I didn't know that. Maybe they'd be wise to lean more into the Bayou Bengals.
FC/OT: Kiffin implies historical racism part of his motivation in leaving Ole Miss…
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I didn't know that. Maybe they'd be wise to lean more into the Bayou Bengals.
If there is a bigger 🫏 on the planet than Kiffin I would like to know who it is.
Fixed, for myself. I didn’t make the connection, had been unaware of its history.
There's a photo in the Smithsonian Museum of American History from the first half of the 20th century of several men in KKK robes riding on horseback that was taken in Rising Sun, MD. Hell, the grand dragon of MD's KKK lives in Rocky Ridge, MD and my wife and I were once approached at the stoplight in Taneytown, MD by KKK members on a recruitment drive. Pretty sobering encounter for me.
Proof it was performative--Kiffin saying it wasn't calculated means it was
Kiffin told On3 on Tuesday that his comments were not calculated.
"I really apologize if anybody at Ole Miss or in Mississippi was offended by that," Kiffin told On3. "In a four-hour interview [with Vanity Fair], I was asked a lot of questions on a lot of things, and Ole Miss has been wonderful to me and to my family. I was asked questions about the differences in recruiting, and I said a narrative that we battled there from some out-of-state Black parents and grandparents was not wanting their kid to move to Mississippi. That's a narrative that coaches have been fighting forever. It wasn't calculated by bringing it up."
Kiffin told On3 on Tuesday that his comments were not calculated.
"I really apologize if anybody at Ole Miss or in Mississippi was offended by that," Kiffin told On3. "In a four-hour interview [with Vanity Fair], I was asked a lot of questions on a lot of things, and Ole Miss has been wonderful to me and to my family. I was asked questions about the differences in recruiting, and I said a narrative that we battled there from some out-of-state Black parents and grandparents was not wanting their kid to move to Mississippi. That's a narrative that coaches have been fighting forever. It wasn't calculated by bringing it up."
I think it’s easier to recruit in Louisiana because historically those athletes seem to prefer to stay in state in higher percentages and particularly that school. That’s what has been reported here. Kids really dream of going to that school as young kids.