{"id":401336,"date":"2025-11-24T12:56:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T12:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/401336\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T12:56:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T12:56:22","slug":"regardless-of-kiffin-decision-one-things-clear-no-fanbase-wants-eli-drinkwitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/401336\/","title":{"rendered":"Regardless Of Kiffin Decision, One Thing&#8217;s Clear: No Fanbase Wants Eli Drinkwitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn&#8217;t look like Eli Drinkwitz will be receiving a warm welcome in Gainesville or Baton Rouge.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>November 23, 2025 6:35 PM EST\u2022<strong>Updated<\/strong>November 23, 2025 6:31 PM EST<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"fb\">Facebook<\/li>\n<li class=\"tw\">Twitter<\/li>\n<li class=\"email\">Email<\/li>\n<li class=\"link\">Copy Link<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/sports\/penn-state-may-have-kickstarted-wildest-hiring-cycle-college-football-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">current coaching carousel<\/a> of the 2025 college football season, names are being tossed about like beads at Mardi Gras.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/sports\/gator-fans-turning-heat-up-lane-kiffin-ahead-tonights-matchup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lane Kiffin is the ultimate prize<\/a>, and there are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/sports\/lane-kiffin-openly-cheating-ole-miss-rebs-just-taking-it-theres-word-that\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">several teams that are in the running<\/a> to earn his services next season, but he can only end up at one school.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">This means that any athletic director worth his salt is already doing his due diligence and lining up backup plans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Options B through F probably won&#8217;t excite the fanbase quite like option A, but plenty of programs have been quite successful in having to pivot to their backup plans in the past.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">One name that keeps getting thrown around as a backup plan for whichever school ends up &#8220;whiffin&#8217; on Kiffin&#8221; is none other than Missouri Tigers head coach Eli Drinkwitz.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">I&#8217;ve made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/sports\/penn-state-eli-drinkwitz-would-james-franklin-2-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my thoughts on Eli Drinkwitz<\/a> very transparent in the past few days, but it would seem I am not alone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Both LSU and Florida are rumored to be looking at Drinkwitz as a pivot plan should Kiffin fall through, so let&#8217;s check in on their respective fanbases, shall we?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">We will start with Florida, since all the public perception seems to be that they are out of the running to land the current Ole Miss head coach.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Whether that&#8217;s true or not remains to be seen, but one thing that is quite apparent is that Gator fans will be none too pleased with their rumored backup plan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Well, that doesn&#8217;t leave a lot up to interpretation now, does it?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Let&#8217;s see how LSU fans feel about Drinkwitz.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">I know things seem to be trending towards Lane Kiffin landing in Baton Rouge, but nothing is a guarantee when you deal with Jimmy Sexton and the troll master Kiffin himself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Hmm, it doesn&#8217;t look like anyone wants Eli Drinkwitz to be their next head coach.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">It could have something to do with the fact that he&#8217;s benefited from one of the easiest SEC schedules over the last three years or that he hasn&#8217;t beaten a single team with a winning record in his conference, but I&#8217;m just spit balling here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">I can tell you this, whoever loses out on the Lane Kiffin Sweepstakes better pray their administration doesn&#8217;t hire the current head coach at Mizzou.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Because if social media is to be believed, one of these fanbases is poised to make January 6 look like a trip to the local library by comparison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It doesn&#8217;t look like Eli Drinkwitz will be receiving a warm welcome in Gainesville or Baton Rouge. PublishedNovember&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":401337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-401336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115604789908981272","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401336","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=401336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}