For LSU‘s Lane Kiffin, things are getting ugly fast. Kiffin has rarely ever shied away from being outspoken, but this time, this very trait might end up landing him in serious SEC penalty.
While speaking with Vanity Fair, Kiffin spoke about differences in recruiting at LSU and Ole Miss. Being unrestrained as usual with his words, Kiffin pointed how he doesn’t have to deal with uncomfortable living-room conversations with Black families that used to stall out his recruiting classes in Oxford.
Veiled shot at his former program or not, Kiffin is at the center of all the heat, and the situation is getting so dire that the LSU head coach stepped back in with media to provide a defense/ justification for his remarks.
“People don’t read the actual words I used in the article,” Kiffin said to Matt Hayes ofUSA Today. “I said, ‘A parent said.’ That’s not me saying it as my opinion.”
College football twitter is outraged and the shockwaves have reached the SEC. Justification alone might not mitigate the potential penalty that is coming his way. An apology might, but that is a discussion for later.
Lane Kiffin’s Comments on Recruiting at Ole Miss
GettyLSU Tigers head coach Lane Kiffin defends his controversial comments on Ole Miss as SEC punishment report surfaces.
“We really like you, but my grandparents aren’t letting me move to Oxford, Mississippi,” were Kiffin’s exact words, saying that’s what the recruits told him.
“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’,” he added.
Kiffin also added a small “I just hope this comes across respectful to Ole Miss. There are some things that I’m saying that are factual, they’re not shots,” to avoid any situation like present times, but clearly, it was of no use.
Steve Sarkisian Might Also Be in Trouble
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On3’s Chris Low reported how Kiffin and Texas’s Steve Sarkisian, might face some serious penalties or punishments from the SEC. Low, an Ole Miss insider, shared the SEC Bylaws 10.2.3 and 10.5.2 that Kiffin’s and Sarkisian’s comments violate.
Sarkisian somehow made his way into this mess, adding more fuel to the fire with his own set of controversial comments on academics.
“It’s like At Texas, we will only take 50% of a player’s academic credit hours,” Sarkisian told USA TODAY Sports. “You may be a semester from graduating, but you’re going all the way back to 50% if you play here and want a degree. But at Ole Miss, they can take you. All you have to do is take basket weaving, and you can get an Ole Miss degreewe’ve forgotten about academics, yet less than 5% of these guys will play in the NFL,” Sarkisian said.
Lane Kiffin Justifies Ole Miss Remarks With SEC Disciplinary Action Pending