plus we did not try to save the offensive staff to keep continuity for a season. Ole Miss at least was trying to hold the staff together.
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Not letting Lane coach the playoffs was the dumbest thing I have ever seen. They tried to act like they were worried about him poaching players (as if he won't get the ones he wants anyway) and then took the OC back to let him coach in the playoffs.....the same OC that is going to be at LSU. Guess he is different than Lane and won't be trying to do that. They were just mad they got shown that they were a bottom tier SEC program and were willing to throw away the only chance they will ever have to win anything meaningful in football. Dumbass move of the century.
Not hardly. This is insane. You would have forced a guy under an 8 year contract to make a decision? Oh really? How would you have done that? Fired him and paid his 50 million dollar buyout for not answering you when you demanded it when he's already under contract? You have zero leverage and if you're worried about people poaching players, why are you allowing the OC of LSU to be in your building for the next month? Is Tulane not worried about that? How about JMU? This is all just bull sh*t. The major difference between Tulane's situation and OM's situation is Tulane doesn't have a dumba$$ AD that tried to bully their head coach and give him an "ultimatum" a month before the season ended. Most coaches would react poorly to some idiot at a lesser program being so ungrateful to what you have done for their sh*tty a$$ program.
^^^^this
The situations are different. Tulane is a not a rival of UF's and likely Tulane has few players that Sumerall will want at UF.
There is no way they could have/should have left Lame stay and coach in the playoffs, absolutely way. OM is not going to win the natty this year anyway, no matter if Lame stayed or not. Have you guys not seen the OM fan reactions?
Tell me a "name" coach they are going to get this year? Gruden or Urban are about the only two names left that would satisfy the fanbase.
From what I've been hearing for weeks is the Carter has been on a coaching search (contacting agents) in the likely event that Kiffin was leaving, this wasn't a surprise to anyone. Certainly he didn't get any interest from a big enough name that would satisfy the fanbase. Roll with Pete in 2026, if he doesn't pan out, fire him early and be first inline during the next hiring cycle.
From everything I've read, Sumrall was who Carter wanted, but with UF being open Sumrall wasn't going to commit to OM.
The situations are not different. They are fine with Charlie Weiss being in the building. You think he is not going to be doing the same thing Lane would be doing? Newsflash: if Lane wants the players at Ole Miss they are going to LSU, whether they are in the building or not. Those 2 programs are not in the same league, which is why Kiffin left. Ole Miss is mad because they do not want to face that reality and that is the core of all of the hate.
Kiffin just drug his balls all over Carter's chin.......... He looks like an absolute clown after this fiasco........
You must not be paying attention. Have you not seen fan reaction to Kiffin leaving? ADs pay attention to fan perception, Charlie wasn't the target of their anger, Kiffin was/is, there was no way they could left Kiffin be the leader of the program, and run recruiting/portal for both programs.
Again OM fan considers LSU a hated rival and they play every year. After this, they will consider LSU a bigger rival than us.
There's absolutely no connection between Tulane and UF.
Yes, I saw it. The reason their fan reaction was that way was because their AD is a dumb@$$ and handled it poorly and threw it all on Kiffin after he made a bunch of ignorant decisions. If the people that covered that program would have been fed different information that didn't frame the best coach they have ever had as a villain for taking a much much much much much better job that is nowhere close to being on the same level as Ole Miss, there would be no fan reaction. He would have been able to leave gracefully. Instead, their meathead AD decided to poke the bear and paint the best coach they will ever have as a turd just because he didn't view Ole Miss as the mecca of college football and got his fanbase to hate the guy and now here we are. Carter and that administration caused all of this.
Are you an Ole Miss fan or something? Lane could have had the 85 bears this year and he was leaving. LSU is an elite job that doesn't have to solely rely on the portal. LSU can actually use the portal as a supplemental piece and rely on home grown talent to fill a lot of the roster. Ole Miss is going to have to hit on an ultra high rate of portal guys every year which is really hard to do. The reason he's not coaching OM is because the OM AD is an idiot that threw the only chance they will ever have to win a title down the toilet. Kiffin did not want to leave prior to the playoffs being over.
He could have strung LSU out even longer. Lane's value isn't going down any time soon, no matter if he stayed at OM and went 8-4 next season. If he thought OM had a chance, and he would know, he wouldn't have made his move when he did. Even if LSU moved on, there'll be another high profile job come open in the next year or two.
OM doesn't have a shot at the natty, the only teams that can challenge TOSU (based on the most recent playoff projections): first tier - UGA, Bama, Indiana. second tier - TAMU, Oregon. That's it.
No one, but folks on this board think OM will challenge for the natty.