re: To the haters: Kiffin is happy at Ole Miss.

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Pine box baw

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Which is the exact opposite of the situation in Oxford right now. Tuberville did not want to go to Auburn but our AD and Chancellor basically refused to support him in any way.

Tuberville:

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The way Tuberville remembers it, he was committed to Ole Miss at the time he made those comments but a meeting with the school’s chancellor, Robert Khayat, quickly changed all that, which led to his eventual departure to SEC West rival Auburn.

“(Khayat) said, ‘Tub, I see they are courting you at different schools.’ I said, ‘Chancellor, I’ll be honest with you, our coaches don’t want to go. They want to work here,” Tuberville said. “But, I’m here on behalf of them. We can’t keep doing it with smoke and mirrors. We need some help.

“You have a billion-dollar fund-raiser going for academics. If you give us $50 million of that one billion for athletics, I’ll go out and help you raise that billion, not just the $50 million to give us some help.’”

They could not reach an agreement and that left Tuberville and his staff to reevaluate their options, according to the coach. It wasn’t long before they were off to The Plains.

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