{"id":665943,"date":"2026-05-26T11:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T11:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/665943\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T11:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T11:59:09","slug":"lsu-tigers-football-coach-lane-kiffin-could-be-punished-by-the-sec-over-ole-miss-comments-in-vanity-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/665943\/","title":{"rendered":"LSU Tigers football coach Lane Kiffin could be punished by the SEC over Ole Miss comments in Vanity Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"

LSU Tigers football coach Lane Kiffin could be punished by the SEC over Ole Miss comments in Vanity Fair<\/a> originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

LSU Tigers<\/a> football coach Lane Kiffin could reportedly see action from the SEC over his recent smear campaign in Vanity Fair<\/a> against the Ole Miss Rebels<\/a> and the University of Mississippi. Kiffin very bluntly accused Oxford, Mississippi, of harboring a hostile and racist environment on campus.<\/p>\n

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Per USA Today\u2019s Matt Hayes<\/a>, \u201cOfficials at Ole Miss and the SEC have spoken about a potential reprimand for new LSU coach Lane Kiffin over comments he made in a recent Vanity Fair magazine interview, two people close to the situation tell USA TODAY Sports \u2026 Kiffin, however, is standing firm he didn\u2019t make racially insensitive comments about the differences in recruiting at Ole Miss \u2014 where he coached from 2020-2025 \u2014 and LSU.\u201d<\/p>\n

Per Kiffin in response to USA Today on the Vanity Fair profile, \u201cPeople don\u2019t read the actual words I used in the article. I said, \u2018A parent said.\u2019 That\u2019s not me saying it as my opinion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kiffin was never asked by Vanity Fair editor Chris Smith about the topic. The new LSU head coach offered it unsolicited, while his new assistant and fellow former Ole Miss head coach, Ed Orgeron, corroborated the sentiment<\/a> right before he was hired in Baton Rouge.<\/p>\n

Tracey Ivey-Muhammad, the mother of former Ole Miss defensive lineman Jared Ivey<\/a>, a transfer from the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets who played on the Rebs from 2022 to 2024, and a Suwanee, Georgia, native, went on the record and publicly denounced Kiffin\u2019s claims<\/a>. Kiffin reportedly didn\u2019t speak to her more than once in her son\u2019s three years with the team. No one has supported Kiffin\u2019s claims thus far.<\/p>\n

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Lane Kiffin is already causing needless distractions at LSU<\/p>\n

Kiffin is causing needless distractions already in his first offseason with the Tigers. It\u2019s probably not a smart play, though, considering the need for success in Louisiana for a program that just got badly burned by Brian Kelly\u2019s contract buyout<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Since he made those comments, the NAACP has called for a boycott of schools in nearly every state in the SEC<\/a>. That is a likely impetus for Kiffin being in a position to be punished.<\/p>\n

LSU doesn\u2019t have time or money to waste, and Kiffin\u2019s antics are already potentially costly to the conference, his employer, and himself. If the wins don\u2019t come on the football field, Kiffin will have wasted an enormous NIL\/rev-share spend on his first-year roster. Who knows how long it\u2019ll take before he\u2019s on the hot seat? His leash would\u2019ve been longer at Ole Miss<\/a>, ironically.<\/p>\n

Kiffin has to sleep in the bed he\u2019s making in the Bayou. He could\u2019ve gotten off to a better start in the controversy department, mainly by not seeking it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LSU Tigers football coach Lane Kiffin could be punished by the SEC over Ole Miss comments in Vanity…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,8942,291049,43305,14765,279751,398,396,397,19502,7702,99,107597,5137],"class_list":["post-665943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-georgia-tech-yellow-jackets","tag-jared-ivey","tag-lane-kiffin","tag-lsu","tag-matt-hayes","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-ole-miss-rebels","tag-sec","tag-sports","tag-university-of-mississippi","tag-vanity-fair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665943","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=665943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}