00:00Now, Lane Kiffin sat down with Vanity Fair.
00:03He basically said, he doesn't care if you hate him.
00:06He knows he's polarizing, does not care.
00:08And what's kind of throwing it out there,
00:10that with NIL, these players get to move around,
00:14but the coaches are getting more backlash for doing it.
00:17And that's kind of a curious thing for him.
00:22There's a lot of curious things when it comes to him.
00:26I mean, Lane drives me crazy.
00:32I respect what he is as a coach,
00:33but he drives me crazy with some of the stuff he says
00:35because he is just full of a lot of stuff
00:37that he has very obviously benefited from
00:41and has very obviously taken steps up from,
00:44and he continues to ride this wave,
00:46and he's made a very healthy salary
00:49over the course of his coaching career.
00:51But, man, he leaves no bridge unburned.
00:55I mean, he really doesn't.
00:58It's kind of crazy.
00:59I mean, didn't he just move,
01:01and the entire season was speculation about him moving?
01:06And I don't really know what backlash has he gotten from it.
01:09He just signed a bigger contract for more years
01:13at a perceived better place.
01:15And it's not the first time Lane Kiffin has moved.
01:18And coaches deserve a little backlash
01:22because you tell a player you're in it with them,
01:27and the whole time they're here, you're going to be here with them.
01:29And for years and years and years, it's been that way.
01:32I think coaches are just reaping a little bit
01:34of what they've sowed for the last 40 years
01:36of what the college football landscape has looked like.
01:39So I don't think anybody's crying a river
01:41for guys making $10 million to $12 million a year
01:46after they moved that some people maybe had a little backlash for them.
01:50Look, Kiffin, this is the wrong tree to bark for Kiffin.
01:54I do agree that players move too much these days,
01:58and I don't like players basically quitting
02:01in the middle of seasons to go move.
02:03But as long as coaches are doing something very similar,
02:08which they are, then Lane Kiffin can't cry woof.
02:12Nobody feels sorry for you.
02:14No one.
02:15No one feels sorry for Lane Kiffin
02:17or other coaches that have done it.
02:19So wait, wait, wait.
02:20Because a second ago you said you haven't seen any backlash for him.
02:24But then that sounds like backlash.
02:25Well, I'm saying, like, what backlash did Lane Kiffin really get
02:28other than, like, literally the entire year was spent
02:33talking about when he was going to leave Ole Miss.
02:36The entire year.
02:37What negative affected him?
02:40What negative effect did it have on him?
02:42No, no, no.
02:42It didn't have a negative effect on him.
02:44His deal happened.
02:45What I'm talking about is, like, he gets hate on social media.
02:47He gets hate on social media because he runs his mouth 24-7.
02:50So that's backlash.
02:52That's not backlash on him moving.
02:54That's backlash on him being a jerk.
02:55Yeah, I'm on Ali's side of that one because the backlash
02:59when he left the team during a playoff run was pretty immense.
03:05Didn't people go to the airport to boo him?
03:07Yeah.
03:07Yeah, but he left.
03:09All right.
03:10That's not – people booing you is not real backlash.
03:15So what affected his life?
03:17You think Lane Kiffin was affected that people went to the airport
03:20to boo him?
03:21Do you need a different word?
03:22Is it negative attention that he got?
03:24Is the word backlash what we hung up on here?
03:26This is a man that seeks out negative attention.
03:29Everything he does is trolling people.
03:32I don't think there's – yeah, that's not –
03:33I don't think that's – to me, that's not part of the conversation.
03:36I think both he can seek it out and we can understand that he got it.
03:39I want to see – I want to know how he was affected by attention
03:43that he seeks out in regular day life because he left Ole Miss early.
03:48I want to know –
03:48I mean, he was essentially removed from the job.
03:53And I'm sure that – look, no matter what you think of him as a man,
03:56I'm sure that that kind of sucked in the moment that he was literally being made
04:00to like, hey, you know that I'm going to leave here.
04:02I'd like to coach his team to the end of the year, in my understanding.
04:04And they were like, no, absolutely not.
04:06You don't get the choice to stay a part of a team that you –
04:09when you've joined another –
04:10I'm not saying it wasn't the right thing.
04:12You asked how it negatively affected him, and I said in that moment,
04:15but I do believe that negatively impacts him in that moment.
04:18But it was his decision.
04:18If he wanted to be there, he would still be there.
04:20Like, I can't feel sorry for you if you bell on someone and say,
04:24but I want to stay until I'm done with this.
04:26That's not your choice anymore.
04:27Nobody is asking you to feel sorry for him.
04:29We're just trying to point out that there was a negative impact on him
04:33because he wanted to go this way, and they said, no, you're going to go that way.
04:38So you made a decision where you took your control out of it,
04:43and then you didn't get to control the situation, and that's backlash is what he's saying.
04:48Again, I can't speak for her, but I'm –
04:50I'm not saying Allison.
04:51I'm just saying that that –
04:52I think what both of us are saying is it's not that it's not warranted
04:55and not that he's not a hypocrite for doing it,
04:57but to say that there's not any backlash to Lane Kiffin last year,
05:00I think that's a little bit –
05:01But the players get the same –
05:02But hold on.
05:02The players are getting the same backlash.
05:04If they're –
05:06Nobody's saying that.
05:07I didn't say that.
05:07But that's what he said.
05:08He said that – that's what his statement is.
05:10He said they're not judged as critically.
05:13That is absolutely false.
05:15They are just –
05:17And I'm not –
05:18And I know you're not saying this,
05:20so I'm taking my angst towards Lane Kiffin's comments,
05:24but players are absolutely criticized when they leave during a playoff run.
05:30This is Lane Kiffin just throwing out trash
05:34and hoping people are going to just gobble it up like it's real.
05:38I also want to point out nothing makes you a bigger target,
05:40and I appreciate people that get on the healthy trail,
05:43but when you are a health fanatic and you promote it nonstop,
05:48there's nothing more annoying.
05:49There's nothing more annoying than someone being like,
05:51oh, I had under 1,500 calories today or got my workout in this morning.
05:56Or you've watched that person eat like just garbage,
05:59and then all of a sudden they're like, you know, that's not really good for you.
06:01Oh, now you're telling me what's good for me?
06:04I'm with you on that.
06:05But I am all about someone seeking their own health journey.
06:09So good for you, Lane.
06:10I'm glad you're on it.
06:11I'll be on my own journey over here.
06:13Yeah, I just, I can't feel sorry for someone who literally puts every negative spotlight on himself,
06:21and then I can't feel sorry for coaches who have literally made millions upon millions of dollars
06:28of the exact system that is in,
06:30and then want to criticize and say, well, the players should receive the same backlash.
06:34They've been doing it for like three years.
06:36I don't like either, I don't like either one of them.
06:41But don't, don't do something and then cry woof.
06:44But don't do something and cryICIA
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