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That's not harsh considering the context/circumstances.  Player ghosted the program (sounds like he was unhappy about the position they were making him play), claimed mental health, but did not respon

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Exactly. Them SECs better just get out of his way if they know what’s good for them.   

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Ole Miss shuffles defensive staff with hiring of Cincinnati defensive coordinator Bryan Brown

ZACH BARNETT       1 HOUR AGO

Ole Miss on Friday announced the hire of former Rebel football player Bryan Brown as a senior member of Lane Kiffin's staff, which will necessitate a shuffling of defensive duties.

A native of Corinth, Miss., who played basketball for the Rebels in 2002 before transitioning to football from 2003-06, Brown will be the new co-defensive coordinator and secondary coach, where he'll handle both cornerbacks and safeties.

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He previously spent the past 12 seasons as a key member of Scott Satterfield's staffs, and the last six as defensive coordinator at Appalachian State, Louisville and Cincinnati. 

"We are excited to add a high-quality coach like Bryan Brown to our staff," Kiffin said. "He has deep Ole Miss roots as a player, and as a coach, he has proven himself multiple times to be one of the top defensive coaches and recruiters in the nation. He has a proven pedigree, and I think it continues to show our commitment to making Ole Miss Football a national program that competes at the highest level on both sides of the ball."

The Ole Miss secondary was coached by Wes Neighbors (safeties) and Keynodo Hudson (corners) last season. Hudson is no longer listed on the Rebels' staff page, while Neighbors has been moved to linebackers. The 2023 season was the first on staff for both coaches. 

Kiffin still has one spot open on his staff following tight ends coach John David Baker landing the East Carolina offensive coordinator job last month. 

The 2023 campaign, Kiffin's fourth at the school, was his best yet; the Rebels went 11-2, losing only to No. 4 Georgia and No. 5 Alabama, and ended the year with a Peach Bowl victory and a No. 9 final ranking -- the program's best finish since 1969. With a bushel of Portal acquisitions and the return of quarterback Jaxson Dart, the Rebels will be expected to reach the 12-team College Football Playoff in 2024. 

 

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Fucking Buccees. That place pushes me to the edge of an anxiety attack. The only times I've ever been they are packed, not like Lane's pic above... 

Was in Springfield, MO about 4 weeks ago and wife wanted to see the new one there. People walking everywhere through the parking lot and no one apparently knows that it is poor form to leave your car at the pump after pumping your gas at a busy gas station. 

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Fucking Buccees. That place pushes me to the edge of an anxiety attack. The only times I've ever been they are packed, not like Lane's pic above... 

Was in Springfield, MO about 4 weeks ago and wife wanted to see the new one there. People walking everywhere through the parking lot and no one apparently knows that it is poor form to leave your car at the pump after pumping your gas at a busy gas station. 

Patience….grasshopper.

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Will hear some support for Kiffin here.  Kid is still on scholarship, but not with team.  Current lawsuit.  This audio just leaked...

 

 

 

Judge dismisses $40 million lawsuit against Lane Kiffin

Ole Miss defensive tackle DeSanto Rollins sued his head coach for alleged racial and sexual discrimination, and more.

ZACH BARNETT    34 MINUTES AGO

A Mississippi judge on Thursday dismissed a $40 million lawsuit against Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin brought by a former player.

Rebels defensive tackle DeSanto Rollins filed a lawsuit in September alleging denial of equal protection, racial discrimination, sexual discrimination, violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act and more.

U.S. District Judge Michael P. Mills dismissed Rollins’ Americans with Disabilities Act and negligence claims against the school and Kiffin without prejudice, meaning they could be re-filed. The remainder of the case was dismissed with prejudice. 

Rollins, who is Black, says Kiffin discriminated against him on racial and sexual lines after Rollins told Kiffin he was taking a mental health break from the team. The suit argued Kiffin and Ole Miss treated white and female athletes that took mental leaves differently than Rollins. 

Ole Miss contends that Rollins remains on scholarship -- he's on the Rebels' online roster as of this writing. 

The pivotal moment in the case in February 2023. According to the case, Rollins was told he was moving from defensive line to the scout offensive line shortly after the death of his grandmother.

Rollins later recorded a meeting with Kiffin in which Kiffin berated the player for refusing to meet with him over multiple weeks last February and March.

“OK, you have a f—ing head coach, this is a job, guess what, if I have mental issues and I’m not diminishing them, I can’t not see my f—ing boss,” Kiffin said, according to the lawsuit. “When you were told again and again the head coach needs to see you, wasn’t to make you practice, wasn’t to play a position you don’t f—ing want to, OK, it was to talk to you and explain to you in the real world, OK, so I don’t give a f— what your mom says, OK, or what you think is the real f—ing world you show up to work, and then you say hey I have mental issues, OK.”

“Although Kiffin’s conduct in the meetings was certainly offensive and imprudent, it is more akin to immature insults and indignities than to behavior going ‘beyond all possible bounds of decency,'" Mills ruled. 

The suit sought $10 million in compensatory damages and $30 million in punitive damages.

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Guess Urban will be visiting ole miss quite often... watch your ass ladies  😋

Former Ohio State assistant Corey Dennis takes different analyst job

Ohio State's former QBs coach will now work off-field in the SEC, not the Big 12.

ZACH BARNETT        20 HOURS AGO

Former Ohio State quarterbacks coach Corey Dennis had previously joined Utah's staff as an analyst, but will now take the same role at Ole Miss, according to multiple reports. Dennis is now listed on Ole Miss's online staff page. 

The former Georgia Tech defensive back and wide receiver joined his father-in-law's Ohio State staff as an intern in 2015 and rose to become quarterbacks coach within six seasons. He was let go following the 2023 season. 

Dennis joins a Rebels staff with big expectations in 2024, perhaps the biggest in the program's modern history. 

With quarterback Jaxson Dart returning for his third year behind center and a No. 1 portal class, Lane Kiffin and company will be expected to build on last year's 11-2 record and No. 9 finish to compete for and reach the inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff. 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/ex-buckeyes-qb-coach-hired-by-ole-miss-rebels/ar-BB1iNaYo

 

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Sources: North Carolina State hiring away Ole Miss personnel assistant

Alex Faulk will serve as NC State's director of recruiting

JOHN BRICE        11 HOURS AGO

Alex Faulk, most recently the head of high school and junior college relations in Lane Kiffin's Ole Miss program, is departing his post, sources tell FootballScoop.

Faulk is set to accept an expanded role at North Carolina State, where he will become the director of recruiting for Dave Doeren's Wolfpack program.

Faulk had expanded his horizons at Ole Miss, and last year he was selected to participate in the NFL's prestigious Nunn-Wooten Scouting Fellowship program.

Ole Miss has had considerable recruiting success under Kiffin and just pulled in what is viewed by most services as the nation's top class of signees from the NCAA Transfer Portal in 2024.

 

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Guess Urban will be visiting ole miss quite often... watch your ass ladies  😋

Former Ohio State assistant Corey Dennis takes different analyst job

Ohio State's former QBs coach will now work off-field in the SEC, not the Big 12.

ZACH BARNETT        20 HOURS AGO

Former Ohio State quarterbacks coach Corey Dennis had previously joined Utah's staff as an analyst, but will now take the same role at Ole Miss, according to multiple reports. Dennis is now listed on Ole Miss's online staff page. 

The former Georgia Tech defensive back and wide receiver joined his father-in-law's Ohio State staff as an intern in 2015 and rose to become quarterbacks coach within six seasons. He was let go following the 2023 season. 

Dennis joins a Rebels staff with big expectations in 2024, perhaps the biggest in the program's modern history. 

With quarterback Jaxson Dart returning for his third year behind center and a No. 1 portal class, Lane Kiffin and company will be expected to build on last year's 11-2 record and No. 9 finish to compete for and reach the inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff. 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/ex-buckeyes-qb-coach-hired-by-ole-miss-rebels/ar-BB1iNaYo

 

 

Damn... Guess no Urban Meyer visiting ole miss practices now.  😋

"Tulsa on Tuesday announced Corey Dennis as its new quarterbacks coach and passing game coordinator."

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Former Mississippi State head coach Zach Arnett to join Ole Miss staff

After coaching against Lane Kiffin three times, Zach Arnett will now coach for him.

ZACH BARNETT    8 HOURS AGO

Earlier today, we pondered the possibility of Ole Miss hiring away Mississippi State's active head coach. 

Now, reality has given us Ole Miss hiring Mississippi State's (former) head coach.

Former Bulldogs head coach Zach Arnett is set to join Lane Kiffin's Rebels staff as an analyst, according to Zach Berry of OMSpirit.

Arnett spent the past four years on the other side of the Egg Bowl rivalry, three as the late Mike Leach's defensive coordinator and the 2023 campaign as head coach. Arnett actually only coached three Egg Bowls, though: he was fired Nov. 13 of last year, 10 days before the Egg Bowl.

Kiffin went 2-1 against Arnett's defenses. Ole Miss won 31-24 in Oxford in 2020, and 31-21 in Starkville the following year.

Mississippi State struck back with a 24-22 victory in Oxford in 2022, in what would tragically become Leach's final game. 

Prior to Mississippi State, Arnett spent the first nine years of his career at San Diego State. He started in 2011 as a GA and by 2018 was the Aztecs' defensive coordinator.

 

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Sources confirm former NFL head coach Joe Judge joining Lane Kiffin at Ole Miss

JOHN BRICE          16 HOURS AGO

Lane Kiffin teased the move Tuesday.

By Wednesday afternoon, the word was out.

Ole Miss, which has experienced unprecedented success the past two years under Kiffin, has once again fortified the football program's staff.

Sources confirm to FootballScoop that former NFL head coach Joe Judge has joined Kiffin's Ole Miss coaching staff in an off-the-field, senior analyst-type role.

Kiffin had been asked about adding coaches and players from Alabama and/or the Nick Saban Tree; Judge spent three seasons under Saban at Alabama from 2009-11. 

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"There's going to be another one here in the next day or two that I think you're going to know really well," Kiffin said, obviously alluding to Judge. "It's going to be the same situation."

The news also was reported by multiple outlets in Mississippi.

Kiffin also had discussed a new addition to the Ole Miss personnel/scouting department with deep NFL roots.

"I just continue to try to evolve to where I think it (the sport of college football) is and where it's going," Kiffin said Tuesday of the addition of NFL scouting veteran Mike Williams, which was first reported by Matt Zenitz of 247Sports and confirmed by FootballScoop. "I just try to say, 'OK, this is what it is' and look at things a different way and you need to have really good personnel people because now you've got, like the NFL, you've got all these investment pieces where people are paying players.

"So, another evaluation and a really good evaluator that's got NFL background that (Jim) Harbaugh signed off on with me is really important."

A Mississippi State grad, Judge was the head coach for two seasons of the New York Giants (2020-21) and had two different stints under Bill Belichick with the New England Patriots that spanned almost a decade.

 

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New ole miss salaries announced...

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* - Salary earned by 2023 staff member.

New co-defensive coordinator Bryan Brown will earn significantly more than former corners coach Keynodo Hudson, but new tight ends coach Joe Cox will earn less than former tight ends coach John David Baker, who also carried a co-coordinator title. Not included in the document dump was the contract for general manager Billy Glasscock, who was hired away from Texas. 

https://footballscoop.com/news/ole-miss-dishes-raises-extensions-to-lane-kiffins-coaching-staff-pete-golding

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Lane Kiffin, Ole Miss hire senior personnel staffer with deep NFL, West Coast ties

Rebels have reshaped much of their personnel department this offseason

JOHN BRICE       APR 2, 2024

After hiring away Billy Glasscock earlier this year from Texas to serve as his Ole Miss program's general manager, Lane Kiffin has made another significant addition to the Rebels' personnel department.

Mike Williams has joined the Ole Miss program as senior director of player personnel.  Williams has a diverse football background, but perhaps most notable he logged nearly 15 years in the San Francisco 49ers organization.

Williams, who started with the 49ers as an area scout, had a nine-year initial run with San Francisco before he accepted an elevated position with the then-St. Louis Rams.

After three years as that franchise's vice president of player personnel, Williams returned to the Niners in enhanced role as their pro personnel consultant.  He then worked collegiate in recruiting at San Jose State and also logged time as a consultant for the QB Collective.

Williams became an assistant head coach at the prep level in California at Archbishop Riordan before working most recently as the lead scout for Hub football camps.

His knowledge of NFL scouting techniques and roster methods could be valuable elements for Kiffin and the Rebels, who have worked well to reshape their roster in recent seasons via the NCAA Transfer Portal.

Just last week, Kiffin lamented the "really stupid system" but also acknowledged Ole Miss had utilized the current format to fortify its football program.

 The Rebels are just 12 days away from concluding their spring camp with their annual 'Grove Bowl' inside Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. 

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As an aside towards where Lane gets his personality from, Monte missed a Bowl game because he stole a milk truck on campus for laughs, and Monte Sr. was the head of the Nebraska State Fair for a long stretch. 

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Lane Kiffin explains how Ole Miss will handle play-calling

Kiffin says helmet communications don't negate need for signaling

JOHN BRICE             13 HOURS AGO

Green dots.  That's the new terminology suddenly omnipresent in college football.

What does it mean?

Well, it's the new lingo to designate which players are going to have in-helmet communication for the coming season, as college football joins the NFL some 30 years after the latter introduced on-field, in-helmet conversations between coaches and a designated player.

Offensively, it's the quarterback and one or two backup quarterbacks who will have a helmet with the new technology and the accompanying green-dot sticker on the back of their helmets to signify they're talking to their coaches.

Defensively? Many programs are using their Mike linebackers, though some are choosing their veteran-most player -- a different linebacker or a safety who acts as the de facto center-fielder of the defense.

Lane Kiffin, an elite offensive mind who still greatly influences Ole Miss's offensive play-calling, is sharing the Rebels's plans for incorporating headset huddles.

"You just fall back to signaling," Kiffin said when asked about the Ole Miss contingency plan in case of a malfunction or other issue. "I guess to explain it to you, an easy way to think of it is at 15 seconds (on the offensive play-clock), you're going to have to have all of your old stuff, anyway, because at 15 seconds you've got no communication [the rules stipulate the headset feed is halted at that point]. 

"You better have your whole system in place before signaling, as if this didn't exist."

Kiffin believes the need to be able to fully function without the in-helmet communication is both a preventative measure and also a strategic one.

"One, because that's going to happen at times, even for us offensively," Kiffin said of helmet communications being halted before a play is snapped. "And defensively, that may happen a number of times if the (opposing) team is going slow.

"So, you still need to have, in my opinion, your whole system that you had before."

The Rebels, preseason No. 6 in both the USA Today Coaches Poll and the AP Top 25, open their season of great expectations Aug. 31 at home against FCS powerhouse Furman, which is coming off another postseason FCS Playoffs run under veteran coach Clay Hendrix.

 

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Details of Ole Miss's contract with Lane Kiffin are out

Ole Miss is far more committed to Lane Kiffin than Kiffin is to Ole Miss -- $32.59 million more committed, to be exact.

ZACH BARNETT        4 HOURS AGO

Open records obtained by the Jackson Clarion-Ledger have given us a peek under the hood of Lane Kiffin's contract with Ole Miss, and the details are fascinating.

For starters, Kiffin's contract is with the Ole Miss Athletic Foundation and not the University of Mississippi, which allows Ole Miss to circumvent the Mississippi law preventing state institutions from awarding contracts longer than four years. This arrangement allows Ole Miss to have Kiffin under contract through Dec. 31, 2029. Ole Miss has a similar deal with men's basketball coach Chris Beard, and Mississippi State does the same with Jeff Lebby.

"As an institution that competes at the highest level of college athletics, it’s imperative that our coaching contracts are competitive with market standards, and with the current model, we have been able to effectively navigate the contractual process in our industry," an Ole Miss spokesperson told the paper.

Moving further, Ole Miss is far more committed to Kiffin than Kiffin is to Ole Miss. 

Should he leave for another job after this season, Kiffin would owe the OMAF a $4 million buyout, which decreases over the life of the deal to an eventual $1.5 million. But if Ole Miss were to fire Kiffin without cause, the OMAF would owe 80 percent of the remainder, which equates to $36.59 million if done after this season -- with no duty to mitigate. 

Kiffin's salary sits at $9 million per year over the life of the deal. He'll technically earn $8.85 million in salary in 2024 with a $150,000 retention bonus due on Dec. 31, 2024; the following day, his salary increases to $9 million from 2025 through '29.

Furthermore, Kiffin's contract automatically extends each year Ole Miss wins seven regular season games. The deal actually includes an automatic extension every year, per the Clarion-Ledger, but Kiffin and the OMAF have the mutual option to forgo the extension in the even the Rebels win six or fewer regular season games.

Either way, Ole Miss should be eager to extend Kiffin after this season, considering the Rebels set a program record with 11 regular-season wins in 2023 and enter this season ranked No. 6 in the AP poll, the program's highest starting point since 1970. 

 

 

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