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Just because they enter doesn't mean they are going, so keep that in mind.

I'm also not sure that the coaches haven't met with these guys. Just because everyone didn't have a high-profile Christmas Eve visit at their house with the HC and half the offensive coaching staff doesn't mean they are being ignored.

Some of these cats are also just 20-year-olds, and that's about as deep as it gets. A change of scenery is tempting when you're young for its own sake, especially if you might get a little more money out of it - or even if you find out that you aren't worth as much as you thought you were when you left.

I appreciate the lack of coach speak and easy confidence for sure. Dude is pretty comfortable commanding a presser without coming off like an a-hole. Zero pretension with CPG but not in a way that makes it seem like he isn't sure of himself. I dig it.

Hope that carries over to being successful overall as an HC. He's a hard guy not to like.

It's crazy Napier didn't do this in the first place.

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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.