Lane Kiffin being Lane Kiffin

by hobbs, San Diego, CA, Tuesday, May 12, 2026, 14:25 (16 days ago)

In explaining his decision to leave Ole Miss for LSU, Lane Kiffin seems willing to invoke Ole Miss's struggle to distance itself from symbols like the Confederate flag, Colonel Rebel, and the nickname "Ole Miss" itself.

When he was coaching there, Kiffin says, top recruits would tell him, “‘Hey, coach, we really like you. But my grandparents aren’t letting me move to Oxford, Mississippi.’ That doesn’t come up when you say Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Parents were sitting here this weekend saying the campus’s diversity feels so great: ‘It feels like there’s no segregation".

You can imagine how that went off in Oxford, MS. Of course Lane being Lane he had to walk his comments back after the predictable furor ensued.

https://sports.yahoo.com/article/lane-kiffin-apologizes-for-comments-that-diversity-imp...

Then, as if on cue, Sark weighed in on Ole Miss academics with "all you have to do is take basket weaving, and you can get an Ole Miss degree."