{"id":642361,"date":"2026-05-14T09:19:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T09:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/642361\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T09:19:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T09:19:16","slug":"lane-kiffin-apologizes-for-offending-ole-miss-says-diversity-comment-wasnt-calculated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/642361\/","title":{"rendered":"Lane Kiffin apologizes for offending Ole Miss, says diversity comment \u2018wasn\u2019t calculated\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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New LSU coach Lane Kiffin apologized if he offended his former school, Ole Miss, with recent comments about the school and state’s racial history. Justin Ford<\/p>\n

May 13, 2026Updated 11:41 am EDT<\/p>\n

New LSU coach Lane Kiffin said his recent comments in Vanity Fair<\/a> comparing the diversity of LSU and Ole Miss\u2019 campuses weren\u2019t \u201ccalculated.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI really apologize if anybody at Ole Miss or in Mississippi was offended by that,\u201d Kiffin told On3<\/a>. \u201cIn a four-hour interview, I was asked a lot of questions on a lot of things, and Ole Miss has been wonderful to me and to my family.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was asked questions about the differences in recruiting, and I said a narrative that we battled there from some out-of-state Black parents and grandparents was not wanting their kid to move to Mississippi. That\u2019s a narrative that coaches have been fighting forever. It wasn\u2019t calculated by bringing it up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kiffin told Vanity Fair that <\/a>top recruits would say \u201cHey, coach, we really like you. But my grandparents aren\u2019t letting me move to Oxford, Mississippi.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat doesn\u2019t come up when you say Baton Rouge, Louisiana,\u201d Kiffin said. \u201cParents were sitting here this weekend saying the campus\u2019 diversity feels so great: \u2018It feels like there\u2019s no segregation. And we want that for our kid because that\u2019s the real world.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Kiffin also told Vanity Fair, \u201cI just hope (my comment) comes across respectful to Ole Miss. \u2026 There are some things that I\u2019m saying that are factual, they\u2019re not shots.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ole Miss previously displayed an image of the Confederate battle flag that was flown on Ole Miss\u2019 campus until 2015, before the state flag design was changed in 2021.<\/p>\n

Kiffin left Ole Miss last December amid a conflict over whether he would be allowed to coach the Rebels in their College Football Playoff run. After Kiffin left for LSU and a $91 million deal, new coach Pete Golding led Ole Miss to the national semifinals.<\/p>\n

Kiffin went 32-6 in his final three seasons at Ole Miss. LSU plays Sept. 19 at Ole Miss for a game the SEC announced on Tuesday will kick off at 7:30 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n

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