Lane Kiffin is ‘UNDOING YEARS AND YEARS’ of work to a ‘TARNISHED’ reputation! | The Matt Barrie Show

We've done it. We've reached the end of the regular season in college football. This is the Matt Berry show presented by Allstate. I am Matt Berry. This journey through 14 weeks has had its ups and downs, its twists, its turns, certainly its entertainment. And I want to be right up front with everybody right now as we start the Matt Berry show presented by Allstate. It is 9 56 AM Eastern Sunday morning. I was a parachute out of the Bristol studios at two thirty AM we were all on Lane Kiffin watch a la Marty Smith who's been in Oxford

since since Thanksgiving. So we are taping this at nine fifty six AM Sunday morning that's important a minute but first we get before we get to Paul Feinbaum and all of that on a crazy end of the season and regular season weekend in college football We want to do our good hands play presented by all state for the second consecutive year Texas which is

really Texas A&M's worst nightmare. They get into the SEC. They renew this historic rivalry and all Texas does two years in a row is beats them. Arch Manning, the end of the

season has been really, really good for Arch as he takes it up the middle. And Texas upsetsning. The end of the season has been really, really good for art as he takes it up the middle. And Texas upsets number

three Texas and I'm keeping them out of the SEC championship for the second consecutive year. That's the good hands play presented by all state. It is again. If

you're Texas and M. This is specifically why you didn't want Texas in the SEC because you may have had a better season, Paul Feinbaum, but at the end of the day, Texas gets the bragging rights two years in a row over the Aggies. So we'll just button that up real quick. How about Arch and Sark with the way that they've come on,

they're campaigning for the college football playoff. The loss to Florida is gonna loom large, but again, for the second consecutive year, they get the job done against Texas A&M. Yeah, I mean, Archer's played really well.

And for all the people who are hating on him and saying he's the biggest slop in college football history. They're eating their words more than those of us who were promoting him for the Heisman. The real argument now, Matt, is should Texas be in? And I made a statement yesterday that I'm already catching a lot of flack for that I thought they did.

Because they played that game at the end of August against Ohio State while others were playing nobodies. And it's the front end of the season and the back end conversation that we could have next week if Alabama doesn't win in Atlanta. It's these, everybody's got their own ideas. And ultimately, I think people call us around. Well, they're the only had, they got three losses, you can't put them in.

It doesn't matter whether some losses are in a 13 game season, some are against Ohio State. But that's just how we are and more than likely this committee will do what they've always done, the wrong thing.

My favorite part about this is everybody thought the 12 team playoff would stop the campaigning and stop the and moaning. But here we are. It's still the same thing. And to button up the Texas conversation, their resume again, they lose to number one, Ohio State played them as tough as anybody else sees. And they lose that one 14 to seven, really a slugfest. They beat number six, Oklahoma, who's going to be in the college football playoff. They beat Vanderbilt, who's at 10 and two, has an argument to be in the college football playoff. They beat Texas A&M, number three.

And so that, look, resume wise, I understand the argument, but reality wise, that loss to Florida is gonna loom large. And when you get down to it, you're right. I mean, end of the day, why schedule Ohio State? That's gonna be the argument.

They could, put it this way. If they had scheduled, oh, I don't know, let me pick on a team real quick. They scheduled Colorado or some power four team that hasn't played well, they're 10 and two,

and then we're having a 10 and two argument with them, Vanderbilt, which they would get over the head to head. You've got Miami at 10 and two, you've got Utah 10 and two, you've got Oklahoma at 10 and two, think about what that would do for Oklahoma, a tenant to Oklahoma team who's going to get in if Texas doesn't schedule Ohio State. Anyway,

it's all yeah, Oklahoma, one of its biggest best wins now is Michigan, which of course we know what happened. It's just so crazy. By the way, you mentioned the Florida-Florida State game. Not many people really cared, but Florida winning maybe helps Texas a little bit. It could hurt Alabama.

It could.

It's hard to imagine the Alabama loss against Florida State looking worse, but it does now.

Yeah, it could, but it's, look, at the end of the day, when we parse through this, like there's gonna be the Miami Notre Dame 10-2 controversy. There's gonna be so much for the committee to handle. That's for them to decide. So the penultimate rankings will come out Tuesday, and then obviously the final rankings a week from today.

All right, that concludes our on-the-field talk, because, again, we're taping this early Sunday morning. We got out of Bristol late last night, and here's where we stand with Lane Kiffin. And I'm going to go into all of the reports that we have out there right now from credible reporters that are covering this story. It is expected that Lane Kiffin is going to be the next head coach at LSU.

That's the expectation that the deal is done. But there have been constant delays. As of this morning, our Pete Thamel and Marty Smith are reporting that a meeting that was scheduled for right now, 10 a.m. Eastern, 9 a.m. Central, has now been moved to 2 p.m. Eastern and 1 p.m. Central. Okay, that's report number one of what's coming out and what has been an absolutely chaotic 48 hours. We're going to dive into all of this. I just want everyone to be right up front with what is happening. Brett McMurphy on three reporter has reported this.

He reported this last night that Kiffin is essentially demanding to finish the season while simultaneously threatening to poach Ole Miss's roster and staff if he can't. A source told McMurphy, it's unfortunately gotten even messier than expected as emotions are high.

So there's another report about what's going on with Lane Kiffin and his departure from Ole Miss. Another one from Ross Dellinger. Ross Dellinger has sent pictures of players filtering into the Manning Center, the Ole Miss football facility about 25 minutes ago. Excuse me.

And then earlier, LSU executives and Lane Kiffin's reps held a call after the Tigers game at OU to continue solidifying the deal with travel plans, planes, et cetera. That's from Ross Dellinger, Paul, another reputable reporter, and then I'll give you one more just because I want to give you the

scope of what's happening this morning. Bruce Feldman, another reputable college football reporter for the Athletics says Lane Kiffin expected to accept LSU's offer to become the Tigers next head coach.

He said to meet with this team as they reported yesterday morning. She's been very confident was going to land Kiffin and now again the latest. The meeting has been moved to the afternoon, so Paul, that's kind of a scope of what's going on. The expectation is still

Lane Kiffin's headed to LSU. Unpack it, go have at it.

Yeah, number one, we can't explain why a 9 o'clock meeting gets moved to one. It doesn't really make any sense, but it could be one person, one critical person that is otherwise detained. But it's hard to imagine this ending any way but bad. And by the way, that's usually how most relationships with Lane Kiffin end, Matt. So this is par for the course. All the people that thought we had a new Lane Kiffin in Matt. So this is par for the course. All the people that thought

we had we had a new Lane Kiffin are finding out we don't. While his team has been having a glorious season, getting ready for maybe an SEC game, ultimately the college

football playoff. He's been working overtime trying to figure out where he wants to go. Other than the current job that he has, He ruled Florida out for myriad reasons, bad vibe,

didn't like some of the things Scott Strickland had done, maybe didn't like Scott Strickland period, and is now going to LSU, which has an interim AD, we think, everybody is new, but what LSU has is an infrastructure that Lane Kiffin knows well. He's competed a million times down there.

And others have suggested to him, you know, Kiffin says, I believe it was Friday night or Saturday that he's going to call Pete Carroll and Nick Saban. Come on. He has been talking to Nick Saban all along. And most people firmly believe that Nick Saban, who once fired Lane Kiffin, as most others have, is suggesting to him or has suggested to go to LSU. I'm told that Saban said, had I gone, had I stayed there,

I would have won more national championships. That is debatable, by the way. But I think it shows that LSU is an easier place to win. There's really no other distractions, even though recruiting's national now, the portal and all that. It is just a place that most coaches,

even at O'shaughnessy could not miss winning a national championship.

Yeah, because you look at it and that's been the biggest debate over the last 24 hours, 48 hours, really actually the last two weeks, but it's just began to crystallize that Lane Kiffin was going to go to LSU and be their next head coach. The guys that I sit in studio with, EJ Manuel and Joey Galloway, that was the big debate, especially from EJ's side.

He's like, bro, why would you leave? What don't you have at Ole Miss that you're going to have at LSU? So there's a couple of ways to look at this. One, I think on its surface, and Ole Miss fans, let's just take the emotion out of it for a minute. In the last 24 to 48 hours, I know that's hard to ask, but let's just take that out of it. When you look historically, it's not a debate.

Historically, LSU is the better job. There are some that argue that LSU is a top five job in a country. One, proximity to recruits. You're the only show in town in the state of Louisiana. You don't have to fight players off in Louisiana. You have to not screw it up because they all want to come play.

There's a foundation of high school recruiting that you can build a program and the resources to go into the portal, which Lane Kiffin has proven he could do really, really well. That's the big picture. I think you talk to any coach, and I've talked to several of them off the record, they're like, LSU is no brainer, a top five job in the country. Now, with that being said, Paul, you look at the right here and the right now, and the right here and the right now is that Ole Miss is headed to the playoff.

So there are those that think, well, wait a second. He's got better players at Ole Miss now than he does at LSU. Why does he think LSU is better? My response to them, again, I don't have a dog in this fight. My response to them, Paul, is that Lane Kiffin isn't making this decision, burning things to the ground for the right here, the right now. He's doing this for the long play of the future

of sustainability at LSU. What I would say to that, number one, there's no question as we sit here this morning, LSU has been dysfunctional over the last month. That is indisputable. You've got the governor, you've got the Brian Kelly, you've got the lawsuit. That's part one. Part two, not disputable. Ole Miss seemingly lets Lane do whatever he wants

and lets him have complete control. And so in doing this, I get that Lane goes to LSU with a vast program of resources and history. But Paul in doing this, he's also giving

up the control that he had at Ole Miss, which was here's the money, we'll leave you alone. He's giving that up, he's also giving up the control that he had at Ole Miss, which was, here's the money, we'll leave you alone.

He's giving that up and he's also undoing, in my mind, years and years of work to rebuild a tarnished reputation. And we've all dealt with people that don't like Lane Kiffin, Tennessee fans, never let him forget that he walked out. By the way, for a better job, USC at the time was better than Tennessee. Probably isn't anymore, but it was in 2010 or 2011, or 2010 when he left.

So that's the hard part because I think everybody looks at Ole Miss, but think about this calculus here, Matt. And I think Lane Kiffin had to do the math. He looked at his team, very good, one loss. And it was barely a loss cuz they had the lead against Georgia. And I think this is just my thought.

He looked at the college football playoff pool and he said we could get maybe a game or two in. But I think Lane Kiffin, in his estimation, he was probably not going to win the title. Because if you thought you were a real shot to win the college football playoff title, you would wait.

You would say, you know what? I'll get Alabama one day. I'll get this job one day. But I think he decided that he wasn't going to win in his mind and he could win one at LSU, which is what all these guys are ultimately after.

And I can't come up with any other reason. He coveted the Florida job last year, you know that. Lankin is always looking to leave. I'll leave the psychology to someone else, but he's not hard to figure out. He's never satisfied even though he was never been happy. Remember that documentary that came out about a month ago?

Yeah, I don't think that's gonna get a lot of downloads in the future, do you? Because it's just, it was a well done documentary that portrayed Lane Kiffin as he was in late September, but it's now going to the trash sheet because Kiffin is undoing all that and why is he undoing it because there's Something greener across the street. It just so happened to be down the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge

okay, so There are they all right He Understands. I here's where I'm having, I'm wrestling with this. Again, I'm realistic and pretty level-headed when it comes to stuff like this,

in that I think Ole Miss and Oxford, I've been there numerous times, and I think it's a wonderful place. I really do. And I think they've got a damn good football team. And the irony of this, Paul, is I bet a lot of these players

that are playing for Ole Miss right now end up playing with an LSU on their helmet here in the next couple of days. And so the move of this, and you said something interesting, and I just don't understand why the need to torch the place on the way out. Because some of the texts I've gotten this morning and some of the people that I've talked

about this morning, or talks to this morning, is that it's gotten ugly to the point where Lane has to build a new staff, right? So what happens, Paul, when Lane's trying to build his new staff at LSU and now drags those staff members into the ultimatum with Ole Miss administrators saying, guys, you either go with him now

or you're not coaching. It's more

of like the you need to make a

decision you're either for. Think about all the tentacles in all the reads that's happening as we speak because Lane wants to do this now. This thing I believe at the end of

the day is going to get so ugly because of the timing and you know this better than anyone having covered the SEC for your the SEC. It's ugly because of

the timing and you know this

better than anyone having covered the SEC for your entire career. LSU and Ole Miss. Ole Miss people like to recognize LSU is their biggest rival. And I think people in Starkville

would would have an argument about that. But because it's these two programs, one side's going to dig in the other side's going to dig in. The other side's going to dig in. Lane's in the middle of it by his choosing, and he is now going to have to go to staff members and say, guys, let's go. We're going, and they're going to have to make a decision. And this thing

is just beginning of how ugly I believe it's going to get.

It didn't work. It didn't move. It didn't move anybody in Oxford because they had already made the decision, because they just frankly didn't trust Lane Kiffin anymore. He was their coach through the egg ball, but they didn't trust what would happen if he gets named at LSU on Sunday. And then two weeks later, coaching in Oxford, the way with full access to the Ole Miss computers, where all the secrets are, where all the recruits are, where all the contacts are,

and they didn't trust him to take all that information while he's also building and recruiting for LSU, their biggest rival. And we saw this in, what was it, 2016, Matt, when Tiffin took the Florida Atlantic job. He did a pathetic job preparing Alabama for the Washington game in the CFP.

Alabama won, but they were ineffective and Saban fired him, because he didn't trust him the week of the national championship game. It was a mistake in retrospect, because I think Kiffin, even on a bad day, would have done a better job than what Alabama had against Clemson in the game they lost on the final play. But I think it's just it's blown up again. And as somebody who really likes Lane Kiffin, I feel badly that because of greed,

because of it's better over there than it is where I am, even though my team is ranked in the top 10 and LSU is nowhere to be found, Kiffin is going to blow up yet another SEC campus for his own personal greed. Uh, and I hope he's successful and I think he will be successful. But but ultimately, he still doesn't have a championship on his resume. I saw a comparison head to head between Lane Kiffin and Gus Malzahn this morning.

It's pretty good.

Gus Malzahn's three and five lifetime against Nick Saban, the best coach of all time, Kiffin's over his career against Saban. It was just amazing. Gus Malzahn, who may or may not have a job at the end of the day as a coordinator, blows Kiffin away on a head-to-head basis.

What did he think was gonna happen? Because this notion that Ole Miss is gonna be like, you know what, you're right. Congratulations on your new job at LSU. We wish you the best in your future endeavors. And we can't wait to see you build that program back,

international power. We were so excited for you, Lane. And yes, please stay here and coach us through the playoff. Like what did he think was going to happen? I firmly believe in, again, I like Lane.

I think he's a good football mind. I think he's entertaining. I think this is ultimately what I believe. I believe that for the entire time, from the time he got the job at Ole Miss at FAU, from FAU, I think he won two Conference USA Championships while he was there, loved it in Boca, has a boat destination, but an opportunity to get back into the SEC, bring his high-flying offense, score points, and attract everyone to leave.

I never thought Ole Miss was going to be a destination for him. And then I think what happened is it lasted a little bit longer than everybody thought, and he started building a winning program and having all these historic seasons, and so everyone got attached to the fact

that this could be a real thing. The documentary comes out, he talks about his rehabilitation, sobering up and changing his life and everyone fell for it. But in no world was this gonna be the final stop for Lane Kiffin.

I also believe he wanted the Florida job bad last year. That was gonna be where he was headed. Scott Strickland screwed up yet another coaching decision. And this is why we are where we are. But the fact that Lane Kiffin had had found his Shangri-La and that this was just going to be great, going to be the last stop for Paul.

That was never going to happen. Ole Miss was always going to be a starter television market for him until he got back to network TV. It's harsh because again, I love the people of Oxford. It's a great town. That's just what this was going to be from day one.

Matt, the evidence supports what you said, uh, three years ago, Lane Kiffin came within a whisker of going to Auburn, not to relitigate that, but in many ways he wanted to go there. So his daughter convinced him at the last second he was going through a lot of crises at the time that may have played a role. Anyway, he stayed where he was.

Last year, you are 100% correct. And you mentioned you mentioned Scott Strickland. Had Scott Strickland done what he should have done instead of got caught up with the emotions, he would have fired Billy Napier at the end of last season, even though he ended on a hot streak, even though he beat Lane Kiffin and Lane Kiffin would have taken the job.

Matt, you know that I know that and everybody in the industry knows that, but it didn't happen. And the fact that Strickland stayed with Napier, who was never going to be successful, I think convinced Lane Kiffin that I don't know if I want to work for that guy if he has that poor judgment. So we flipped the script to this year, and you're right. He had battles with the Ole Miss people three or four

years ago. He didn't think they were supporting him enough, and he was able to parlay the Dallians with Auburn into finally getting what he needed. And then, you know, Jackson Dart comes in, Simmons comes in, Shambles comes in, which was just almost accidental, and a lot of other great players in the portal. And he put on a really good product

the last couple of years, but he was never happy because I don't think he ever believed in these people. He didn't believe in the athletic director and the chancellor and as much fun as he had and as many people in Oxford, Matt, who would have fought you on the street

if you dare say that he was going to ultimately leave, he proved the Dowdlers right. And there's one more thing to consider here. Two years ago, three years ago almost now, when, two years ago, I'm sorry, when Nick Saban left, Lane Kiffin was dying for the job.

You know that, everyone knows that. He never got a call. That's the job he's always wanted. He didn't want to know at issue. He wanted Alabama. And this, had Kaylin DeBoer lost that game last night and walked

out this morning to go to Penn State, which I don't think was ever going to happen. But people thought it might. Lane Kiffin would be heading to Tuscaloosa this morning.

Yeah, there was always that connectivity. And the irony and all that is, there were a couple of rumblings within the agent world that had Kaylin DeBoer lost Alabama goes nine and three. They're bouncing the SEC championship. They're bouncing the college football playoff irony in that Ole Miss would have playing for the SEC championship.

And there's no question he would have left LSU at the altar to go take the Alabama job.

If the plane was landing right over the Mississippi River into the airport there and he got the bulletin that DeBoer was leaving, he would have, he would say, hey, I'm going to get out of here and Alabama's

coming to pick me up. So thanks for the ride. I'll be happy to reimburse you. Yes. I'll pay for the gas on the way out for my other a hundred million dollar contract waiting for me in Tuscaloosa. And that Auburn stuff and irony and ironic enough that Auburn is set to announce their head coach here at some point today. We've heard names. There's the DJ Durkin story going around. We're not going to speculate there, but Auburn will have a new head coach. We suspect by the end of the day, the irony and all that Paul, I called that egg bowl, Ole Miss, Mississippi

state, which ended up being late Mike Leach's last game, which none of us knew at the time. It was all but done that he was heading to Auburn because we were in Oxford that weekend and I was talking to people figuring it out. And really the story on the table was that I'm leaving. Auburn's got better resources, but I'll stay and then the whole deal with the daughter writing the letter and all this that and the other. But to stay, I need 10, 15 million in my NIL budget. Like if I'm going to stay,

I want all of this money to get all of this talent to Ole Miss that I can't get at Auburn. And ultimately that's how that went down. And it just, and you, I think you hit it on the head. I don't know that he ever thought that Ole Miss was big enough for him. I just don't. I always believe that he thought that this was a nice entryway back into this league

and that he could probably do enough with it to get the jobs he coveted most.

And think about it. He was at the Raiders early in his career. He was at Tennessee, which is a bigger school in the football, poker game than Ole Miss. He was at Southern Cal, when Southern Cal was one of the big schools. And everyone says the same thing about Oxford.

I grew up literally right up the road from Oxford, Mississippi. It's a great place, but the expectations there are not to win the title. Like they are at Southern Cal when Kiffin was there, succeeded following Pete Carroll or at Alabama when he worked for Nick Saban. And winning nine games is great, 10, 11, amazing. But it took a lot of work to get Ole Miss to where it is. And I think Kiffin was afraid afraid you get the wrong quarterback one year and you go back

to eight and four and you're not going to have that support much longer.

Do you think I do want to turn this conversation because there's another side of this. Do you think the postponement of the team meeting to 2pm? Here's what I believe with that. I believe that that's an administrative move by Keith Carter and the Ole Miss administration simply for them to have their playoff plan ironed out. I don't think this has anything to do with Lane Kiffin wanting to do this.

I think Lane's decision is in the barn and he's got everything he wants to do, but now Ole Miss has to rally the coach. Look, the Ole Miss administration, Paul's gotta go in front of these players. They're getting ready to prepare for a playoff and say, okay guys, here's the plan, here's what we're gonna do. I think this is more from an Ole Miss administrative standpoint than it is from

a Lane Kiffin standpoint.

Yeah, right now, neither one of us are in Oxford. The people in Oxford are saying Joe Judge will be the interim. You got Pete Gold in there who is the defensive coordinator and they'll figure out a plan. And they'll have two weeks, so not going to Atlanta turned out to be a break for them.

And I also think the Ole Miss calculus is this, the longer this drags out, the more the good feelings you heard on game day yesterday from Herbstreet and Saban will start to dissipate. And this is my guess here, Matt, but the anger level and the temperature from the players will start to rise as they read more and more this morning on their phones that Lane Kiffin is going to LSU and

he's threatening. And if Lane Kiffin thinks he has their support yesterday or had their support, look back again later in the day, because those guys will be looking at whoever is going to lead them into the next game

and it won't be Lane Kiffin.

Yeah, and look, if you're Trinidad Chambliss, if you're Keewon Lacey, if you're some of these great players that we believe will follow Lane Kiffin to LSU. At this point, you gotta wonder how that's gonna happen, even though in this transient society, you can live a nomadic existence in college football now, both coach and player.

So we believe Lane Kiffin's headed to LSU. At some point, it's gonna be made official. There is another side of this, and I'll say it, I'm not scared about the repercussions of this. I am stunned that the University of Florida allows Scott Strickland to lead its athletic department.

Big picture, great. Florida basketball won a national championship. No one gives a damn about college basketball in Gainesville. It's a great story. Congratulations. You had the run with Billy Donovan.

I get it. Good for you, Gators. It's a football town. It's a Steve Spurrier town. It's an Urban Meyer town. And the fact that they've let this guy butcher this to this extent is

absolutely stunning to me.

This dude still has a job on Sunday morning. Yeah, this is where Matt, I could add to what you said or just let it ride because I don't think there's anything that can be added to what you said. I mean, I can only say this, that Strickland's decision to retain Napier last year with the enthusiasm and the glee just shows how wrong he was about the initial Billy Napier hire. It was never going to work. And John Summerall, assuming that is the coach, will only prove one thing for the University

of Florida. They were able to beat Auburn for the guy Auburn wanted. I don't know what else it proves because I don't I don't know how John Summerall fits there. He fit Auburn very well. I'm not sure anybody fits

Florida. Yeah and and if you're Summerall who's going to be a hot name every coaching cycle, do you want to get in this mess with a program that feels so spurned by Lane Kiffin? I don't think it was Lane that left Florida. It was Lane that said hell no to Scott Strickland. So if you're somewhere, I mean,

do you want to get in on this? Because they're not gonna let you do what you want. Say what you want. Florida was probably willing to actually asked to Lane Kiffin's request, but now they're going to look at some Rawls, another power or a group of five coach from the state of Louisiana,

a la Billy Napier, and they think they're going to be able to big time this guy. How's it? I like some Raul called multiple two lane games. He and I have a great relationship. He's been honest with me in the past. It's gotta be the right fit, top to bottom. I get it, Florida's a good job, but walking into this after what's been going on around him,

are they gonna demand certain coaching hires? Are they gonna try to get the GM without Summerall saying anything? I think this is is ugly for Florida as it will be for the exit of Lane at Ole Miss.

Yeah, I think some are all made based on everything we know. Made a bad decision to to leave Auburn. I think he was hurt by some of the things that were going on with Auburn. They were trying to control aspects of

things that they probably should not have. But then again, he's a group. He's a group of four coach, Matt, whatever he is, group of five. And they felt like they had the power. So he said, you know what, screw it, I'll go to Florida. But Auburn was the best fit.

Florida, I can't explain Florida anymore. You know more about that program than I do. But it has really been sad to watch. It's amazing that they beat their biggest rival by four touchdowns. I don't know about you, but it doesn't really matter to me or anybody else outside of that state, does it?

No, no. Look, the coaching, here's what we knew coming into Sunday.

It shows you what a poor decision it was by FSU to retain Nor-Nor Bell.

And then he goes out and gets blitzed by Florida. I asked EJ yesterday, who was a really, really, really good quarterback at Florida State. I said, bro, how do you get a vote of confidence from the administration to stay another year and get absolutely pummeled by a 3-8 Florida team? I mean, there's so much going on in college football right now. And that's just what the jobs we know about. Wait until midweek and the dominoes fall, cuz there's gonna be a domino out there

somewhere that we're like, my God, that job's open now, it's coming. It's just a matter of when.

No, and when Dyrdkiewicz and Clark Lee were taken off the board, it shrunk the pool, at least in the southern part of the country. And we're probably still going to have some shots. But but today it is about Lane Kiffin. And I think it's gonna be fascinating 24 to 48 hours from now how this story is viewed, Matt, because it, Matt, because there's a little bit of goodwill early Sunday morning for Lane Kiffin and Oxford.

There won't be any by the end of the day.

Paul, can we reconvene early in the week and tape another one after the dust settles? Because with what we're doing right now, by the time we meet midweek, Auburn's gonna have a coach, Arkansas's gonna have a coach,

Florida's gonna have a coach. Arkansas is going to have a coach. Florida is going to have a coach. LSU is going to have a coach. Ole Miss is going to have a coach. Penn State's going to have a coach. And then what? Like, where are these coaches coming?

Let's reconvene midweek, because this is going to be one of the biggest avalanche of drama

in the coaching world that we've ever seen? Yeah, I mean, we spent 35 minutes talking about something we think is going to happen. It's gonna be amazing to look at what did happen.

God, I love this sport. I love everything the sport has to offer Ole Miss. I love you. We love you. You've had a remarkable season. This is an historic season.

Ride with the guys that are willing to stay get into the college football playoff. There isn't any other way to give someone a big middle finger than what you have the potential to do. Lane wants to stay to coach the playoff. We believe that's the hold up, but until then, you control it because you're the team that's going to be on the field. For Paul Feinbaum, I'm Matt Barry. This is the Matt Barry Show presented by Allstate. We will come back beginning of the week to make sense of all the debris that's been left all over the country.

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