re: Serious question: What grade would you give Lane Kiffin for the job he did at Ole Miss?

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My thing about that '24 team: UK loss was unacceptable. Awful game

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He bungled the season by refusing to play Ulysses Bentley.

The Kentucky game was especially egregious. Quite a tale on that one.

4 months ago, no one outside of Oxford thought he was an elite coach. Most wouldn't have even called him great. People just thought he was entertaining and most had come around to thinking he was likeable.

Then 2 high profile jobs came open and not a single other decent coach in the country was shitty enough to entertain leaving their teams so the media had to spin up this narrative of him being a game changer for someone so they'd have something BIG to talk about.

He's a great coach. He had great chemistry at Ole Miss that he probably won't replicate again. Sucks for us. Sucks worse for him. Sucks most for LSU.

I give Lane an A

I'd give him an A+ had he found a way to go 10-2 and made the playoff in 2024 but unfortunately that didn't happen.

He did an outstanding job.