{"id":310434,"date":"2025-11-24T07:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T07:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/310434\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T07:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T07:55:09","slug":"regardless-of-kiffin-decision-one-things-clear-no-fanbase-wants-eli-drinkwitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/310434\/","title":{"rendered":"Regardless Of Kiffin Decision, One Thing’s Clear: No Fanbase Wants Eli Drinkwitz"},"content":{"rendered":"

It doesn’t look like Eli Drinkwitz will be receiving a warm welcome in Gainesville or Baton Rouge.<\/p>\n

PublishedNovember 23, 2025 6:35 PM EST\u2022UpdatedNovember 23, 2025 6:31 PM EST<\/p>\n

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In the current coaching carousel<\/a> of the 2025 college football season, names are being tossed about like beads at Mardi Gras.<\/p>\n

Lane Kiffin is the ultimate prize<\/a>, and there are several teams that are in the running<\/a> to earn his services next season, but he can only end up at one school.<\/p>\n

This means that any athletic director worth his salt is already doing his due diligence and lining up backup plans.<\/p>\n

Options B through F probably won’t excite the fanbase quite like option A, but plenty of programs have been quite successful in having to pivot to their backup plans in the past.<\/p>\n

One name that keeps getting thrown around as a backup plan for whichever school ends up “whiffin’ on Kiffin” is none other than Missouri Tigers head coach Eli Drinkwitz.<\/p>\n

I’ve made my thoughts on Eli Drinkwitz<\/a> very transparent in the past few days, but it would seem I am not alone.<\/p>\n

Both LSU and Florida are rumored to be looking at Drinkwitz as a pivot plan should Kiffin fall through, so let’s check in on their respective fanbases, shall we?<\/p>\n

We will start with Florida, since all the public perception seems to be that they are out of the running to land the current Ole Miss head coach.<\/p>\n

Whether that’s true or not remains to be seen, but one thing that is quite apparent is that Gator fans will be none too pleased with their rumored backup plan.<\/p>\n

Well, that doesn’t leave a lot up to interpretation now, does it?<\/p>\n

Let’s see how LSU fans feel about Drinkwitz.<\/p>\n

I know things seem to be trending towards Lane Kiffin landing in Baton Rouge, but nothing is a guarantee when you deal with Jimmy Sexton and the troll master Kiffin himself.<\/p>\n

Hmm, it doesn’t look like anyone wants Eli Drinkwitz to be their next head coach.<\/p>\n

It could have something to do with the fact that he’s benefited from one of the easiest SEC schedules over the last three years or that he hasn’t beaten a single team with a winning record in his conference, but I’m just spit balling here.<\/p>\n

I can tell you this, whoever loses out on the Lane Kiffin Sweepstakes better pray their administration doesn’t hire the current head coach at Mizzou.<\/p>\n

Because if social media is to be believed, one of these fanbases is poised to make January 6 look like a trip to the local library by comparison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It doesn’t look like Eli Drinkwitz will be receiving a warm welcome in Gainesville or Baton Rouge. PublishedNovember…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-310434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310434","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=310434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}