Lane Kiffin just can’t stand being out of the spotlight for fifteen minutes. Now, he’s decided to create a new story about why he left Ole Miss for LSU, and, no, it wasn’t all about the money. At least, that’s Lane’s story this week, and he’ll stick to it.
It’s a slow time of season, so, naturally, this blew up on the socials and people were quick to point out why LSU landed on the Tigers as a mascot:
NEW ORLEANS — You may have seen a petition circulating on social media aimed at getting LSU to change their mascot.
The Change.org headline reads “Change the racist mascot of LSU,” and goes on to say “these powerful white males choose the Tiger as a symbol to honor a confederate regiment called Louisiana’s Tigers. They were known for their propensity for violence on and off the battle field. They were just as violent to the black slaves they owned, and later even more violent once those slaves were set free.”
Is there any truth to that statement? We started our search for answers at LSU.
Media Relations Director Ernie Ballard told us that the university is aware of the “largely anonymous petition suggesting the university change the mascot.”
“The tiger mascot was adopted in the 1890’s by the football team and was selected based on lore about the battlefield ferociousness of a Louisiana regiment operating in Northern Virginia,” Ballard confirmed.
But as for the alleged “propensity for violence off the battlefield” or their alleged ownership or treatment of slaves before or after the war? Ballard says “there is no information about soldiers’ conduct outside of the battlefield accounts.”
LSU heads to Oxford on September 19th this year.
If Kiffin thought going back to Tennessee was bad, he may need consider calling in sick when he returns to The Grove.
Last year I thought he had finally grown up. He’s just a total douche.
I’m starting to believe that he’s TRYING to be a douche. There’s no other explanation
Never attribute to maliciousness, that which can be explained by sheer incompetence…
I am so glad he’s LSU’s problem and not ours. Those spots never changed.
Ain’t helping those Bama chances. Just a dumbass. Like the old Southern Maid bacon commercial” he’ll never learn””
!!
One- Kiffin is a damn liar. Two- It’s a damn tiger.
Kiffin’s Kajun Kast hits Vanity Fair! Lance just dropped a Chef’s Kiss Psi Op on the world and I for one adore it!
Has anyone even read the article? It’s Vanity Fair and I’m gonna make an Arse Out of You AND Me, but I don’t think the Refugees are populated by Dim witted, emotionally unhealthy, morbidly obese, childless women drowning in student debt – Vanity Fair’s demographic. The most spoiled demographic in our country that believe Russian Bots wearing White Robes are hiding in the bushes to spray a pandemic all over Democracy.
Beautiful Work by Lance – calling all the Sorority Girls at Florida Atlantic really ended up being long con research for this moment.
Not since the Hulk went NWO has there been a better Heel turn.
Grandparents don’t want their fragile D1 prospect baby boys that command seven figure deals to go to Ol PIss? Spoiler Alert: it’s 2026 the numbers don’t add up, they ain’t alive. No player being recruited has a grandparent born pre Civil Rights Act. Also, greed trumps (not political) principle in College Football, checks notes, ALWAYS! That’s how Bear Alexander ended up not being a 1st Round Draft pick.
Lance is sowing disarray against his Week 3 rival road game, setting up a radioactive narrative for the Pete McAfee Show AND taking his brand selling a loser’s narrative to the non-College Football fans to tip the scale with the selection committee in December. Brilliant stroke.
Don’t fall for it, only pay attention to it to laugh at the suckers and fools, we call them Jive Turkeys in GringoManor, that fall for it. Every second of this is a gift giving Honey Bobo time behind the scenes to get Gunnar, for once in his life to look at the top of his Route Tree, instead of checking down to the 11th option or running head first into the biggest cluster of defenders waiting for him at the stick, lol.
Now who can argue with that? I think we’re all indebted to hialtdawg23 for clearly stating what needed to be said. I’m particularly glad that these lovely children were here today to hear that speech. Not only was it authentic message board ranting, it expressed a courage little seen in this day and age. Well done sir.
Nil Burton is a Pud is right!
Hear! Hear! ugafidelis is right!
Re’rend!
Well done sir! I’ll join the others in applause.
I guess you’ve never read Vanity Fair.
The comments on IG are great. People from MS and LA arguing with each other over which turd smells better.
I grew up in Louisiana and left at age 20, lived in Mississippi for over a decade, and then moved to Georgia where I’ve lived for over 35 years. I think there are roughly equal percentages of racists in all three states.
He loves being the center of attention. Now that he has a 91 million dollar security blanket expect more obnoxious Lane.
What a nut-cup. I wish him nothing but the best Cajun gonorrhea.
That stings.
Pretty itchy too…
the fighting lsu redsticks are ready to take the field at their home field fortress of corndogs
I don’t think Louisiana is the race relations upgrade that he thinks it is.
In terms of the population, definitely not an upgrade. In terms of going into living rooms in Dallas, Houston, Miami, etc…? I wouldn’t be surprised if Lane faces somewhat less resistance. Reputations need not be based in fact or in reality.
Is the idea here that Ole Miss doesn’t have a bad rep or that Lane should just shut up about their rep?
I don’t think anyone is arguing about Ole Miss’s past/rep, but it wasn’t hurting him getting players to Oxford. If it was why wasn’t he saying anything about it while he was there? It isn’t unlikely that someone may have said something about the Ole Miss rep to him, but to say it was some significant hurdle in attracting black players to Oxford while have some of the best players Ole Miss has ever had on campus is a bit rich. It didn’t seem to prevent probably the best QB/RB combo in the country from being there and staying after he left.
I think its highly likely that some of his targets balked at going to Oxford. Whether it was to a degree that mattered on the field is indeterminable.
Would he have said it had they allowed Laner to coach into the playoffs as I suggested OM should have done?
Also indeterminable. But he may well not have taken the swipe.
Lane’s a product of the California public disinformation system. Wait until someone cracks open a history book about Alabama just as the gumps come calling for him in a few years.
Regardless of all the bullshit and side show drama, he is a good coach & superb offensive mind. With the resources & unlimited NIL money, & as much as I hate to believe it, LSU will be a force to reckoned with
Too many in game brain farts imho. Cost bama a title getting cute vs OSU.
Too enamored with going for it on 4th and short.
He remains too immature and childish to attain long term success.
That said, like a lot of good offensive coaches, if he gets the right DC and talent on the DL he’s going to cause some folks problems.
He’s in one of the three best seats in college football.
I think it’ll be a shooting star. Short lasting. The only question is whether the apogee will be a title or an almost?
Kiffin taking a shot at his former employer by way of saying he wasn’t taking a shot is peak douchery. I’m personally not stirred up by LSU choosing to go by Tigers. I mean, the Michigan Cavalry brigade commanded at Gettysburg by one George Armstrong Customer went by the moniker “Wolverines”. Yes, it’s true Ole Piss has gone through tons of gyrations over the years to get rid of the Confederate flag, while their mascot evolved from the cartoonish “Colonel Reb” to a Black bear and now landsharks. But Kiffin’s shot is clearly gratuitous and ultimately self-serving. I agree with all that their visit to Oxford this year will be must-see TV.
George Armstrong Custer—geez. I wish we could edit these posts!
There may be costs to folks who cling to sloth:
https://time.com/4079635/ole-miss-state-flag-removed/
I am old enough to remember when, of all people, Tommy Tuberville told Ole Miss they needed to tone down the Confederate stuff, particularly the battle flags at the games. You know, back when Tommy was all woke and all.
What an asshole
I think the writer is Mean Gene Okerland’s grandson. Joey totally calculated all of it.