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Lane Kiffin Explains His $91M LSU Move After Messy Ole Miss Exit

Complex·Bernadette Giacomazzo·21 days ago
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But Kiffin made clear he has little regret about how things played out. “Once you make those expectations, they forget the stadium was half empty when we got there,” he said to Vanity Fair . “Once you involve money, everything changes.” Kiffin also took direct aim at recruiting challenges tied to Ole Miss and the city of Oxford itself. Explaining why LSU appealed to him, he said top prospects sometimes hesitated when they learned where Ole Miss was located. “‘Hey, coach, we really like you. But my grandparents aren’t letting me move to Oxford, Mississippi,’” Kiffin recalled recruits telling him. He contrasted that with Baton Rouge, adding, “That doesn’t come up when you say Baton Rouge, Louisiana.” The LSU coach went even further while discussing the atmosphere around the Tigers’ program. “Parents were sitting here this weekend saying the campus’s diversity feels so great,” Kiffin said. “‘It feels like there’s no segregation.…

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