The Lane Kiffin thing just really irks me [View all]

As someone who is a fan of a team other than Ole Miss or LSU, I can say I am totally incensed by what Lane Kiffin has pulled in leaving the Rebels for the Tigers.

Just how cutthroat of a business is college sports and professional sports? Why in the absolute world would you build up a team into the playoffs, at the very least a chance to win the national championship, only to leave them for a conference rival, not even after the playoffs, but before?

Don’t give me this money nonsense because you’ve got coaches who are the highest paid public employees in an entire state and someone who’s coaching an SEC football program sure isn’t struggling to pay next month’s bills.

Maybe I don’t get it. But I know if I was one of the 12 playoff coaches this year, you’re not luring me away until after the playoffs, if even at all. Yes, it’s a business, but to forego the opportunity to be a national championship-winning coach to go to a rival school in the conference just boggles the mind, and it means turning your back on young men you’ve demanded and asked so much of when they need you the most and they’ve given your their all. Then he goes and makes it all about him.

To leave, even for a rival, is one thing. Lane Kiffin left in the most bush league way. He just became the most unlikeable coach in the sport, and as someone who roots for Florida State, this makes me hope Ole Miss wins the natty just for this.