Name: Lane Kiffin Could Become Highest-Paid Coach in College Football
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Description: Ole Miss, LSU, and Florida might offer Lane Kiffin over $15M, possibly setting him as the highest-paid in his field. We discuss where he could end up next.

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I think everybody at this point among that trio of Ole Miss LSU in Florida, they're all willing to make Lane Kiffin the highest paid coach in college football, and that just means beating Kirby Smart's salary at Georgia right now, which is a little over $13 million. Of course, if Kiffin gets that number, maybe Georgia extends Kirby Smart again and pops Kiffin in that range, but yes, they're willing to make some big offers, maybe even up to $15 million for Lane Kiffin. And so at this point it doesn't really. like him that the decision comes down to this school can pay me more, but maybe it's more so, hey, what are my resources at any given school around NIL or revenue sharing money or facilities or other kind of capital for other coaching staff hire that anything, everything. Where do you want to live? Do you want to live in Gainesville, Baton Rouge, Ole Miss, you know, there's, there's those are kind of the factors. I don't think his salary is a big factor at this point because everybody is willing to pay him. It also feels like all three of these schools are putting all their eggs in one basket to get him and we're not really hearing a lot about who might be a backup option. You know, if he stays at Ole Miss, where does LSU go? And, and same thing with Ole Miss, what do they do if he leaves? Like, who's even in talks of of contention here? Yeah, how, how, how crazy would that be if uh Klane Kiffin comes up on Saturday, they, they win the Egg Bowl, they're heading into the. Football playoff, he says, guess what? I'm staying here. He'd really be leaving Florida and LSU both hanging out to dry there. But hey, that's certainly a possibility at this point. We really don't know. There's there's a lot of names, especially in the group of 5 that are some head coaches there that those teams would love to keep but are probably going to get better jobs, whether that's Tulanes John Simerall or Eric Norris from North Texas who's having a really nice season. So expect those coaches to probably get some. Power for jobs. I don't know if it's going to be one of those SEC jobs. I mean, you look within the SEC. Clark Lee down at Vanderbilt, he's, he's a big name. They would love to keep him there in Nashville, but already 4 SEC teams have fired their head coaches midseason. That's 25% of the conference. If Lane Kipin moves on from Ole Miss, that's a 5th out of 16 SEC teams looking for a new head coach, and then we'll see what else happens around the league. Uh, so one of these three teams is right now in the conversation for the college football playoff, the other two are not. Is there one of these jobs that's probably more attractive than the other, and is that maybe Ole Miss? Yeah, I mean, I think you can certainly make an argument for Ole Miss, especially with the equity that Lane Kiffin has built up there in Oxford, right? He got there and they were not what they are now. He's really building them up into a national contender. Obviously the age of NIL and revenue sharing has helped that along. Now I think a lot of people will probably still tell you LSU is A more premier job than Ole Miss when it just comes to all the resources of college football, donors, boosters, recruiting in-state Louisiana versus Mississippi. But things have become so national now in college football that it's not just about the state that you're in and who you can recruit there. Because you can pay to get a player from California, from Florida, from wherever. All the good schools are doing that. So I think LSU is probably what the, the natural reaction, you would say that's the better job and even Florida has traditionally been better than Ole Miss. But to your point, Baker, Ole Miss and really any school can be a top dog now these days. Uh, let's switch gears to a school that isn't going to be looking for a new head coach, and that's Florida State. There has been a lot of talk throughout the year because of the Seminole sort of rough year so far that maybe Mike Norvell wouldn't stay at the program. He did have about a $58 million buyout. Florida State announced this last weekend, David, he's going to stay at Florida State. Why did they decide to keep him and was his buyout one of the reasons for that? I think it certainly probably was a factor, but they have some deep pockets there at Florida State too. So you look at what happened with James Franklin in Penn State, you know, a lot of these big power for traditional powerhouses are not scared to make a move. And then, you know, Mike Norvell is a guy that would probably get a job somewhere else as well. So if he had any offset language in his contract like James Franklin did, we saw that buyout go all the way down from almost $50 million to just $9 million because he signed a new $40 million contract with Virginia Tech.

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