MedDawg

OM hired Freeze, Beard, Durkin, and this guy https://olehottytoddy.com/posts/hiring-of-former-syracuse-head-coach-quentin-hillsman-by-ole-miss-women-s-basketball-faces-backlash-01htnj8hpxdd

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I dont think so after this one. For one thing, he would be way too expensive for most places to try and the way it went down, no other AD is going to want to get involved in that. And to have 2 programs he dreamed of offer, he hears them out, but still chooses to stay, he would finally be fully committed.

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Until Bama or Texas opened up.

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In what years would one consider playing an SEC schedule weak? It's rare.

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When you play 6 of the bottom 8 teams in the conference and only 1 of the Top 6.

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I disagree. Miss st sucks

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State is literally three plays from 8-1, two of them missed field goals, another was a personal foul on State after State had stopped Texas on 4th down.

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Yep...I think he's had so much success at Ole Miss he's pushed the bar too high to take an LSU or FL or Aub job at this point. They would all have to make significate improvements to just be considered a lateral this point. 5 years ago

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No. Not even close. Right now both Florida and LSU have better rosters than OM (by star ratings). Kiffin would immediately make either UF or LSU better than OM in 2026.

https://athlonsports.com/college-football/ranking-college-footballs-rosters-2025

7 of State's 8 SEC opponents are in the top 25.

Vandy was terrible under Clark lea for a couple years as well but they were competing. Obviously their expectations are different so they were patient and now he has that program rolling because they gave him time.

Two overtime losses to ranked teams and a 2-point SEC loss away is most definitely competing. Literally three plays from 7-1, and State has yet to play any of the six worst teams in the SEC.

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I can say, as an Ole Miss fan, that losing Kiffin would not be ideal, but we have successfully marketed ourselves as a great program willing to pay top dollar to support a coach with pay, assistant pay, fan support, NIL, and the complete support of the administration. Other good coaches will be happy to come to Oxford. So we will ultimately be fine.

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Kiffin is the best coach available, so the next one will not be as good. OM will drop if Kiffin leaves. Franklin wouldn't be as successful at OM as Kiffin. Who else? Golding? Ha! Sumrall at Tulane? Golesh? Both good coaches but not Kiffin.

OM can't poach any sitting head coach that Penn State or Florida could not. Because of NIL and Kiffin elevating OM temporarily, OM would still be good by OM standards, but 7-9 wins would be more typical than 10 wins.

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Well ole Miss fans say they’ll match this So Gators going to need to up it to 15 right?

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Offer 20, just to be sure

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When are you morons going to realize that anything before 2020 doesn’t f**king matter. It’s a new era. 20 years ago was the Florida job better than ole Miss? Absolutely. Now? A lot harder to answer. Wins and losses since the start of the NIL/Transfer era indicate that Ole Miss is the better job (we have the third most conference wins behind Georgia and Bama since the start of 2021). Just because you used to be good (yall really have only had two coaches ACTUALLY win big there), doesn’t mean you will be good in this era. Look at yall, Auburn, Nebraska, USC, Oklahoma (more recently), Florida state (been better than yall more often than not since 2020). I could keep going. It is going to be so fun to watch yall melt when the new Ole Miss/Kiffin contract is announced.

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That is football ignorant. So you actually think that if Kiffin did go to Florida that Ole Miss would still be better than Florida? Everyone knows that would not be true.

Ole Miss fans have done this with every coach. They got cocky with Brewer, Tuberville, Cutcliffe, Orgeron, Houston Nutt, Freeze, and now Kiffin. They act like they are a dynasty whenever they have 2-3 good years. Right now they are good with Kiffin, but they are not the dynasty they think they are.

Now they think their NIL is and will always be better than much richer schools. They actually think they have more money than Penn State and Florida. Penn State is spending $750 million on a stadium renovation and OM cancelled their stadium renovation because they didn't have enough money for that and NIL.

Kiffin IS a really good coach and was smart to hit NIL early. However, Ole Miss would most definitely drop if he left and wherever he goes would be good.

I'm not even saying Kiffin will or should leave. He has it made at OM, big money, big NIL, and lower expectations.

None of this has anything to do with State at all, except that similarly Mullen should have stayed at State, won 8-10 games per year, and he would be way ahead of where he is now.