{"id":329998,"date":"2025-10-24T20:59:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T20:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/329998\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T20:59:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T20:59:13","slug":"report-lane-kiffin-plans-to-address-florida-job-rumors-with-ole-miss-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/329998\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Lane Kiffin plans to address Florida job rumors with Ole Miss players"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ole Miss<\/a><\/strong> head coach Lane Kiffin<\/a><\/strong> once again finds himself in the thick of a red-hot coaching carousel, especially after Florida<\/a><\/strong> formally fired now-former head coach Billy Napier<\/a><\/strong> on Sunday. By most accounts, Kiffin is the overwhelming favorite among Gators power brokers and fans to replace Napier.<\/p>\n

Of course, the sixth-year Rebels coach remains gainfully employed in Oxford as Kiffin prepares to lead No. 8 Ole Miss<\/strong> (6-1, 3-1 SEC) into a Top 15 SEC showdown at No. 13 Oklahoma<\/a><\/strong> (6-1, 2-1 SEC) at 12 pm ET Saturday in Norman. Kiffin addressed rampant speculation about his future with ESPN sideline reporter Molly McGrath<\/strong> earlier Friday and said he will do the same with his team later today.<\/p>\n

\u201cLane Kiffin told me he usually doesn\u2019t address those kind of coaching rumors in-season, because there\u2019s so much more football to play, and there\u2019s so many bigger things to focus on. But he\u2019s actually going to do things differently today in their team meeting \u2013 he is going to address those (Florida) rumors with his players,\u201d McGrath said Friday afternoon during a 2 pm ET hit on ESPN\u2018s SportsCenter. \u201cHe\u2019s going to talk to them about it and say: \u2018Hey, this is what happens when you win. This is a compliment to our players, our staff and our entire program.\u2019 He wants to talk to his players about it because there\u2019s so many new guys on their team this year that haven\u2019t dealt with it before.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, that\u2019s hardly a definitive rebuke of the rampant speculation about his future in Oxford. That said, Kiffin made it clear to McGrath that any decision would involve his entire family.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I pressed him about the leverage that these job openings create for him, he said: \u2018I\u2019m never going to make decisions based on money, I\u2019m going to make decisions based on everyday happiness.\u2019 And you can tell he\u2019s really trying to prioritize his family and his kids in this one,\u201d McGrath continued. \u201cBut I will say, Kiffin really idolizes legendary former Gators coach Steve Spurrier<\/a><\/strong>. And when I covered Ole Miss\u2019 game at Florida last year, Kiffin pulled me aside and said this is a really special place for me and my family. It\u2019s where he had his first date with his children\u2019s mother, so (Gainesville) is a nostalgic place for the Kiffin family.<\/p>\n

\u201cPerhaps that will play a role into it. But right now they\u2019re just focusing on Ole Miss and the Rebels, and their players telling me they wouldn\u2019t be able to tell (if Kiffin was distracted), so it seems as if Kiffin is in Oxford to stay as far as his communication with them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin once again finds himself in the thick of a red-hot coaching carousel,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":329999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1318,151573,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-329998","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-lane-kiffin-94-jefferson","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-football","12":"tag-ncaafootball","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115431156389686593","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}