{"id":290709,"date":"2025-11-14T07:45:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T07:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/290709\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T07:45:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T07:45:12","slug":"joel-klatt-claims-ole-miss-lsu-are-both-offering-lane-kiffin-a-blank-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/290709\/","title":{"rendered":"Joel Klatt claims Ole Miss, LSU are both offering Lane Kiffin a ‘blank check’"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the biggest storylines of the college football season has revolved around the future of polarizing Ole Miss<\/a> head coach Lane Kiffin<\/a>. He\u2019s the hottest name in the sport.<\/p>\n

Kiffin, who has been with the program since 2020, has the Rebels on the verge of making the College Football Playoff for the first time in school history. Meanwhile, LSU<\/a> and Florida<\/a> have both parted ways with their head coaches (Brian Kelly<\/a> and Billy Napier<\/a>) mid-season and reportedly have all eyes on Kiffin as a replacement.<\/p>\n

Ahead of No. 7 Ole Miss\u2018 clash against Florida this Saturday, FOX Sports\u2018 Joel Klatt claims that both Ole Miss and LSU are offering Kiffin a \u2018blank check\u2019 to lead their programs into the future. Klatt also revealed that Florida is not quite in that same boat.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s an old coaching adage out there that the quickest way to be defeated is to be distracted,\u201d Klatt said. \u201cI think that the biggest threat to Ole Miss down the stretch is distraction. And that distraction in the form of their future head coach. I don\u2019t know where Lane Kiffin is going to end up. I know that Ole Miss is basically telling him, \u2018Hey, it\u2019s a blank check. You tell us what you need to stay here, and we will do it.\u2019 I have that on good authority.<\/p>\n

\u201cI also have, on pretty good authority, that LSU is prepared to do the same thing for Lane Kiffin. They\u2019ll basically tell him, \u2018The keys are yours.\u2019 Florida is a job that I think Lane would prefer over the other two, from what I\u2019ve been told, and they are not quite in the same boat as Ole Miss and LSU in terms of \u2018here, the sky is yours and name your price.\u2019 There are more strings.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kiffin reveals job status rumors haven\u2019t been brought up this week<\/p>\n

This week means a little bit more to Kiffin and his program, as they fell to Florida 24-17 last season in Gainesville. Because of this, Ole Miss\u2018 head coach revealed during his Monday press conference that those rumors haven\u2019t even come up this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t even talked about it to them, and I think I\u2019m pretty close to the players, where they walk by or they say something, you know, like, if it was on their mind, they\u2019d make a joke or something,\u201d\u00a0Kiffin said<\/a>. \u201cI don\u2019t think it is. They\u2019re very focused on what to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAgain, I said it\u2019s a different age nowadays, like when I addressed it a couple weeks ago. I certainly don\u2019t think it was a distraction since. We won at\u00a0Oklahoma<\/a>,\u00a0South Carolina<\/a>, and played really well last week. This is kind of the world that we\u2019re in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ole Miss has just two games remaining in its season (Florida and Mississippi State<\/a>). If they can win both of those games, the Rebels are more than likely in the College Football Playoff. Distractions regarding his job status are likely the least of Kiffin\u2019s worries right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the biggest storylines of the college football season has revolved around the future of polarizing Ole…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,58826,96466,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-290709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-joel-klatt","tag-lane-kiffin-94-jefferson","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}