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Unless they’re working for him, it may be sleezy but there’s nothing inherently wrong with it. It’s an adult talking to another adult.

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Technically, yeah, but having been in admin at one time, this is one of those things that often goes south, and when it does, it's bad.

There's a good chance that Kiffin is going to eventually frick up in a way that an AD can't cover. If it was just a little skirt chasing, maybe not, but that story about him, the ex, and the 2024 Kentucky game, if true, is a giant red flag saying his behaviour is a little more pathological than a little consensual fun on the weekend.

Don't get me wrong - I know there are a lot of college girls who will hook-up just for a good story. I've had more than a few "not tonight, Satan," moments in the last 20 years myself that really tempted me to rethink my, "never shite where you eat policy," and I'm definitely not rich or a fitness model.

Which is all to say, I'm not pearl clutching over the purity of female undergrads. But dudes who are constantly out there chasing arse and then getting fricking bent out of shape when said arse wants nothing to do with them anymore, if ever - that very often turns into a huge problem.

And hell, maybe that's just what LSU wants so that, if he can't win big, they can get out that huge buyout for cause. Lane's narcissism and inability to not stay horny on main are pretty good insurance policies. That being said, I will agree that's all LSU's problem now. I don't really give a frick what he does down there, and I wouldn't be surprised if LSU covered up most anything if he's winning Nattys.

A million years ago, I was hanging out with Fred Noe right around when Jim Beam hired Kid Rock to promote Red Stag. We were fricking with him a little bit over it and asked what he thought about it. He said, "I feel like we're one drunk night at a Waffle House away from a PR disaster with that white trash a-hole, but they tell me he's good for selling whiskey."

I feel like that was Keith Carter's life the last six years.

Folks really need to learn how NIL works in the clearinghouse era.

LSU can promise all they want, but it has to clear. There is already one SEC school in the red this year because they can't get cleared to pay out all of the NIL money by the current NIL Go clearinghouse, and it's going to get worse next year, so they are just having to eat it. It gets worse next year when they can't even do that.

Even with a bagman, teams can't shift $25 million around under the table without it getting noticed.

The game is showing how much NIL a program has on paper and hoping fans and players alike don't understand that it's all just potential. They can't spend a penny of it without it clearing. The example I cited above is already one showing how it's affecting things. I suspect some of these flips we're seeing are players realizing these NIL warchests schools have on paper are just hypothetical until it gets approved by NIL Go, which is showing itself to definitely not be a rubber stamp. If you're getting paid $1 million in endorsement money, there has to be proof that the value of your brand and the amount of work your doing for that $1 million matches to what the market actually bears.

Suffice to say, it would be extremely rare for a CFB player, especially for one coming in from high school, to have enough brand equity to be worth $1 million advertising partnerships without a level of work commitments that would be detrimental to their being a college athlete.

All this "We got $25 million to buy everyone, baws!" is just PR spin that knuckle dragging dipshits who haven't read up on any of this stuff are spewing. They may have really have that much money to spend if allowed, but justifying spending all of it is already difficult.

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What do we know about Faulkner?

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Like all coaches, Goldings success will largely come down to who he gets as OC and DC. That, and our NIL collective remaining strong.

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Bingo Bango.

And no one is bringing as much heat as Lane Kiffin does, for good or bad. That guy is the personification of a Faustian pact. Ole Miss will have to hustle more to maintain the national profile that's been earned because we don't have Football Kardashian here anymore, but it can be done.

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Where is it posted?

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I dug this up for a Gator board I'm on in trying to explain that there's a lot more to why Ole Miss got better in the last six years than just Kiffin and that Kiffin was a pretty controversial hire here at the time.

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You ask me, it depends on which Kiffin he hired. Kiffin has been called a football genius. He also has been called brash, immature and worse. His hiring is a calculated risk. Carter believed he needed to make a big splash with this hire because of an apathetic fan base. He strongly believes that revenue generated by increased ticket sales and athletic donations will more than make up for the millions this coaching change will cost. And he might be right.

But not all Ole Miss people are so enamored with Kiffin’s hiring. Archie Manning, the school’s all-time athletic hero, has been noticeably reticent on the subject. He was not part of this hiring process.

There are others.

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It looks like LK fricked us with Sumrall on the way out the door:

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That was 100% a joke about only getting the job because Kiffin turned it down for what it's worth.

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I’m seeing on On3 that Lane Kiffin offered the players $7 million to come with him today, and LSU sent 3 planes.

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I'm not even sure he can do that. While it may go to court eventually, for now, the revenue sharing changes coming next season along with the introduction of an NIL clearinghouse are going to change the way money is flying around next year a lot. It will probably bring the bagman back as well, but money will work a lot different next year, at least above the table.

Sigh, well - here comes an essay. But I've been stewing on this since watching the game in person Saturday.

It's quite a bit different than what happened at LSU. First, the SoS isn't firing anyone or telling the school what to do. He's expressing a sentiment widely felt around Oxford as well that after the Kiffin PR tour earlier this season, he seems kind of full of shite.

That's a lot different than the governor wading in about someone needing to be looked into and then basically taking over the search, regardless of how he wanted to put it. A LOT different.

Look, I can promise you that I can't stand MS politicians even more than most of you here for obvious reasons, but that guy is also an alumni and responding as one to other alumni. I get why he is frustrated. I am a bit too both ways. I'd love to have this settled since I have an interest in both teams, at least as long as live in Oxford.

I know that face-painter over at Locked On Ole Miss loves making some tortured Batman reference about how Ole Miss is used to living in darkness or whatever (it's cringe as frick), but that's not accurate. People are pretty damn sick of going through this and having to wait until the end of the season for him to make up his mind, which in turn really hurts recruiting and conducting a search at Ole Miss if he leaves.

Do they want him to stay despite it? Absolutely. Would they prefer he make up his damn mind and go if he's going. Big Yeah. I think the perspective is that Freeze, despite his numerous flaws (can't stand him either) proved you can win here, Matt Luke sucked, and then Lane has proven you can consistently win 10+ and get to the playoffs. They're looking at a trend line that goes up with a good coach, and they know the longer Lane vacillates, the better the chance is they settle with what's left and won't have one any more.

Are they wrong to assume that? Maybe; I don't know. I can tell you that they have done much better with NIL, foundations, and revenue sharing than most schools have -including UF- and have a lot more money than people think down here. Does UF overall have more money? Absolutely of course they do, and do to multiple reasons. But Ole Miss isn't broke, has an excellent operation and facilities, and has an administration completely behind having a championship team.

Hence the post he was responding to.

As far UF - I have watched more Ole Miss football in the last decade than probably anyone else on this forum without "rebel" in their handle (ironic because I hated Ole Miss when I was a kid). The flip side of this is that Lane and Sexton are edging the shite out of UF and probably going to milk an enormous paycheck with some eye-watering guarantees because Stricklin needs a win and the fanbase is completely enthralled with Lane Kiffin.

And he may win it all at UF.

Or he may be our Mario Cristobal.

That will keep y'all happy until year three when he keeps seeming to drop a head scratcher or two every year that blows the season. Let me tell you, some of those games Ole Miss has lost over the years did come down to the Joes, but a lot of them also came down to X and Os. Lane does some dumb shite pretty regularly, like that Ahab-like quest for 7 points the first time Ole Miss turned it over on downs on a 4th and Goal at the 1. It wasn't just not taking the easy points, it was shite like going away from Lacy after he got you down the field and, with one of the plays, doing some ridiculous razzle dazzle that failed. That's not completely out of the ordinary for Kiffin.

Kiffin seems to be a name in every college or NFL search that pops up, but the guy is still every bit as reckless as he was when he got blown out by Alabama his first season here. But everyone is so fixated on winning Lane that that the coaching bit seems to just not matter. Now it's more about one fanbase flexing on another.

I suspect we'll hear something before the Egg Bowl this time. I suspect in the next few days, the AD at Ole Miss is going to offer Kiffin as much money as anyone else is and tell him to make up his mind if he wants to coach this team in the playoffs. Stay or go, but choose so Ole Miss can do what it needs to do.

Because - and I actually respect Ole Miss for this - they are tired of essentially simping for someone who gets off on being the center of attention. They think the easiest way to maintain what Lane built is for Lane to continue to manage it, but they have enough self-respect to feel he isn't the only one who can and that they therefore have no say so in any of this. I think they are about of just breathing and letting it happen. And good for them.

Personally, my opinion of Lane has changed a lot the last six weeks. I don't think he's any more of a lock to win it all than some other folks out there, and my god, he fricking loves drama and being the center of attention. Yeah, Spurrier always was too, but Spurrier wasn't doing that for him. He was doing that for his team, to get in the other team's head before the game even started every week. Lane does this shite for Lane.

He'll be the coach at UF or Ole Miss next year I imagine, and I hope he is very successful at whichever it is. But I don't think he's either school's only path to be a regular playoff contender by any stretch. I do think he's a still a petulant little shite in a whole lot of ways, but good on him for learning to keep his dick in his pants at least.

I'll probably park over at the Oxford Intermediate. It used to be free, but I guess they figured out that they were giving the milk away and now charge $40.

It's a mile walk, but the walking path makes it an easy one, plus it's really easy to loop the grove in on it. Another upside is that it's usually easy to get out of after the game, plus, as of last night, you could still reserve spots it seemed. You do a Google form, and they email you back with the Venmo.

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For that money, you can probably get closer, but I hate hunting around off Jackson Ave for parking on game day just to save 1/2 a mile of walking.