Here we go again.
LSU head football coach Lane Kiffin is continuing to throw gas into the fire that surrounds his exit from Ole Miss.
The most recent case is an interview that he did with Vanity Fair, with Kiffin pretty much saying that the alleged racism that’s apparently been taking place in the community of Oxford hurt his chances at recruiting while at the school. And he did this with a comparison to what’s going on at LSU now.
It’s not the most surprising thing in the world that Kiffin popped off at the mouth. After all, he takes jabs at opponents on social media all the time. But here in May? When we’re still more than 100 days away from the season kicking off?
Yeah, here in May. (RELATED: A Gender Reveal We Can Get Behind? — Orioles’ Anthony Nunez Unveils Surprise Mid-Game)
Only a number of weeks from Ole Miss quarterback Trinidad Chambliss doing a Vanity Fair interview, it was Kiffin’s turn.
Talking about his last days as the head coach of the Rebels, which saw him repeatedly attempt to talk athletic director Keith Carter into letting him coach Ole Miss through the College Football Playoff, it’s clear that Kiffin’s departure out of Oxford is still irking him.
In the Vanity Fair interview, Kiffin spoke about the apparent challenges that he experienced with recruiting while at Ole Miss, saying that they were a result of the racism that allegedly exists within Mississippi.
“‘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,” said Kiffin in the interview with Vanity Fair. “Parents were sitting here this weekend saying the campus’s diversity feels so great: ‘It feels like there’s no segregation. And we want that for our kid because that’s the real world.’”
In explaining his decision to leave Ole Miss for LSU, Lane Kiffin seems willing to invoke Ole Miss’s struggle to distance itself from symbols like the Confederate flag, Colonel Rebel, and the nickname “Ole Miss” itself.
When he was coaching there, Kiffin says, top recruits would…
— VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) May 11, 2026
Needless to say, Sept. 19 (when LSU and Ole Miss play next) will be a very fun day … holy moly.