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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David Duke went to LSU and ran the Klan from there, maybe he can help Kiffin with his recruiting.
Throw them enough $$$ and their parents will send em anywhere
Kiffen likes the chaos he creates. Whether he believes it or not is another story.
“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.
James “commander” Carville is another moonbat LSU crazy lunatic.
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?
People create chaos from what Kiffin says.
There, fixed it.
If people said that regarding Ole Miss recruiting, perfectly fine to share.
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?
Duke was the Republican gubernatorial candidate. Are you perchance from Cajun country instead of north Louisiana or the Florida parishes?
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.
Wasn't he the Grand Snap-Krackle Krispie of the Klan? Shame he didn't go to Rice
“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.
The only segregation they get is self imposed.
LSU should’ve never gotten rid of Ed Orgeron.
Lane Kiffin is spiritually bankrupt.
College men from LSU. Went in dumb, come out dumb too.
Also Serpent Head went there.
Duke was the Republican gubernatorial candidate.
Hence the bumper sticker ‘Vote For The Crook! It’s Important!”
Dick head.
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