Ole Miss head football coach Lane Kiffin denies he’s been given an ultimatum by Ole Miss to decide by next Friday on where he plans to coach next season. Kiffin was a guest on ESPN’s Pat McAfee show.
“That’s absolutely not true. There’s been no ultimatum, anything like that at all. And so I don’t know where that came from, like a lot of stuff that comes out there. Like I said, man, we’re having a blast. I love it here,” Kiffin said.
Ole Miss has led the Rebels to a 10-1 record this season, but his success in Oxford has led to LSU and Florida both attempting to hire him as their next coach. There are several reports that Kiffin’s family members toured both Gainesville and Baton Rouge this week. Wilson Alexander of the Advocate says if Kiffin is going to Ole Miss for LSU, he wants assurances that there will be enough NIL dollars to build a championship roster.
“Lane Kiffin was asked recently, like what makes a good job. And one of the things that he said was, ‘ the money. Like you have to have the NIL money. You have to be able to have that kind of infrastructure in place,"” Alexander noted.
Alexander says reports out of Oxford suggest that Ole Miss does not want Kiffin coaching the Rebels in the college football playoffs if he plans on leaving for LSU or Florida. He says that’s why we may know soon whether Kiffin will be the next head coach of the Tigers.
“It would make for a fascinating situation. If Lane leaves, on the verge of going to the playoff with his team for the first time, and Ole Miss goes through the playoff with an interim coach, I mean, that seems to be a possibility here if he were to take one of these other jobs,” Alexander said.
Ole Miss has a bye week this this Saturday and its final regular season game is the Egg Bowl against Mississippi State on November 28th.
