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Posted on 05/11/2026 4:34:17 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Football coach Lane Kiffin says some top recruits would tell him they were not interested in coming to Ole Miss while he was running the program there before his move to LSU.
Kiffin discussed the concerns in a recent article in Vanity Fair. "[They would say], 'Hey, coach, we really like you. But my grandparents aren't letting me move to Oxford, Mississippi,'" Kiffin said, according to the magazin Source Ue. "That doesn't come up when you say Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Parents were sitting here this weekend saying the campus' diversity feels so great: 'It feels like there's no segregation. And we want that for our kid because that's the real world.'"
According to the article, Kiffin clarified his remark one day later: "I just hope [my comment] comes across respectful to Ole Miss.... There are some things that I'm saying that are factual, they're not shots."
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Yes, but LSU might decide not to pay him what the contract says.
LSU is more ghetto than Mississippi. Got it.
And not a very good coach. One stat that was pointed out this offseason when Kiffin went to LSU and Matt Campbell went to Penn State was that Kiffin has 11 top 25 wins. Matt Campbell at Iowa State had 16.
I don’t know the reality or the perceptions of Oxford, Mississippi, but I suspect they are not one and the same.
LSU has major market advantages near New Orleans and corporate money versus Ole Miss.
The SEC is split now into “big market” teams and “small market” teams based on how many Fortune 500 companies are available in the areas.
Our youngest went to Ole Miss. We’ve been to Oxford many times and never felt unsafe.
Maybe Kiffen can hire James Carville as his special advisor on recruiting!
Yes, but if that's true, why did Kiffin have to play the race card?
Kiff still pulled Jaxon Dart from SC via the portal.
If he says he missed on some recruits, because THE PARENTS, said negative things about Mississippi, that’s fine. I’m thinking he missed on black recruits.
All of those who are offended may continue clutching your pearls.
As someone raised on the West Coast, and who lived on the East Coast, just letting you know, West Coast folks, look at all of the South East as the same. We don’t differentiate when we say....The South!
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