Lane Kiffin reiterates he didn’t mean to offend Ole Miss fans for comments about Oxford
By Ethan Stone
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Lane Kiffin isn’t backing away from his comments to Vanity Fair this week, where he insisted that recruiting at Ole Miss came with a disadvantage due to racial symbols and recruits (and parents of recruits) not wanting to move to Mississippi.
However, Kiffin did apologize to Ole Miss fans on Tuesday, insisting that he did not mean to offed “anybody at Ole Miss or in Mississippi.”
“In a four-hour interview, I was asked a lot of questions on a lot of things, and Ole Miss has been wonderful to me and my family,” Kiffin told On3 Sports’ Wilson Alexander. “I was asked questions about the differences in recruiting, and I said a narrative that we battled there from some out-of-state Black parents and grandparents was not wanting their kid to move to Mississippi. That’s a narrative that coaches have been fighting forever. It wasn’t calculated by bringing it up.”
Kiffin was originally addressing the differences he faces in recruiting at LSU as well as his thought-process behind his move from Ole Miss to LSU. In addition to NIL and historical relevance, Kiffin brought up that Ole Miss’s refusal to move away from Confederate symbols and even name “Ole Miss Rebels” itself attributed to a significant advantage at LSU.
Kiffin and the Tigers travel to face Ole Miss in Week 3 on September 19.
Ethan Stone is a Tennessee graduate and loves all things college football and college basketball. Firm believer in fouling while up 3.
