Fair or unfair, Ole Miss has taken it on the chin this week. First, ex-Rebels coach Lane Kiffin—now at LSU—implicitly told Chris Smith of Vanity Fair Monday that Oxford, Miss.’s lack of diversity made it more difficult to recruit there. Anyone with a passing knowledge of the university’s history knows that probably carries some truth—but anyone with a passing knowledge of public relations knows that Kiffin, post-Nov. 2025, is a suboptimal bearer of that message. That news cycle had barely ended when Texas coach Steve Sarkisian took aim at Ole Miss’s academic standards in a Tuesday afternoon interview with Matt Hayes of USA Today . Amid an interview jammed with familiar riffs on college football fatalism, here’s what Sarkisian had to say. Steve Sarkisian cited Texas and Ole Miss as an example of “inequitable” academic standards “At Texas, we will only take 50% of a player’s academic credit hours [when they transfer],” Sarkisian told Hayes.…