Oh, man… the recruiting narrative continues ($$).
Some people think he’s a great recruiter, and I really don’t. I don’t think he gives a shit about it, to be 100 percent honest. That’s why it wouldn’t surprise me if he left this year.
It’s amazing the way people keep dumping on Dan Mullen.
Except that comment wasn’t about Mullen. It was about the coach seemingly half the Florida fan base has already anointed as their savior, Lane Kiffin. And it was said by somebody who should have a clue, a Mississippi high school coach.
Wait… there’s more!
… I don’t think Lane Kiffin cares to recruit Mississippi. That’s just me. To be honest … I don’t think Lane cares enough about recruiting to want to have to fight the battle for the kid. He’d rather show up, be Ole Miss and win it.
The general consensus in the piece from the coaches they spoke with was that Mullen did a better job recruiting in state than Junior’s doing. Ironic, ain’t it?
Get The Picture 
It just gets better and better. FTMF.
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Wuh! Mullen is a better recruiter than you are? That’s quite an insult.
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Joey Freshwater ain’t taking that back handed bitch slap laying down, he’ll be out there recruiting just as soon as he cares more about staying at his current hc location…
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Some podcast I was listening to recently quoted Aaron Murray as saying that Mullen recruited him and that Murray really liked him, said he made every effort. (Murray didn’t like Urbz). And then we have this guy saying that Mullen recruited Ms better than anyone else. I guess everyone’s trying to guess what happened there.
Can’t leave out that this coach is just an ass, because clearly Lane Kiffin is a very good recruiter. I mean, come on.
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As a few of you long time readers here know, quite a few years back (UT/USC days) I used to talk about my insight into Lane via a family friend, as those two worked closely together at several stops. I said then and will repeat now that Lane has an insane ego, in which he feels he shouldn’t have to beg anyone to come play for him.
In other words, his attitude has always been that a top high school recruit should consider himself lucky to have an opportunity to play for him, not the other way around. Of course, as we all know, for top recruiters like Smart, Saban, and others, they carry a completely different attitude (e.g. players make all the difference.)
Now, to be fair, perhaps Lane’s attitude has changed in recent years; but from afar, I still see a guy who comes across as a nonchalant, low energy type (apologies to Jeb Bush) who still carries himself with a certain aloof arrogance. In other words, his personality largely is the same.
With all that said, if Lane were ever to get the Florida job, I for one would be a static, as (IMO) it would end up being an extension of the Mullen years.
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That does appear to be pretty much the perception across the board in the article. It’s amusing that the one coach says Kiffin and Leach are pretty much the same (difficult) personality but that Kiffin manages to “trick people” on social media, lol.
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I don’t know anyone special or with particular insight, but I have been told that Lane Kiffin is not a good person and most of the stories about his … off the field activities? are generally close enough to true to be accurate.
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I won’t comment much on any personal related matters other than to say Lane is all about Lane, first and foremost.
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Are you suggesting this wasn’t an effective sales pitch?
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1883471-alshon-jeffery-should-be-pumping-gas-according-to-formerly-employed-lane-kiffin
Maybe Lane has found out that the entire state of Mississippi is one big Pahokee…
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/175490-the-pahokee-saga-lane-kiffin-against-the-world
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Kiffin, Leach, and Sanders. Pretty much on brand for the state of Mississippi, which is dead fucking last in every measurable positive social standard in the United States.
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Well, if you read the article you might be prepared to reconsider re: Sanders. Pretty much universal acclaim there.
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Shortest life expectancy of any state, which makes perfect sense to me: people in MS have nothing to live for.
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So, to what would y’all attribute all those lousy statistics and your obvious disdain for the denizens of Mississippi?
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Not sure what you’re driving at here, or if you’re genuinely curious and asking in good faith, but it isn’t hard to figure out where most of their issues originate from.
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All depends on what you like I guess. If you love to hunt and fish, and I do (I’m typing this from the deer stand) and the outdoors, Mississippi is great. I would rather be beaten with a hickory limb or have to fight a pack of wild dogs bare handed than live in Atlanta or spend any time there but that’s just me it’s fine by me if some people like it.
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“I’d rather drink muddy water
and sleep in a hollow log
than to live in Atlanta
treated like a dirty dog”
-Jimmy Rogers
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Lynyrd Skynyrd right there
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There are plenty of other places in the country where you can hunt and fish without living in the state with the lowest per capita income, lowest education rate, highest obesity rate, highest teen pregnancy rate, highest child mortality rate, shortest life expectancy, worst healthcare, and least economic mobility if any state in the country.
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I was just joking. I despise poor people too. And punching down is fun as fuck.
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Yeah, that’s totally what I was saying.
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So you’re saying we should kick Mississippi out of the union? Like build a wall on the Alabama border and let them fend for themselves?
Boycott Mississippi. I can dig it.
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“There are plenty…any state in the country.” I’m genuinely curious as to what you ascribe those miserable statistics. You’re a sincere, level headed fellow and I wouldn’t pull your chain. I have my theories based upon my observations as a teen laborer and an employer hiring from amongst rural folk. Also as a soldier I saw men from those areas and how they made it or not.
Got Cowdog, that bourgeoisie swine, has ulterior motives. He knows the gooberment has that giant experimental cannabis farm in Mississippi and is attempting to appropriate that technology in another of his evil schemes. Best to keep him close and on our side, FD.
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If Uncle Got has the whereabouts of a giant experimental cannabis farm, then I have never wanted to be sharecropper so badly in my life. Spill the gps coordinates, Dr. Evil.
Granddaddy always used to say “People are People” and Missip has some fine folks. I grew up listening to Jerry Clower talking about MS and the Ledbetters, and the place sort of grew on me. Besides, we never would have had Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury or Morgan Freeman telling us that Andy Dufresne was his friend w/o the good peeps of Missip.
Some of the best grouse hunting I’ve ever done was in MS.
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I will attest: That black delta soil can grow some fine-ass Ganja.
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I node it, I node it… Tommy: “He’s white, as white as you folks, with empty eyes and a big hollow voice. He likes to travel around with a mean old hound. That’s right.” with a name like Gotcowdog…starting to make sense
MS, crossroads, delta…hollow voice and mean old hound…
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“Curiouser and curiouser!” Cried Alice (and fuck those motherfuckers, she thought).
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🤣🤣🍺
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If a guy worked for Saban, I’m inclined to believe he recruited. Whether he liked it or was good at it is another story.
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Referring to kiffin of course, not Mullen.
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Maybe that HS coach is a miss state fan?
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…and now we know why Kiffykins won’t be at Ole Miss for long.
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I have no trouble believing Lane Kiffin is overrated as a recruiter. He’s pretty much the embodiment of overrated. That word will most likely be his epitaph or the one word of his obituary.
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So sounds like this article is saying that Kiffin is just Mullen with a better PR department.
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Can you imagine making your living managing Lane Kiffin’s public image? Now there is somebody that earns their damn money.
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I can believe Kiffin would be a lazy recruiter, but I bet if he leaned into it and decided it was important that he’d be a great one.
My first reaction to reading this from the Mississippi high school coaches, though, is to think that if I’m the coach at Ole Miss I’m going to be doing most of my recruiting in Louisiana, Florida, and probably Texas. It isn’t exactly a state where all you have to do is put up a fence and keep the local kids and you win the SEC.
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But you can’t let the good ones get away. Nkobe Dean and 2022 RB Branson Robinson are Mississippi kids. I’m sure Ole Miss would have loved to keep both.
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Regardless of what Kiffin can or can’t do, if anybody thinks he’s going head to head with Kirby and winning they’ve got rocks in their head.
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Lane’s connected to USC-Pete Carroll era and Alabama-Saban era, so people assume he was a part of those recruiting juggernauts. He certainly had a front row seat to gathering some insane rosters.
As others have said above, Lane’s often more interested in seeming rather than being.
But he is inarguably a guy who, at least in the short-term, gives programs a shot of adrenaline, for whatever reasons.
He certainly has Ole Miss playing better and harder than UF
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Ole Miss isn’t in the top 20 over the past 5 years in recruiting, but Lane has them a couple wins away from finishing in the top 10 on the field. If he shows up at Florida, he could easily bring a “Restore the Pride” message to all the parents who grew up in the 90s and are hurting from Mullen’s mismanagement.
Those parents WANT their kids at Florida, but right now, they don’t have a great reason to encourage them to go there.
Couple that with the one-time transfer rule which would allow him to cherry pick some Ole Miss players if he wanted, and you start to see someone who can come to the East and compete for #2.
Go Dawgs. FTMF.
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It’s amazing to me that they think Lane would be good for their program.
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They don’t care if he’s there for four years and the entire thing falls off a cliff and they have to hire yet another coach if he can get them a “championship”
they are good with that. They’re like Auburn.
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