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Posted on 12/1/25 at 5:23 am to the808bass
quote:Not exactly. Just quit pretending they aren’t paid employees.
So stop making the players be students at all? They’re just affiliated with the school? I’m not opposed to that idea.
Posted on 12/1/25 at 5:24 am to llfshoals
But the calendar is built around them registering for and attending classes (at least in some fashion).
Posted on 12/1/25 at 5:30 am to llfshoals
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I think you misunderstood.
Nick’s rant specifically stated nobody was thinking about the players. They weren’t, not that he should be allowed to coach (he fired Lane remember when he accepted the other job) but that changes need to be made to eliminate the problem.
Nick didn't fire Lane because he accepted the other job. He fired Lane because of how he handled himself after accepting the job. Kirby accepted a job at a place that was a far greater threat to Nick and he wasn't fired.
Nick said he should be allowed to coach the team. That just wasn't gonna happen. Lane mentioned "guard rails" and I assume with Nick saying the "calendar" he's thinking this is about recruiting and Lane trying to recruit to LSU while coaching at Ole Miss. That's not what this is all about. The mere appearance of it would be an embarrassment to Ole Miss.
Posted on 12/1/25 at 5:30 am to koreandawg
Once he threatened to take the entire offensive staff, raid our roster and recruits unless he was allowed to coach the playoffs..we had no choice..he should have been more gracious and grateful for the time he has had here..it's a two way street he did great things here, he was given everything he needed to succeed. He flirted with Auburn last year and cost us games...I'm not mad at him taking LSU, it's a top 5 job..Florida and Auburn would be different story , but it's the sense of entitlement and pettiness that pisses me and everyone else off
Posted on 12/1/25 at 5:31 am to the808bass
quote:Not really no it isn't.
But the calendar is built around them registering for and attending classes (at least in some fashion).
When is high school graduation? So why is it that we have December portal/registration window?
Early enrollment and spring training are the only reasons I really can think of. Wanna transfer in the off season? Go for it. Want to early enroll? Nobody says you can’t but spring training is out.
Posted on 12/1/25 at 5:33 am to Tropicofcapricorn
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Once he threatened to take the entire offensive staff, raid our roster and recruits unless he was allowed to coach the playoffs..we had no choice..he should have been more gracious and grateful for the time he has had here..it's a two way street he did great things here, he was given everything he needed to succeed. He flirted with Auburn last year and cost us games...I'm not mad at him taking LSU, it's a top 5 job..Florida and Auburn would be different story , but it's the sense of entitlement and pettiness that pisses me and everyone else off
He did that because he was already told it couldn't happen.
And that's where he really crossed a line between being a guy who was gonna look bad for leaving his team (but maybe not really a bad person) and a complete a-hole.
Posted on 12/1/25 at 5:34 am to boweswi05
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Lane wanted to finish what he started this year with these players.
Are you serious? He obviously didn't but its as good sound bite for the ignorant.
Posted on 12/1/25 at 5:34 am to boweswi05
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Lane wanted to finish what he started this year with these players. Ole Miss would not allow that so he took the LSU job. Why is everyone hating on Lane?
Because when you’ve built a team that makes the playoffs, you see it through for them. You take another job at another time. You know- be unselfish.
Posted on 12/1/25 at 5:34 am to koreandawg
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like saying your wife should allow you to cheat with a ho she don't know rather than that ho she can't stand that she works with.
You had a convincing argument till here. This whole “cheating on your wife” comparison is ghey and stupid. This is a business decision period. People wanted to make the sport into a bidding war with NIL and no commitment with the portal. It’s all about money and who can buy a championship now. Nothing he did was illegal.
People saying he is “being selfish” need to understand until the system is fixed with the portal calendar, caps on NIL, and other issues coaches will act just like the players and position themselves the best and quickest way to make money and win a championship. He was the top coach on the market and he did what he felt was best for him and his career. He might be right or might be wrong but it was his decision.
Posted on 12/1/25 at 5:35 am to koreandawg
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That the reason Ole Miss could not allow it is because LSU and Ole Miss are bitter rivals. Again false. Does anyone in their right mind think if Lincoln Riley had OU in the playoff in 2021 and had taken the USC job before the playoff OU would've allowed him to coach the playoff?
Non sequitur. Those things are unrelated.
Posted on 12/1/25 at 5:37 am to koreandawg
quote:It would be, and the calendar is the reason for it. Again you misunderstood what he was saying.
The mere appearance of it would be an embarrassment to Ole Miss.
A coach SHOULD be able to finish what they start and changing the calendar to eliminate this shite would do so. That was his point, not to enable divided loyalties.
quote:True, but you have to admit an assistant coach is a very different thing. We also didn’t have the portal then which also changes the equation.
He fired Lane because of how he handled himself after accepting the job. Kirby accepted a job at a place that was a far greater threat to Nick and he wasn't fired.
Posted on 12/1/25 at 5:38 am to AlterDWI
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Nobody seriously thinks it was viable for Lane to be hanging out in Oxford for the next three weeks as LSU's new coach. LSU fans are just trying to portray it that way becuase they think it will make it seem like Ole Miss screwed Lane over instead of the other way around.
We are pointing out a fact: Lane wanted and offered to finish the season. OM said no. It may have been an obvious decision, but the idea that Lane "abandoned" Ole miss is a direct lie.
Sometimes better schools come calling. Timing sucked because of NCAA rules, but this was the only way it could play out.
Posted on 12/1/25 at 5:38 am to Barbellthor
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That the reason Ole Miss could not allow it is because LSU and Ole Miss are bitter rivals. Again false. Does anyone in their right mind think if Lincoln Riley had OU in the playoff in 2021 and had taken the USC job before the playoff OU would've allowed him to coach the playoff?
Non sequitur. Those things are unrelated.
Not really sure what you are saying is unrelated.
But either way you are made to look like a cuck and a good AD doesn't let his school look like a cuck.
Posted on 12/1/25 at 5:49 am to OccamsStubble
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Because when you’ve built a team that makes the playoffs, you see it through for them. You take another job at another time. You know- be unselfish.
So you are asking him to sacrifice millions of dollars, a job at a place with more history and resources, and to hold higher “ethical standards than the system in place that will just as easily allow players to “sit out” during the playoffs when they declare for the draft? The system is 100% broken but I can’t fault a person for playing the game by the rules given to him.
Posted on 12/1/25 at 5:53 am to llfshoals
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It would be, and the calendar is the reason for it. Again you misunderstood what he was saying.
There is no calendar for hiring and firing coaches. There's dates for portal entries and signing recruits.
The calendar has to be recruiting. You can hire or fire a coach at any time you want to.
What does calendar have to do with the look of Lane taking the LSU job and coaching Ole Miss beyond recruiting. You are correct. I have no idea what you mean.
This post was edited on 12/1/25 at 5:54 am
Posted on 12/1/25 at 5:54 am to koreandawg
No way I let a lame duck coach, coach my team.
Posted on 12/1/25 at 5:58 am to MrLahey
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who cares
Not me. Thanks.
Posted on 12/1/25 at 6:00 am to koreandawg
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Lane is playing a victim here. His final statement says the kids wanted it. He wanted it. Ole Miss was protected. But still they wouldn't let me do it
He wanted to coach the playoffs. Ole Miss is the one that told him no.
What more was Lane supposed to do after that?
Posted on 12/1/25 at 6:04 am to koreandawg
quote:Which both can and this evidences clearly needs doing.
There is no calendar for hiring and firing coaches. There's dates for portal entries and signing recruits.
quote:Its difficult to get things across sometimes in print. Not my fault or yours, we could have probably sorted through it before we got off the 2nd green in person.
What does calendar have to do with the look of Lane taking the LSU job and coaching Ole Miss beyond recruiting. You are correct. I have no idea what you mean.
The way I see it the whole calendar is set up around spring training. Get early enrollment on campus or transfers there for spring practice.
Just kill that, easy peasy. Want to transfer, change the window to Feb-April and go ahead. Want to enroll and start classes at a school, nobody is stopping you. But no scholarship before summer classes or spring training.
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