reasons to be offended. Last I checked, everyone that fought in the civil war is dead.

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Every university in the SEC has ties to the confederacy, segregation and/or being on the wrong side of the civil rights movement, especially if you dig a bit.

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Obviously. But Ole Miss’s is more in your face. And the university has the perception of being full of white fratstars and sorority skanks. I’ve never been on Ole Miss’s campus. Like most people in the U.S. So all we see is what ESPN gives us from the Grove on Gameday.
It’s the perception, not the reality, when this issue influences a decision. The school/ reputation, regardless of if it’s fair not. And that’s usually all most people have to go on. I doubt many families are doing deep dives into the historical origins of most of these universities.

Ole Miss has tried to distance itself from the symbols recently. And more and more people who lived through the Civil Rights Movement Era are dying off. And kids will play just about anywhere for a few extra 100k. I don’t think this will be much of an issue 10, 20, 50 years from now. But it is one now—maybe small—but apparently one Lane wanted to not be another in his world of a million distractions.