Lane Kiffin felt that he took the right approach when weighing the pros and cons between Auburn and Ole Miss. Some fans didn’t think the same, though.
It didn’t provide any clarity on the situation, but Kiffin quote-tweeted the WCBI News reporter’s tweet later that night and said, in part, “That’s news to me Jon.”, opted to hire Hugh Freeze from Liberty.
Kiffin told his Ole Miss team that he planned to stay the night before their game against Mississippi State, per ESPN, and a long-term contract extension was announced the following week.Getty ImagesHe didn’t plan to reveal his intentions until after the season, feeling that it would’ve flipped the discussion and made it about him — the program’s coach since 2020 — before such a pivotal rivalry game.
But “sometimes the right thing to do doesn’t always go right in areas,” Kiffin told ESPN, and he felt that was the case because Ole Miss lost to Mississippi State. After a 5-5 start in his first season with the Rebels, they went 18-8 across 2021 and 2022, losing in both bowl games but returning to the AP top 10.
Before becoming the coach at Ole Miss, Kiffin spent three years at Florida Atlantic, four years at USC and one at Tennessee as head coach, with a stint as Alabama’s offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach mixed in.
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