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Kiffin: LSU's 'Diversity' a Recruitment Advantage vs. Ole Miss
ESPN ^ | May 11, 2026

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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TOPICS: Local News; Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: lanekiffin; mississippi; olemiss

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1 posted on 05/11/2026 4:34:17 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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David Duke went to LSU and ran the Klan from there, maybe he can help Kiffin with his recruiting.


2 posted on 05/11/2026 4:37:56 PM PDT by PAR35
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Throw them enough $$$ and their parents will send em anywhere


3 posted on 05/11/2026 4:39:32 PM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: nickcarraway

Kiffen likes the chaos he creates. Whether he believes it or not is another story.


4 posted on 05/11/2026 4:40:36 PM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: PAR35

“David Duke went to LSU and ran the Klan from there, maybe he can help Kiffin with his recruiting.”

The Klan has not been detectable in Louisiana for about a hundred years, at least.

From what I hear, David Duke’s Klan was composed of an organization of one person.


5 posted on 05/11/2026 4:42:29 PM PDT by odawg
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To: PAR35

James “commander” Carville is another moonbat LSU crazy lunatic.


6 posted on 05/11/2026 4:42:51 PM PDT by pacificus
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To: nickcarraway
The population of Baton Rouge, home to LSU's campus, is 52% Black and 34% white, according to 2024 census data. Oxford, home to Ole Miss, is 66% white and 26% Black.

Unless Jim Crow is doin' his thing in Oxford, that is a distinction without a difference--and who are the other 8% in Oxford anyway, Hmong refugees?

7 posted on 05/11/2026 4:43:38 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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People create chaos from what Kiffin says.

There, fixed it.

If people said that regarding Ole Miss recruiting, perfectly fine to share.


8 posted on 05/11/2026 4:45:30 PM PDT by pacificus
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I do believe you’re right. Too many others out there that do things the same way. Al Davis did things that way so what happens when he hires Kiffin?


9 posted on 05/11/2026 4:46:37 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: odawg

Duke was the Republican gubernatorial candidate. Are you perchance from Cajun country instead of north Louisiana or the Florida parishes?


10 posted on 05/11/2026 4:49:24 PM PDT by PAR35
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My wife and I both went to LSU. We see Carville on Homecoming Weekend just about every year.
He’s actually a good guy. My wife and his wife are friends from way back.


11 posted on 05/11/2026 5:03:34 PM PDT by ComputerGuy (YMMV)
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David Duke went to LSU and ran the Klan from there

Wasn't he the Grand Snap-Krackle Krispie of the Klan? Shame he didn't go to Rice

12 posted on 05/11/2026 5:04:31 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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“The population of Baton Rouge, home to LSU’s campus, is 52% Black and 34% white, according to 2024 census data.”

And it’s such a diverse and welcoming community that there are large swaths of Baton Rouge where a sane White person wouldn’t be caught dead after sundown (often before), lest they be found dead. Hypocrites on steroids.


13 posted on 05/11/2026 5:07:12 PM PDT by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: nickcarraway

The only segregation they get is self imposed.


14 posted on 05/11/2026 5:15:04 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo )
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LSU should’ve never gotten rid of Ed Orgeron.

Lane Kiffin is spiritually bankrupt.


15 posted on 05/11/2026 5:16:17 PM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: PAR35

College men from LSU. Went in dumb, come out dumb too.


16 posted on 05/11/2026 5:20:38 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: chajin

Also Serpent Head went there.


17 posted on 05/11/2026 5:21:01 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: PAR35

Duke was the Republican gubernatorial candidate.


Hence the bumper sticker ‘Vote For The Crook! It’s Important!”


18 posted on 05/11/2026 5:21:57 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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And then there js Sandra Smith!😀


19 posted on 05/11/2026 5:23:15 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo )
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Dick head.


20 posted on 05/11/2026 5:24:45 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo )
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