{"id":58283,"date":"2025-11-24T03:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T03:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/58283\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T03:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T03:26:07","slug":"lane-kiffin-coaching-rumors-josh-pate-warns-do-not-confuse-silence-with-inaction-for-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/58283\/","title":{"rendered":"Lane Kiffin coaching rumors: Josh Pate warns ‘do not confuse silence with inaction’ for Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

Josh Pate wouldn\u2019t be so quick to rule out Florida<\/a> in the Lane Kiffin<\/a> sweepstakes. As the clock continues to tick on the coach to make a decision on where he wants to be next season, the Gators have been getting the least amount of buzz. <\/p>\n

Instead, it\u2019s been mostly LSU<\/a> that has emerged as a top destination, with the possibility of Kiffin staying at Ole Miss<\/a> also still being on the table. But Pate sent a warning not to count Florida out of the race completely. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe one thing I\u2019ll say about Florida is I know there only seems to be a fraction of the noise coming out of Florida that there is LSU,\u201d he said Sunday on Josh Pate\u2019s College Football Show<\/a>. \u201cThat may be because he ends up signing with LSU. I would just caution you: do not confuse silence with inaction. Sometimes there\u2019s a lot going on behind the scenes and it\u2019s just buttoned up pretty tight. So I don\u2019t take the relative silence out of Gainesville compared to Baton Rouge to mean Florida\u2019s just cooked here.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know a lot of the reporting is that Florida is a distant third and this and that. I still think they\u2019ve got a shot. That\u2019s all I\u2019m saying. Not a leader in the clubhouse, nothing like that. I\u2019m not making a pick, I\u2019m just saying I still think they\u2019re in it. I think he could stay at Ole Miss. I absolutely think he could go to LSU.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kiffin met Friday with Rebels athletic director Keith Carter<\/a> to discuss his future with the program. After that meeting, Carter released a statement in which he said the coach would have an announcement on his future on Nov. 29 after Ole Miss plays Mississippi State<\/a> in the Egg Bowl. <\/p>\n

Lane Kiffin also made recent visits to both Baton Rouge and Gainesville as he weighs his decision. A recent report from CBS Sports<\/a> claimed that LSU was in the lead while Ole Miss was second and Florida third. <\/p>\n

Pate made clear that he wasn\u2019t making a declaration on a winner with his statement. He just thinks that realisitcally, it could be any of the three options still at this point. <\/p>\n

\u201cI have no idea where he\u2019s going,\u201d the college football analyst said. \u201cApparently, some people do think they know where he\u2019s going. Here\u2019s what I do think: I think you\u2019ve heard indications that make you strongly believe you know where he\u2019s going. There are very, very strong indications to make you think he\u2019s going to LSU. I know what you\u2019re talking about. I am not ready to say that. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere are some people who would think, \u2018Hey, man, read the tea leaves. Have you heard this about Florida? Have you heard that about Florida?\u2019 Yeah, I have. I am not ready to say that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Josh Pate wouldn\u2019t be so quick to rule out Florida in the Lane Kiffin sweepstakes. As the clock…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,10891],"class_list":["post-58283","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58283","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=58283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}