Ole Miss football coach Lane Kiffin: ‘We’re a professional sport’

Ross Dellenger of Sports Illustrated has an interesting interview with Ole Miss Coach Lane Kiffin about NIL and the current state of college football.

It’s Lane Kiffin. Of course it’s interesting.

Three quotes from the interview:

▪ “We’re a professional sport and they are professional players.”

▪ “You take a 17-year-old who, a lot of them, don’t come from money and family doesn’t come from money … if any person tells you that their NIL is not the No. 1 thing … take 100 of them and ask about the No. 1 thing that’s going to make the decision … it’s not the size of the stadium, not the head coach, not the campus or the conference, the No. 1 thing will be money.”

▪ “It’s totally changed recruiting. I joke all the time about it. Facilities and all that. Go ahead and build facilities and these great weight rooms and training rooms, but you ain’t gonna have any good players in them if you don’t have NIL money. I don’t care who the coach is or how hard you recruit, that is not going to win over money.”

Read the entire interview here.

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