Lane Kiffin Makes Honest Admission About Money Amid Lsu Opening, Coaching Buzz

Another week, different coaching firing successful assemblage football.

On Sunday, LSU became nan latest programme to move connected from their caput coach, firing Brian Kelly aft 3 and a half seasons pinch nan team. Once again, Ole Miss caput coach Lane Kiffin is already being called a imaginable candidate for that caput coaching vacancy, for illustration he was past week aft Florida fired Billy Napier.

Kiffin's sanction quickly became linked to nan Florida vacancy due to his ties to Gainesville and nan program. LSU is now arguably nan apical caput coach opening successful nan country, pinch immoderate believing it's an opportunity he couldn't move down if offered.

Though Kiffin has not outright said he wouldn't time off Ole Miss for 1 of those programs, he does person greater ties to Oxford these days. His daughter, Landry, attends Ole Miss, and moreover helped convince her dada to enactment astatine nan programme successful 2023 arsenic he mulled nan chance to coach astatine Auburn. Whatever determination Kiffin does extremity up making this clip around, he says it will not beryllium because of money.

“I've ne'er based a determination disconnected of money and I ne'er will," Kiffin said Monday connected the Pat McAfee Show. "I’ve seen excessively galore examples successful life wherever money does not bargain happiness. I americium ne'er going to make a determination complete money, nor do I attraction astir it. [My agent] Jimmy Sexton gets really huffy erstwhile I opportunity that. ‘We gotta get this, we gotta get this.’ I’m like, ‘Jimmy, I don’t care.’ He goes, ‘I do!’”

Kiffin did stock that he addressed his players astir nan Florida rumors earlier their past week, but noted that it's not needfully astonishing to them because they are going done a akin experience. "Basically nan aforesaid point happens to them," Kiffin told McAfee. "They person a bully game, what happens? Our freshman receiver has a bully game, Saturday nighttime he's sewage 3 calls from places telling him, 'Hey, travel here. We'll springiness you much money.' That's what happens. They woody pinch this each nan time. ... I don't deliberation it's that large a woody to them."

As for nan firing of Kelly, Kiffin called nan news "very surprising," but views each this arsenic portion of nan ever-shifting assemblage shot landscape.

"It's nan assemblage world we're surviving in," Kiffin told reporters connected Monday. "... The players now are for illustration NFL players, really they're paid. I consciousness for illustration nan assemblage coaches now are for illustration NFL coaches, nan firings hap quicker. NFL coaches you spot each nan time, they get 1 aliases 2 years. In assemblage that doesn't hap because it's harder to build a roster and they springiness you much time. It's evidently not nan lawsuit now.

Kiffin continued, "I deliberation it's a merchandise of things that happened. [Mike] Elko doing specified a awesome occupation astatine A&M puts successful peoples' heads that these buyouts are ridiculous to pay, but I'm judge A&M is sitting location going, 'Okay, yeah, that was ridiculous to pay, but consciousness beautiful bully astir that correct now.' Anytime thing works, different group go, 'Well let's spell do that.'

While a number of coaches and programs person struggled to accommodate aliases find occurrence successful nan modern era of assemblage shot which resembles nan NFL much and more, Kiffin is 1 of nan coaches that has. Since Kiffin has been capable to move Ole Miss into a contender, he will people stay a apical action for schools looking for their adjacent coach, but nan prime will beryllium up to him.

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