Let all the Bulldog faithful rally behind the men who now wear the red and black with two words, two simple words which express the sentiments of the entire Bulldog Nation: Auburn Sucks.
The fact that folks may have been leaving a game early against Clemson is kind of laughable, but Lane is making a point here:
On the Lane Kiffin Show tonight, announced that the LSU students will be incentivized to stay until the end of the game, scan a QR code to prove you stayed & can win a side line pass, walk with the team on Victory Hill, speakers or other cool items. Lane Kiffin said if you are…
With the white out being unique, it stands to reason that folks might leave early in a blowout and make their ways home to see some of the other big games on the day, or the students will migrate out to resume day drinking the day away.
Can’t say I blame them…although where are you on the idea? Are you a stay until the clock hits zero kind of fan? Does it make you made to see people leave a game early?
Is the white uniform thing of interest to you all, or are you like Warren Brinson, who sees a little humor in uniform gimmicks and money grabs?
If you think the average Michigan man is happy with the Minutemen Miracle from Saturday, you’re wrong. The criticism has been directed not at the head coach, but at Dave Portnoy’s investment in Bryce Underwood.
I’m starting to feel bad for him. Got told he was a savior at 17 years old by Portnoy and Ellison and handed 12 million dollars.
1st coach was a weirdo 2nd coach is mentally on a beach
This has for sure been the worst week of his life. And on top of that, he’s bad at football pic.twitter.com/xQew6Uv8FN
Another post, which won’t embed here, looked like this:
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A quick perusal of the comments and I came across one where someone said “he gets paid to be a great quarterback”. And, lo, we have entered the conundrum of NIL in college sports.
Consider some of our collective disdain for Mike Bobo. It’s one thing to disagree with his play calling, it’s another thing altogether when you find out he gets a raise. While we once could bemoan a quarterback or athlete for a subpar effort, now we’re complaining about a lack of return on investment.
This is what the Senator warned us about, and now it’s here. Minor League Football and media rights rule the day. Don’t want to sit in noon weather for a cupcake game in Sanford? Blame not the UGAA, but look to the media rights. You’ll sit in the nuclear heat of the sun because it fits the viewing schedule, I don’t care if you’re a sun stroked mongoloid who dies from heat stroke, we have money to make here!
I don’t come here to point fingers at Underwood. If he’s my son, I’m telling him to take the money and then transfer somewhere reputable his junior year to develop if he wants to go pro. Like a USC or somewhere they develop quarterbacks.
What’s sad is between litigation and likeness, kids are now becoming semipros and people aren’t chalking it up to “maybe there’s next year” but are turning their attention to deepening the coffers to bring in the next bright shiny toy to their roster.
Gone are the days of amateurism and the walk in hero who earns a scholarship. Well, mostly.
Looks like it still happens, but maybe won’t at the P4 level anymore.
While other people have embraced the portal – Mike Norvell – and others have rejected it – Dabo Swinney – one thing is becoming more and more clear…Kirby has the right approach to navigating the portal era.
It might not happen this year, or next, but he’s building some roster consistency where others are not. In the interim, the highest bidders and the new shows in town, like tOSU and Indiana, will hoist trophies and beat their chests, but the 2021 and 2022 seasons were not aberrations. A long road of roster consistency and management will yield results, and as far as I’ve heard, no one is questioning how much Gunner or Nate Frazier are making this year.
And that says something, given the modern circumstances.
Dabo is officially on the hot seat, and it seems like he doesn’t much care about it. Ever since Brent Venables left the Greater Anderson Cow College, Clemson hasn’t necessarily been a feared program.
In Venables time at Clemson, roughly ten years from 2012-2021, Clemson lost a total of 17 games. In the four seasons since he took over at the helm at Oklahoma, Clemson hasn’t necessarily lost…17 games.
It’s not so bad, though…in the four years before Venables came to Clemson, Swinney lost 22 games.
It’s amazing what Swinney can’t accomplish as a head coach in his own, and people are becoming very aware of it. Smart may have had his last chance to embarrass Dabo when Georgia played Clemson a few years ago, but the better news is Kirby doesn’t have a split like that that people can point to based on a coordinator, no matter if the fan base likes the coordinator or not.
NEWS: LSU football is adding two players to the school’s roster, which will complete it at 105 players, per ESPN sources. This will lock LSU’s roster for the rest of the year, which will eliminate the program’s ability to add Dae’Quan Wright and Zxavian Harris. pic.twitter.com/gLJj7AyvPw
If there’s one person out there, whether you hate him or love him, who wouldn’t mind burning the business down on his way out, it’s probably Lane Kiffin.
Given the slings and arrows he endured as he exited Oxford, it’s hard not see how he could have some feelings about his indictment as a turncoat in modern college football. Transfers everywhere, people chasing a bag, so why not…and, oh, a loophole that allows 2022 players an extra year of eligibility to boot? Lane saw an opportunity for chaos, and jumped at the chance.
let’s pour gasoline on the fire and see what happens…because some people get a kick out of watching the fire department do their damndest to fight to extinguish something that’s impossible to put out.
Meanwhile, Lane has shifted from courtroom antics to locker room antics.
We can also laugh at “secretly released”… Kiffin WANTED that videoed & released. That’s why a staff member did it. pic.twitter.com/QoPn9PH44N
It sounds like he’s trying to channel his inner Kirby while also embracing the idea that he’s happy to kick a person when they’re down. He’s trying to make LSU a feared program again, and will use any fabricated voodoo to get there.
Gotta say, I’m impressed. Somehow in the midst of it all he’s had an expose book written about his horndog lifestyle in Tuscaloosa, tattled about tampering, abandoned a college football program as they were heading to the CFP, and all anyone can talk about is court and eligibility of pro players, whom he won’t even roster in the end.
And a 51-10 ass whipping of Clemson.
Lane decided that, instead of hating the PR machine for what it is, he’d hack it and use it to his benefit to rebrand himself as the villain of college football, a rogue badass who will now lay wate to everyone in his path, and not as Joey Freshwater anymore.
Why do I get the distinct feeling that radio broadcasts are about to find their way to a pay per listen medium? Will Glory Glory be create a subscriber only channel where Bulldawg fans can pay to hear the games?
Why would I not be surprised to see them dome Sanford and make fans pay to breathe the air?
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Of course, some folks are having fun with it, but I’m not sure if they’re giving Josh more ideas that could cost us down the road.
NFL teams were naming their 53 man rosters this week, and the Falcons decided to keep four quarterbacks, one of which is injured, the other is so concussed it’s questionable if he can make it out of the preseason, and two others that are more likely to be the starting quarterback by week 3 than the two highest paid guys on the team.
Meanwhile, Cash Jones missed the 53 man roster…but…
We have signed the following players to the practice squad:
Carlos Allen Jr. Vinny Anthony II James Brockermeyer Cobee Bryant Kam Dewberry Dylan Drummond Tyler Goodson Darnay Holmes Cash Jones Riley Mahlman Nick Muse Cam Sample Jack Velling Juice Wells Josh Woods… pic.twitter.com/lCWv2c8tQ0
In other news, Colbie Young and Zachariah Branch made their respective teams rosters, and Dillon Bell initially made the roster…only to have this happen a little later.
A number of former Bulldogs were cut this weekend, including Mecole Hardman, Channing Tindall, Azeez Ojulari, Dominic Lovett, Dan Jackson, Cash Jones, Noah Thomas, Malik Herring, Monty Rice, Zamir White, Trevor Etienne, Trey Hill, Lawrence Cager, Tre’ McKitty and Nazir Stackhouse. They will all hope to find new homes or potentially land on practice rosters.
Of those players, Thomas does fit the qualifications of someone who could potentially find themselves on an NFL (sic) roster, provided he gets a temporary restraining order. He was a 2022 recruit.
Technically, Bell could’ve made a return to an NCAA roster, as well…but I think we already know Kirby’s take on bringing guys from the NFL to an NCAA roster, right?
Kirby Smart says Georgia will not pursue NFL players:
"The opportunities presented to the guys on our team is important to me.
"They've earned those opportunities through an offseason, through a summer program, through a really tough fall camp." pic.twitter.com/lutqhRgXnb
Should you choose to challenge the SEC, there will be repercussions, Lane.
For TLDR (Too Long, Didn’t Read) version – the head coach will be suspended half the season, a fine equal to 50% of the sport’s annual budget, and no seat at the voting table.
I can only imagine that Lane is the son that’s been disowned by the greater Saban family tree at this point, and we can’t say that Nick didn’t try to warn us about it.
NEWS: #LSU signees, Dae’Quan Wright, Zxavian Harris, and Junior Tuihalamaka (alongside former Tiger, Jack Pyburn and others) will have a Preliminary Injunction hearing on Monday, August 31 at 1:30pm CT.
Say, now that’s interesting! The NCAA could slap a ban on LSU football from play or invalidate wins because Joey Freshwater conspired against the NCAA? Didn’t this really get started in Oxford, anyway?
If that’s the case and they can prove it, would that constitute “cause” in releasing Kiffin from his LSU contract? While hilarious and maybe a backhanded way for Lane to kill one of Alabama’s rivals and then backdooring his way into the Alabama head coaching position would be a level degree of chess that even I never gave him credit for.
of course this is on the heels of USA Today ranking Alabama the number 2 party school in the US, so maybe Lane had this in the works all along.
One thing of note: just because these guys can’t play in the SEC or B1G doesn’t mean they can’t play in other conferences. That means there’s only one way this can go for the ultimate “hilarity ensues” moment…
The decision making that occurred in bringing Lane Kiffin to LSU, and later to bring back Will Wade in one of the ugliest exits from a program to go back to a program, will be the thing of legends and documentaries once the dust settles. More than anything else, it will possibly make history as case law in litigating modern sports roster management.
First in basketball:
#BREAKING: The SEC is seriously considering banning all LSU sports programs from conference play due to today’s RJ Luis eligibility ruling, per sources.
RJ Luis just took a major step forward in spending the 2026-27 season in Baton Rouge. On Monday, a Louisiana judge granted Luis an injunction, On3’s Pete Nakos has confirmed. Luis now has an avenue to play for Will Wade and the LSU Tigers with an additional year of eligibility.
This is another example of a member of the 2022 recruiting class using the legal system to get back into college athletics. Luis spent three seasons at two different schools, initially suiting up for UMass. But after a year there, he opted to play for Rick Pitino at St. John’s.
Luis thought his college basketball career was over, entering the 2025 NBA Draft. He did not get selected but signed a two-way contract with the Utah Jazz. A stint out West did not last too long, as Luis was traded to the Boston Celtics in August. Unfortunately, just over two months later, he got waived.
SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey files affidavit against RJ Luis
SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey filed an affidavit in an eligibility case involving LSU and former St. John’s star RJ Luis. Sankey called Luis’ attempt to play for the Tigers “a competitive disadvantage and fundamental unfairness,” per ESPN’s Pete Thamel.
“These rules are grounded in the principle that athletics are an integral part of the academic experience,” Sankey wrote. “The rules align the time permitted for college athletics with the pursuit of an undergraduate education and further the important purpose of preserving opportunities for future student-athletes to participate in college sports.”
This is a move we have seen from Sankey before. Back when Alabama was going through the Charles Bediako situation, he opposed Nate Oats getting the big man on his roster. In the end, Bediako was ruled ineligible and his time in Tuscaloosa came to an end.
To date, the rumor has it that Luis would be Wade’s fifth player to join the program.
And he only has five. Like five members on the team, opting to go against the traditional recruiting and transfer route and trying to field a roster of nothing more that former pros to play in the SEC.
It’s certainly a strategy, no? At some point, one has to wonder if LSU is doing nothing more than saying “hey, NCAA, you screwed this up, and we’re going to make a mockery of it until you decide to get a backbone again”. Honestly, I can’t hardly blame them.
Meanwhile, aside from Lane’s decision to bring former pros and Ole Miss players to Baton Rouge, he now is making the news for how the Ole Miss administration had to treat the facilities after his departure.
When Lane Kiffin left Ole Miss for LSU in the middle of a College Football Playoff run, the Rebels did not just change their locks, and erase their white boards and their group texts while the dust settled. They also called the FBI.
Grove Collective executive director Walker Jones laid out the whole thing on the Assorted Crackers podcast, and it is the kind of story that tells you exactly how much trust was left in the building by the time Kiffin was out the door.
“We actually had the FBI come through and walk the building for bugs and for everything,” Jones said. “We knew kind of what was in Baton Rouge, and we knew how they operated.”
Jones said he checked under his own desk for recording devices. The staff ran two separate text threads, held separate meetings, and cut back on hallway conversations to keep information from leaking to the coaches who were either on their way to LSU or considering making the move alongside Kiffin. That certainly is not standard operating procedure for a program getting ready to play in the Playoff.
Kiffin’s antics are having wide-sweeping effects. As of writing this, the B1G and the SEC are meeting to discuss the ramifications of the pros-to-college movement, with the B1G reportedly taking a firm stand of prohibiting this in the conference, with the SEC (naturally) following suite and matching the B1G’s approach and energy with this matter today.
Which is better? The billable hours or the entertainment hours that has come of this?
Somehow, Nick Saban isn’t just looking like a grumpy old man who had his secret sauce stolen in the NIL/Transfer Portal era. Looks like he was right, that this was going to be the outcome of all this in the first place.
