{"id":428687,"date":"2025-12-06T11:32:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T11:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/428687\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T11:32:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T11:32:12","slug":"greg-sankey-breaks-down-parts-of-lane-kiffins-move-to-lsu-impact-of-college-football-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/428687\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Sankey breaks down ‘parts’ of Lane Kiffin’s move to LSU, impact of college football calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the dust settles on Lane Kiffin\u2019s<\/a><\/strong> move from Ole Miss<\/a><\/strong> to LSU<\/a><\/strong>, the college football calendar is still part of the discussion. Kiffin left the Rebels following the Egg Bowl<\/strong>, but they are still in position to host a first-round game in the College Football Playoff<\/a><\/strong> this month.<\/p>\n

SEC commissioner Greg Sankey<\/strong> pointed out Kiffin isn\u2019t the first coach to leave one SEC school for another. Dan Mullen<\/a><\/strong> went from Mississippi State<\/a><\/strong> to Florida<\/a><\/strong> and Tommy Tuberville<\/strong> went from Ole Miss to Auburn<\/a><\/strong>, as Sankey noted. But he also pointed out the difference in the calendar from past moves.<\/p>\n

Speaking with Paul Finebaum<\/strong> on SEC Network, Sankey acknowledged the amount of interest in Kiffin\u2019s move to LSU as all eyes turned to his decision. But with National Signing Day<\/strong> now in December, Sankey noted the need for programs to speed up coaching searches. That\u2019s one of the ways the calendar impacts those situations.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s look at the parts,\u201d Sankey said on The Paul Finebaum Show. \u201cThis is not the first time we\u2019ve had a coach move from one SEC member to another. It\u2019s Lane. That kind of lingered for a long time, so it became big news consistently. But it\u2019s happened. \u2026 This one, though, because of the season that Ole Miss had, was obviously drawing more interest and a lot of questions. So let\u2019s start with, why is the timing the way it is? Remember when Nick [Saban] was hired at Alabama years ago, that was not until the Monday of the national championship game. So it hasn\u2019t always been this way.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat are the big factors? One of the big factors is we moved up Signing Day into December. So you have to have a coach in place, right? Well, let\u2019s change the signing date. That would be the one big step to say, let\u2019s just go back to February and take some of that pressure off. And then, how can we move the transfer portal? Those are things that we control. And we ought to control those.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kiffin\u2019s decision came just three days before the Early Signing Period began, leaving Ole Miss after an 11-1 record in the regular season \u2013 the Rebels\u2019 first such season. His departure created plenty of discussion about the calendar and why it took place with his team in the race for a national championship. <\/p>\n

During his introductory press conference, Lane Kiffin also called for an NFL-like calendar down the road. In the meantime, he said there weren\u2019t many different ways<\/strong><\/a> to go about the last week.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, the last 48 hours, in a lot of ways, sucked,\u201d Kiffin\u00a0said<\/a>. \u201cThe only way I can describe it, (is that) it sucked for a lot of people. There was no way to possibly do it, in my opinion, any better than we did (from a) timing standpoint, because it\u2019s a bad scheduling system of how it\u2019s set up. Eventually, hopefully it gets like the NFL where can\u2019t do that in the season and don\u2019t have to make those decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the dust settles on Lane Kiffin\u2019s move from Ole Miss to LSU, the college football calendar is…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":428688,"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-428687","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":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428687","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=428687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}