Bill Cowher destroys Lane Kiffin with a warning to future Tigers recruits
After a weekend’s worth of rumours, speculation and late night coverage, Lane Kiffin has made his next coaching destination official: LSU.
For some, mostly in Baton Rouge, this was a big win for the sport, but after tackling Ole Miss AD Keith Carter as to whether or not he can finish the rest of the season with the Rebels, it’s safe to say Kiffin burned a few bridges on the way out of Oxford.
Discussing Kiffin’s departure from Ole Miss and his new chapter at LSU, former Pittsburgh Steelers Bill Cowher blasted the journeyman head coach for how he treated his players in Oxford, warning future LSU recruits that he would only be loyal to them as long as suitable for his job prospects.
“I would just say that any player that goes to play for Lane Kiffin, just understand one thing, it’s not about the program. It’s about Lane Kiffin. Because he doesn’t care about the players,” Cowher explained to CBS Sports NFL Today. “He just went through a season, a special season. Players that he had four years with an opportunity to go to the playoffs. He decided to take them and not just leave them, which I understand, you want to do that, but now you’re going to take the offensive coaches with you and destroy the program and deplete the program. And the dreams of these young men to be there, you want to do it with, and if you want to do it. I’m not going to let you do it alone.”
Are there Ole Miss players who spent four years working toward a chance to compete for a national championship who now feel betrayed by the man who recruited them? Certainly so, even with Pete Golding locked in as the team’s new head coach, few will say the Rebels are as dangerous as they were a week ago. Still, in college football, this is the timeline, and unfortunately, hurt feelings come with the territory.
2025-12-01 22:19:00
