Lane Kiffin has spoken out about the alleged challenges he faced recruiting as head coach of the Ole Miss football program, months after his unceremonious exit from the school for LSU . In an interview with Vanity Fair contributing editor Chris Smith , Kiffin appeared to imply that racist imagery around Oxford, Mississippi, where the school was located, and antiquated university traditions prevented him from landing an unspecified number of recruits. “Kiffin also seems willing to indirectly invoke Ole Miss’s struggle to distance itself from symbols like the Confederate flag, Colonel Rebel, and the nickname ‘Ole Miss’ itself,” Smith wrote. Kiffin cites conversations with recruits who told him, “Hey, coach, we really like you. But my grandparents aren’t letting me move to Oxford, Mississippi.” “That doesn’t come up when you say Baton Rouge, Louisiana,” he continued. “Parents were sitting here this weekend saying the campus’s diversity feels so great: ‘It feels like there’s no segregation.…