{"id":20939,"date":"2025-10-26T05:48:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T05:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/20939\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T05:48:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T05:48:15","slug":"lane-kiffin-talks-florida-gators-rumors-with-ole-miss-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/20939\/","title":{"rendered":"Lane Kiffin talks Florida Gators rumors with Ole Miss players"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s becoming a yearly tradition for Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin<\/a> to find himself linked to job openings around the sport. Kiffin is once again a topic of discussion as the coaching carousel heats up this year. With the Florida Gators looking for their next head coach, Kiffin is the overwhelming favorite among Gators power brokers and fans to replace Billy Napier<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Kiffin addressed that speculation about his future with ESPN sideline reporter\u00a0Molly McGrath on Friday. McGrath also reported during a Friday hit on SportsCenter that Kiffin planned to also address those rumors with his team<\/a> ahead of Ole Miss\u2019s game against Oklahoma. <\/p>\n

Lane Kiffin confirmed that report on SEC Nation <\/p>\n

SEC Network\u2019s weekly traveling show, SEC Nation was in Norman, Oklahoma this weekend for the showdown between the Sooners and Rebels. The cast of Laura Rutledge, Tim Tebow<\/a>, Paul Finebaum, Jordan Rodgers<\/a>, and Roman Harper<\/a> asked Kiffin about the report<\/a> of his discussion about the Florida rumors with his team. <\/p>\n

Kiffin softly confirmed that report and discussed his message to his players.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just mentioned it to them [Friday], Lane Kiffin said on SEC Nation. \u201cThat\u2019s a product of having a program with a lot of players and coaches doing a really good job. I probably wouldn\u2019t even have mentioned it, because they\u2019ve been through this every year. Probably four years in a row, but we have so many new guys. I just told them, \u2018Hey guys, that\u2019s what happens around here because we win games and people like the style that we play in. \u2018 That\u2019s all a compliment to the players.\u201d<\/p>\n

SEC Nation crew praises Kiffin\u2019s handling of this topic<\/p>\n

One Lane Kiffin wrapped up his chat with the SEC Nation cast, and they discussed his handling of the rumors. They also praised his thinking of the players, whether they are tracking what\u2019s being said about their head coach or not. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s telling the truth that he\u2019s accurate about it,\u201d former Florida Gators QB Tim Tebow said. \u201cFor the last four years, every job, we can mention a bunch in the SEC and around the country that have brought his name up. He has been speculated about, talked about, and I know a lot of teams have talked to him and approached him. It\u2019s not new for him and this Ole Miss team, but it is new for some of the players. That\u2019s why I think it\u2019s appropriate the way he addressed it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Paul Finebaum also commended Lane Kiffin for handling things differently than most coaches in the sport do. <\/p>\n

\u201cI like what he did; he didn\u2019t attack the media like two other SEC coaches recently did,\u201d Paul Finebaum said. \u201cJust saying it\u2019s all fake. It\u2019s not fake. It\u2019s real. Kiffin\u2019s name is out there, and I think that is the way you do it as opposed to obfuscating against everyone and act like nothing else is happening. It is happening.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s becoming a yearly tradition for Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin to find himself linked to job…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,10891,9276],"class_list":["post-20939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-lane-kiffin-94-jefferson","tag-regwall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}