OLE MISS
Report: Ole Miss becoming 'major player' for big-name head coaching candidate
Three SEC programs — Mizzou, Arkansas and Ole Miss — currently have openings at the head coach position.
The Razorbacks have been linked to Florida Atlantic coach Lane Kiffin recently, but nothing has become official. Now, it appears Kiffin could be moving on.
Per a report from FootballScoop.com on Thursday morning, Ole Miss is now getting involved in the Kiffin sweepstakes:
The whisper is that Ole Miss is now a major player in the pursuit of Lane Kiffin’s services.
Kiffin’s Owls play UAB Saturday at 1:30 ET for the Conference USA title. “Then things get interesting,” one source told FootballScoop.
Will Kiffin end up in the SEC? If so, will it be at Arkansas or Ole Miss (or Mizzou)?
This weekend will indeed be an interesting one.
If Kiffin ends up in the SEC it won’t be in the SEC West. Even he knows the SEC East is the easier route to the SEC Title. However, he likes being close to the water. More likely looking to leverage some better facilities and pay.
Frankly I believe that Lane Kiffin will fit in nicely in Oxford. It is a much better atmosphere in which to coach…than let’s say Arkansas of Mizzou. He has matured as a person and a Head Coach. He has learned a lot from his Coaching stops at Tennessee, Southern Cal, Oakland Raiders, and especially at Alabama…and he is now ready for the big-time of college coaching. His personality fits in with what I’ve always felt in Oxford…kinda quirky, fun atmosphere for football…Hotty Toddy ! I hope they sign him.
LOL…then you aren’t seeing his tweets. He hasn’t changed that much. Oh yeah quirky fits in with uptight folks who dress up for football games…NOT. He lives in Boca which is more laid back and upscale than TSUN. Probably the one job he would jump ship for isn’t even in the SEC and its not outside of the state of Florida. And he can wait and build his cred at FAU until the Miami job opens up in 2-3 years.
Kiffin isn’t waiting 2-3 years to move on from fau. If you think differently your delusional. He’s going somewhere this off season, he’s going back to big boy football in the sec or acc. be it Arkansas or ole miss or if by some sort of crazy chance FSU.
Alabama fires him just before the NC game. Saying that guy has matured is just funny.
That was a couple years ago. Just because he didn’t agree with everything Satan wanted to do doesn’t mean he’s didn’t mature. Your opinion is stale as are you old man. You really need to quit posting so your grandchildren wont get ptsd from your ignorance.
Keep trying child. My four year old grandson is more mature than you. He has better football takes too.
Saban didn’t fire him “because he didn’t agree with everything Satan wanted to do doesn’t mean he’s didn’t mature”. He fired him because he was visiting Alabama recruits and actively trying to get them to flip to FAU. He has behaved the same at FAU as he did at Oakland, Tennessee, USC and Alabama. You just don’t hear as much about his shenanigans at FAU because it is a low profile position. His mouth will have the NCAA camped out in Oxford again.
You sound like Joe Biden. What’s next? Are you gonna challenge LSUMC to a push up contest?
LSUABC, there you go with the name calling again.
Amaze everyone with more lies.
Isn’t that the way you do it?
Bama fired him because he had already quit. That was Saban’s immaturity. He lasted with Saban for 3 years. You have to be pretty mature to do that.
Saban fired him because he was actively trying to get Alabama recruits to flip to FAU. The families of the recruits told Saban what was going on and Saban cut him off.
Great, Kiffin is now a good coach because he’s “matured”
I bet you have shiplap and Joanna Gaines crap all over you house, don’t you? The way you think Oxford is “kinda quirky” makes my head hurt.
Meh. We could do worse (and probably will in the end)
I wonder if Kiffen would come in with trash talking aimed at Bama, LSU and MSU to get the fanbase fired up.
I would if I were him….makes for some fun in the SEC again…
^^^ this.
I want him just for the sheer fun of it and giving us a jolt that we need badly.
Heck, if he does something stupid and makes us look bad, who cares. We’ve done that plenty in the past 5 years
We will swap. If y’all get Lane, we’ll swap basketball and football coaches with y’all. Cut Sexton out of the deal. Deal?
He was pretty good at Bama. Great offensive mind. Hell, he might be the first Saban disciple to take him down. Next year with that 4.2 40 yard dude. Be fun to have his ass in the SEC west.
I wouldnt really call Kiffin a Saban deciple. Saban didnt teach him the ropes of big time college football before giving his blessings for his head coaching job. Kiffin had already been a head coach at two big programs. He was at Alabama because he needed a job and Saban needed an OC. It was good for both of them at the time
It would still count. He was OC for a good bit. I don’t think disciple means it’s necessarily your first coordinator job does it?
FAU will ante up and keep him. The money and lifestyle is there. He is doing great there. Can’t see him going to backwaters of Sec to face relentless criticism, overbearing boosters, anxious Ads looking over shoulder. He has it made.
Deciple:
A follower of a teacher, leader or philosopher…
Pretty sure Kiffin wasnt a very good follower. Did his own thing. Saban liked kiffins production but not his ability to follow directions
Idiot:
Someone who cannot spell the word they’re defining online. It’s “DISCIPLE.”
^^^Nice dude. You win. Love it.
I get that Kiffen is a good OC but he has failed spectacularly at every HC position he has had. Raiders, Tenn, USC…. I don’t get the infatuation.
Exactly, he’s a big name because of where he’s coached. But resume wise, there’s really nothing there to think he would be a big improvement as far as wins/losses. Losing to ranked teams and to .500 or above teams (as his record suggests) like he does isn’t going to help Mizzou, Ole Miss or anyone else compete in the SEC more than they already are. Let’s say for arguments sake he does knock it out of the park for 2 years, and does it with no drama, he’s just going to jump ship and take the $5M gig at Oregon, or Miami or Texas or whoever big school with money takes notice and leave Mizzou or Ole Miss or Arkansas scrambling for a new coach and scrambling to keep recruits from following him ect, ect. I mean that can happen with any coach who wins, but Kiffin has especially showed that he will not hesitate to move on the bigger$$ and better things. But regardless, I’m like you, I’m not convinced he can even win big at a major school.
I know exactly what Lane Kiffin is feeling right now. Many years ago, three of the hottest babes in town were all demanding I become their boyfriend and move in with them. I had a nice, secure, sweet girlfriend, but these other three were Maxim-quality hotties.
Just when I thought I had a way of becoming the boyfriend to all three of these perfect Size 2 supermodels with beauty that made men weak in the knees, it all came to a crushing halt–the blasted alarm clock went off.
I wonder if these three job openings are going to be real or just a dream for Lane. Does he have the ability to be responsible if he’s handed the keys to an SEC kingdom?
umh! I’d say Mizzou, Arkansas, and Ole Miss are more akin to the okay chicks at the bar that you latch onto so that you’re not facing the dreaded 2AM hour leftovers (the go ugly early concept).
Maxim quality hotties??? LOL
Media print stories like “sources say” and we’re to believe they have a scoop? I can assure you no one has a scoop and most likely super agent Sexton is feeding BS to get everyone he represents raises.
Congrats to Ole Miss for landing ole Joey Freshwater. I think he’ll be a great fit.
Jomo why the name calling for the guy giving his opinion dude ? Lighten up and it was a fair point …it had to be pretty significant to get fired at that point ..cause Bama needed him !
Kiffin and Mike Leach as coaches in the SEC would have been press conference heaven. With what he did with Bama’s offense and at FAU makes this a good coaching hire for Ole Miss. Can he recruit well enough to compete with A&M, LSU, Bama, and Auburn?