Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Coming up in our next segment, we will talk some NBA draft lottery. Where's Darren Peterson going to go? We'll talk some playoffs. Alex Schiffer, our NBA draft insider, will join us here in the program. How about this story? Lane Kiffin? Mm-hmm. said that claims lack of diversity made recruiting to Ole Miss more difficult. Which he had good talent coming to Ole Miss. Yeah.
It wasn't the money, mind you, that he got, the $13 million per to go to LSU. No. He said, you know, According to Kiffin, the conversations are very different from the ones he had with some high-profile recruits at Ole Miss. Quote, 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. And we want that for our kid because that's the real world. Okay. It tracks.
Chapter 2: What did Lane Kiffin say about recruiting challenges at Ole Miss?
This is a Vanity Fair interview. After the interview, Kiffin followed up with Vanity Fair to state that he wasn't trying to take shots at Oxford. He was simply relaying conversations he had while coaching there.
Chapter 3: How did Lane Kiffin's comments reflect on Ole Miss's diversity issues?
Quote, I just hope my comment comes across respectful to Ole Miss. I'm sure they took it as a compliment. There are some things that I'm saying that are factual. They're not shots. By the way, there are some things that I'm saying that are factual.
He didn't help his cause there.
The Ole Miss football program has been wrestling with its Old South ties for a while now. In 1996, Tommy Tuberville fought a similar battle regarding the use of the Confederate flag in Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. According to author Jay Busby in his book, Iron in the Blood, Tuberville told University Chancellor Robert Kyatt in 1996, quote, we can't recruit against that flag.
Tuberville even told notable Ole Miss alum Harold Brunson that the flags were, quote, killing the Rebels. But the flags on campus were not getting our share of black players that are going to other schools, Tuberville said. I mean, you and I were talking about it. I have not spent... By the way, here's another one from the CBS Sports article.
Even well outside the borders of Mississippi, SEC coaches have pushed to eliminate ties between their program and the Confederacy. In 2007, then-South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier called for, quote, that damn Confederate flag to be removed from the statehouse. Yeah, which it was for a long time. The flag was eventually removed in 2015.
You and I were talking about this, and we're like, listen, neither one of us
have lived as a black man in the south or anywhere else for that matter so we don't know uh what the difference might be but it felt like to us again and we may be completely ignorant uh as to what we're talking about here we are not claiming to be experts on the subject but we felt like the one big thing was the fact that the confederate flag remains a part of the old miss
They're called the rebels. Yeah. It's not because they're teenagers who are looking to get away with stuff, hijinks, without their parents finding out. That's where the name came from. So that's hard to recruit against anyway.
So I think there is something there. But I don't think there's any chance Lane Kiffin wasn't just trying to pour salt in the wound and magnify and make a point of this. In case you're a kid that hadn't connected those dots or weren't worried about it, let me let you know you should be. Yes. This just seems like the classic Lane Kiffin, get under skin, do whatever it takes.
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