LSU Hires Kiffin Amidst Ole Miss CFP Success and Texas Coach Criticism
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One reason Kiffin was drawn to LSU was that the school and its allies could pump what he calls “adult money” into the football program. For his first season leading the Tigers, the roster will reportedly cost nearly $40 million (Kiffin would not comment), but he’s also wielding softer weapons. He’s turned up in videos with two of LSU’s bombshell female athletes, Olivia Dunne and Florentine Dekkers. He isn’t afraid to raise a more inflammatory angle, either. At Ole Miss, Kiffin says, top recruits would tell him, “’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. Parents were sitting here this weekend saying the campus’s diversity feels so great: ‘It feels like there’s no segregation.
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NewsweekOn Nov. 30, one day after Ole Miss defeated rival Mississippi State in the Egg Bowl to finish the regular season 11-1, Lane Kiffin decided to take the LSU head coaching job.
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Golding led the Rebels to two CFP wins. The first came at home against Tulane in the first round, winning 41-10. Ole Miss defeated Georgia 39-34 in the CFP quarterfinal in the Sugar Bowl. (The Rebels lost to the Bulldogs 43-35 in Athens during the regular season.)
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01 Newsweek Ole Miss gave Miami a run for its money in the CFP semifinal at the Fiesta Bowl but came up short in a 31-27 loss that allowed the Hurricanes to make the national championship game.
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02 Vanity Fair Lane Kiffin looked like a fugitive. He was standing in a scrubby field divided by a chain-link fence, shifting his weight anxiously from one foot to the other. He’d just been followed down a country highway by an angry mob, which screamed cusses and gave him the finger.
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