LSU football’s Lane Kiffin apologizes to Ole Miss for promoting controversial recruiting ‘narrative’
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LSU football head coach Lane Kiffin spoke on leaving Ole Miss in a recent article with Vanity Fair that caught the sports world by storm, with one of the reasons being that the school has trouble distancing itself from Civil War imagery. With Kiffin in his first offseason with the LSU football program, the head coach would issue an apology to the school he used to work at.
Specifically, the article would claim that Kiffin “also seems willing to indirectly invoke Ole Miss’s struggle to distance itself from symbols like the Confederate flag, Colonel Rebel, and the nickname ‘Ole Miss’ itself.” Kiffin would apologize if the sentiments offended anybody, though he doesn’t take back what he said, since the narrative of diversity is prevalent.
“…Ole Miss has been wonderful to me and to my family. I was asked questions about the differences in recruiting, and I said a narrative that we battled there from some out-of-state Black parents and grandparents was not wanting their kid to move to Mississippi. That’s a narrative that coaches have been fighting forever. It wasn’t calculated by bringing it up,” Kiffin said, via Pete Nakos.
Lane Kiffin’s original comments on Ole Miss football, LSU football
Looking at what Kiffin said in the Vanity Fair piece, it was on the basis of recruiting, as he would recall situations where the location of Ole Miss compared to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was a dealbreaker. He would even add in the article that he ‘hopes’ the comment “comes across respectful” to the school.
“‘Hey, coach, we really like you. But my grandparents aren’t letting me move to Oxford, Mississippi.’ That doesn’t come up when you say Baton Rouge, Louisiana,” Kiffin said. “Parents were sitting here this weekend saying the campus’s diversity feels so great: ‘It feels like there’s no segregation. And we want that for our kid because that’s the real world.’”
“There are some things that I’m saying that are factual, they’re not shots,” Kiffin continued.
At any rate, Lane Kiffin starts his next journey as a head coach in college football with the LSU Tigers this season.
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