There not being an Ole Miss player in the final 3 Heisman (Chambliss or Lacy) is directly Lane Kiffin’s fault. Dude did nothing to promote his guys all year.
Something about telling the media that “you have a lot of praying to do before making a decision” and then immediately threatening the livelihoods of your staff around 36 hours does not sit right with me. Intrinsically evil.
Rumor is the reason the meeting took so long yesterday is that he demanded to coach the playoffs or he would take every assistant right now because he would say come now or there is no offer --- Total non Movie Villain behavior
Kiffin supposedly has given offensive coaches an ultimatum: come with me today or there won’t be a spot for you. The injury he’s inflicting on @OleMissFB has gone from selfishly incidental to intentional.
The danger is this: he’s delayed his decision so long that putting together another staff is going to be much more difficult than it needed to be. If assistants leave today, could it increase the chances of player defections pre-playoffs? Maybe. I’ve been less worried about that with Kiffin, himself, but some of these young guys will be loyal to their position coaches.
He’s going to play victim along the way and his PR firm (ESPN) will help, but this guy is every bit the petulant brat he was 20 years ago. And no, this is not @KeithCarterOM’s fault. Kiffin feels so damn entitled that he thought he could quit, sign on with our conference rival and then continuing dictating the operation of @OleMissFB for the next month plus.
The guy, fully knowing he was leaving, was tweeting about Ole Miss in the SEC Championship yesterday through his dog. He cares about one thing. Himself. It’s time to rally around the team and the university.
I won't pretend that it's an easy decision for Lane Kiffin. When he says he's struggled with it, I believe him. The part of the process driving me up the wall is the amount of people pretending that Kiffin is a victim in this situation. He's currently suffering the consequences of his own actions, nobody else's. Every year coaches are presented with opportunities to leave or stay. Nobody else has dragged it out this way. Nobody else has considered leaving his team in the middle of a playoff run. It's a unique situation, not a fundamental flaw in the sport.
The timing may be unfortunate but if Lane Kiffin takes the LSU job there is absolutely no way Ole Miss should let him continue to coach their team. This isn’t some G5 job.
Promote a coordinator and go try to win with the people who want to be there.