📝 Lane Kiffin is hitting the Portal rivaling Prime time.

[Kirk Van de Graaff]

He is picking up players for sure. I keep seeing his pickups, is he loosing people also? Putting a lot of stock in that portal.

 

[rammerjammer]

FSU showed it to us this year, if you do it right, you can put together a good team.

I can see the portal being a two edged sword. On one hand you are getting a proven commodity of talent that has shown they can play at the college level, but on the other hand you don't have someone you have brought along in your culture and knows the "process" (if you will) to being a winner. If you get too many high dollar egos on a team, it will be just like a NFL team full of ring-less superstars.

 

[Kirk Van de Graaff]

FSU showed it to us this year, if you do it right, you can put together a good team.

I can see the portal being a two edged sword. On one hand you are getting a proven commodity of talent that has shown they can play at the college level, but on the other hand you don't have someone you have brought along in your culture and knows the "process" (if you will) to being a winner. If you get too many high dollar egos on a team, it will be just like a NFL team full of ring-less superstars.

How he is gonna work his roster will be interesting.

 

[Justneedme81]

He's pulling lot of good players, but the chemistry and the focus, the efforts will tell us a lot next year. They will be a top 12 team playoff...

 

[TerryP]

Golding's influence on recruiting. Kiffin has never been that guy.

 

[ElephantStomp]

Golding's influence on recruiting. Kiffin has never been that guy.

You know you can’t give Golding any praise here

 

[alabama mike]

CLK is an offensive guy 100%. He has to improve his defense if he wants Ole Miss to have a chance at a larger stage with his team.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Said this in the transfer thread, but Kiffin is putting together a team that can (and should) make a run next season... Basically taking this year's team and making them even better, and this year's team would have been in the 12 team playoff format. It's an NFL approach by Kiffin, summarized by @rammerjammer, but without spending and roster restraints. They'll have the roster. They'll have a pretty favorable schedule. If Kiffin can keep it in the lines, I could easily see a top 3 SEC finish in '24. I do think, part based on assumption, part based on chatter, that Kiffin would be looking hard for a new school with a good bit of '24 success.

 

[rick4bama]

Someone said he was glad Bama isn't playing them next year

 

[PurlJam]

You know you can’t give Golding any praise here

Sure you can. "Lord of The Flies" was a helluva book.

 

[Kirk Van de Graaff]

Sure you can. "Lord of The Flies" was a helluva book.

I will help with this, Pete Golding not William. LOL

 

[bama alum]

Someone said he was glad Bama isn't playing them next year

I think that's a big draw. That's one less loss Kiffin will have next year.

 

[TerryP]

Someone said he was glad Bama isn't playing them next year

Every Ole Miss fan?

 

[TerryP]

I do think, part based on assumption, part based on chatter, that Kiffin would be looking hard for a new school with a good bit of '24 success.

When you get sober...Oxford is a place that you might want to put in the rear view mirror.

 

[PurlJam]

I will help with this, Pete Golding not William. LOL

He said Golding, right?

 

[JoshB]

FSU showed it to us this year, if you do it right, you can put together a good team.

I can see the portal being a two edged sword. On one hand you are getting a proven commodity of talent that has shown they can play at the college level, but on the other hand you don't have someone you have brought along in your culture and knows the "process" (if you will) to being a winner. If you get too many high dollar egos on a team, it will be just like a NFL team full of ring-less superstars.

IMO, you can build a good team for a season through the portal but it is impossible to sustain a program that way.

 

[JoshB]

When you get sober...Oxford is a place that you might want to put in the rear view mirror.

As in heading over to Tuscaloosa after Papa Saban adds an eighth ring and becomes football consultant emeritus?

 

[64Tide]

IMO, you can build a good team for a season through the portal but it is impossible to sustain a program that way.

Exactly, team vs program. At UA, we want a program.

 

[TerryP]

As in heading over to Tuscaloosa after Papa Saban adds an eighth ring and becomes football consultant emeritus?

No. I'm not suggesting that is the case. I am saying there are a lot of changing dynamics in his life right now. Among them, getting sober...daughter getting closer to graduation.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Kiffin always seems to land on his feet...
Gator land is a Kiffin type place....
.when they part ways with their present HC...
not an "if". More of a "when"
One more mediocre season