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re: Why didn’t Ole Miss let Lane coach playoffs?

Posted on 12/31/25 at 1:56 pm to
Posted by borotiger
Murfreesboro Tennessee
Member since Jan 2004
13934 posts
Posted on 12/31/25 at 1:56 pm to
It's rare for a coach leaving for another in-conference school to be allowed to continue coaching the team he left.
Posted by rebeloke
Member since Nov 2012
17068 posts
Posted on 12/31/25 at 1:57 pm to
Are you slow?
Posted by GruntbyAssociation
Member since Jul 2013
8674 posts
Posted on 12/31/25 at 1:57 pm to
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They claim that they have wanted Golding all along.


Horsecrap
Posted by Quicksilver
Poker Room
Member since Jan 2013
12434 posts
Posted on 12/31/25 at 1:57 pm to
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Their AD fricked that situation up about as worse as it could have been



An opinion you will only find on LSU message boards. Everyone else has said it was the right move.
Posted by theyatoak
Member since Dec 2024
162 posts
Posted on 12/31/25 at 2:02 pm to
Yes, very slow. I can see angles on why one would and would not continue to let him coach. It seems you know the reason. What is it?
Posted by ibldprplgld
Member since Feb 2008
27438 posts
Posted on 12/31/25 at 2:02 pm to
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An opinion you will only find on LSU message boards. Everyone else has said it was the right move.


Not true.

Saban, Herbie, McAfee, and Howard on Gameday all said Ole Miss should’ve allowed Kiffin to coach.

It’s one near as one sided as yall act.
Posted by FriedCatfish38
Member since Jul 2019
18 posts
Posted on 12/31/25 at 2:10 pm to
“From a leadership standpoint, we felt like it was best to not have someone in that position leading our team if they were not going to be our coach the following year,” Banks said. “We felt like anybody that was leaving as a head coach couldn’t be a true leader in that moment. What we needed was somebody that was concrete, somebody who was going to be there and wasn’t already somewhere else in their mind.

“It wasn’t easy for anybody, but from a leadership standpoint, we felt like that’s what was best for us. You start from the top down in any hierarchy, and if the top’s not there, he can’t lead"

Tyler Banks #38 for the Rebels. The #38 means something special at Ole Miss. The leaders of the team wanted Kiffin gone
Posted by ukraine_rebel
North Mississippi
Member since Oct 2012
3741 posts
Posted on 12/31/25 at 2:11 pm to
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Most of the team wanted him to. Their AD felt slighted and acted like a prick.


And yet…

quote:

Linebacker Tyler Banks, who, like Sanders, is also a member of the team’s leadership council, said it was made perfectly clear to Kiffin by the leadership council that if he were indeed going to take the LSU job that he needed to leave the football complex and that the players did not want him to stay on as coach in the playoff.


Forgive me if I don’t believe you heifer.
Posted by jchamil
Member since Nov 2009
18917 posts
Posted on 12/31/25 at 2:18 pm to
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Saban, Herbie, McAfee, and Howard on Gameday all said Ole Miss should’ve allowed Kiffin to coach.


He can say whatever he wants now, but this is the same Nick Saban who fired Kiffin in this exact same scenario because he wasn't professional enough to handle two jobs. Throw in now that the second job would be with an archrival, and it's absurd to think he would behave professionally.
Posted by theyatoak
Member since Dec 2024
162 posts
Posted on 12/31/25 at 2:19 pm to
Thanks, it makes sense. I’m trying to find an article containing this quote but can’t find it.

Where does this quote come from?
Posted by FriedCatfish38
Member since Jul 2019
18 posts
Posted on 12/31/25 at 2:22 pm to
An on3 Chris Low article. Kiffin has lied and lied about the players wanting him to stay. But, the media usually just listens to Kiffin and not the actual players that were in the room
Posted by geauxbrown
Louisiana
Member since Oct 2006
25768 posts
Posted on 12/31/25 at 2:28 pm to
Because at the end of the day OM was more concerned about winning the PR war versus a National Championship.
Posted by geauxbrown
Louisiana
Member since Oct 2006
25768 posts
Posted on 12/31/25 at 2:29 pm to
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Kiffin lied about the players wanting him to coach.


Are there actual quotes or interviews with the OM players saying they didn’t want Kiffin coaching?

How many players didn’t want him coaching?

So, they took a players vote?
Posted by SidewalkTiger
Midwest, USA
Member since Dec 2019
67322 posts
Posted on 12/31/25 at 2:32 pm to
Pride.
Posted by ThePoo
Work
Member since Jan 2007
61364 posts
Posted on 12/31/25 at 2:32 pm to
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An opinion you will only find on LSU message boards. Everyone else has said it was the right move.
your AD fricking up has little to do with his decision on whether or not to let Kiffin coach the playoffs and more to do with the amount of leash he gave Kiffin to string yall along for so long
Posted by rebsfan10
Member since Dec 2013
2132 posts
Posted on 12/31/25 at 2:46 pm to
I think there are coaches you could trust to be focused on winning a national championship and handling things the right way. Lane is not one of those coaches. Pete, Keith Carter etc.. said from day one they had no doubt they could trust Weiss to be focused and do things the right way. Saban admitted he let Kirby stay on and coach even tho he had accepted the uga job but he didn't let kiffin. Reason being Kirby was mature enough and respectful enough to do what he had to do for bama and uga and be on the up and up about everything. There is zero chance we could believe lane would be focused on game planning for uga instead of texting with known racist Ryan Clarke about getting him on first take or honestly trying to lose so he can get to Baton Rouge sooner and show a Lacy or Chambliss they can't win at ole Miss.

Lane has proven Keith Carter to be 100% correct in knowing lane could not be trusted
Posted by SECCaptain
Member since Jun 2025
1480 posts
Posted on 12/31/25 at 2:48 pm to
The logic behind not letting him is he’d be in a position to influence players to follow him to LSU, however letting the assistants coach does the same shite
Posted by FriedCatfish38
Member since Jul 2019
18 posts
Posted on 12/31/25 at 2:57 pm to
The leadership counsel voted. Tyler Banks "sternly told him to leave the building." This has been reported by Chris Low of on3, Neal Mcready of 247 and tweeted by Rebels Brycen Sanders, Sunterine Perkins and others on the leadership council
Posted by BigNastyTiger417
Member since Nov 2021
5205 posts
Posted on 12/31/25 at 3:00 pm to
Wrong. The players wanted him to finish this season. The A.D. did not.
Posted by geauxbrown
Louisiana
Member since Oct 2006
25768 posts
Posted on 12/31/25 at 3:19 pm to
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Sternly told him to leave the building.


Sure, Jan
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