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Called3rdstrikedawg

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Heard from a Florida fan that Ole Miss and Lane Kiffin are working on an extension and raise to keep him in Oxford long term.

Florida was definitely interested in both Cignetti and Kiffin according to this UF fan.
 
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Irondawg

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They’d be smart to try and lock him down with a larger buyout.

Lane is in control of his own destiny here.
 

Faustdog

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I remember hearing he negotiated a really low buyout in his current contract. That's what makes me think he still might bounce when the right opportunity comes.

If they work a new deal with a huge buyout I might put more stock in the talk of him remaining a confederate.
 

3407Dewey

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I hope they give him a contract so big and put in a huge buyout so that it puts them in a financial bind. And then they can't buy the players he needs, they'll suck and OM will want to fire him and can't afford his buyout

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8dog

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They are gonna have to pay him more than what cignetti is getting paid.

the number I’ve heard that Florida will offer is 8 years 88 million with signicant NIL guarantees to football and other privileges
He makes $9 mill now at OM so that’s not really a lucrative. Deal especially since OM is gonna match anyone. I think Bama, LSU, Miami and Texas are about the only ones he would leave for.
 

Willow Grove Dawg

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UF is dumpster fire, he's not going there, although I'm sure his agent is using the UF job as a negotiating tactic.
UF is a dumpster fire CURRENTLY, but Florida has won 3 national championships in the last 30 years & been to 13 SECCG since 1992 under 4 different head coaches plus they have won 3 men's basketball national championships in the last 20ish years along with a baseball natty. The Athletic Department has lots of resources and they are in a state that continues to grow. Finally there is a limit to how much longer the shadow of Jeremy Foley (72 years old) will dominate the athletic department along with Steve Spurrier (80 yrs old) the football program.

Florida football is one of the top 10ish jobs in the country. Also remember their new permanent opponents are Georgia, Kentucky, & USCE which is a much easier annual path than most of the SEC will have to navigate.
 
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greenbean.sixpack

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He makes $9 mill now at OM so that’s not really a lucrative. Deal especially since OM is gonna match anyone. I think Bama, LSU, Miami and Texas are about the only ones he would leave for.
Yuup, add in UGA and TOSU (but those jobs aren't coming open).
 

eckie1

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I’ve not heard from anyone but I guarantee that ole miss is working on an extension. Not sure id consider this a rumor.
They’d be crazy not to. This is the only above average hire they’ve made since Tuberville (maybe Cutcliffe).

Florida offers a much easier path to winning big, but he’s done a lot at a trash program. His “win the press conference” persona fits right in at that place. It won’t last forever, but they’re riding an all-time high right now and it would be about like Mullens decision to leave when his best days were ahead. And he’s proven, somehow, to be a much lesser ungrateful POS than Muller was when he was here.
 

POTUS

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UF is a dumpster fire CURRENTLY, but Florida has won 3 national championships in the last 30 years & been to 13 SECCG since 1992 under 4 different head coaches plus they have won 3 men's basketball national championships in the last 20ish years along with a baseball natty. The Athletic Department has lots of resources and they are in a state that continues to grow. Finally there is a limit to how much longer the shadow of Jeremy Foley (72 years old) will dominate the athletic department along with Steve Spurrier (80 yrs old) the football program.

Florida football is one of the top 10ish jobs in the country. Also remember their new permanent opponents are Georgia, Kentucky, & USCE which is a much easier annual path than most of the SEC will have to navigate.
All that history was pre-NIL. The game has fundamentally changed. Quit using pre-NIL, pre-Portal logic. UF has never even made the CFP. All their success was in the old system. Indiana and Texas Tech are real players in this new world. Think about that for a second, it’s not 2008 anymore.
 

ClangaCrusader1

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I’ve not heard from anyone but I guarantee that ole miss is working on an extension. Not sure id consider this a rumor.
My thought until something changes drastically is , I believe he will end up signing a massive extension but with another small buyout. I think he is wanting LSU, bama , Texas

if LSU spirals and fires Brian Kelly, then it’s all hands on deck for ole miss cause I’d bet money he would be in Baton Rouge before the sun set that day.
 

TheDawg-Pound

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Florida =no state tax. Longer contract. This isn't a comparison to Mississippi. It's only a matter of is that where he wants to be.
 

patdog

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All that history was pre-NIL. The game has fundamentally changed. Quit using pre-NIL, pre-Portal logic. UF has never even made the CFP. All their success was in the old system. Indiana and Texas Tech are real players in this new world. Think about that for a second, it’s not 2008 anymore.
Pretty sure NIL is NOT one of Floridas problems.
 

POTUS

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Pretty sure NIL is NOT one of Floridas problems.
Sure, but the idea that you need to go to a “Top 10” job to win big is dying. You can make the playoff in a lot of places now that you couldn’t a few years ago. I mean Texas Tech is much closer to the playoff than UF. So rattling off their BCS prowess isn’t really a selling point.
 
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Drebin

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All that history was pre-NIL. The game has fundamentally changed. Quit using pre-NIL, pre-Portal logic. UF has never even made the CFP. All their success was in the old system. Indiana and Texas Tech are real players in this new world. Think about that for a second, it’s not 2008 anymore.
Yeah, I don't agree with this. Prestige matters and Florida has been a consistently good program. Recent nattys. There's no reason to think they wouldn't be big players in NIL. They just need the right guy at the helm.
 
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Drebin

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Sure, but the idea that you need to go to a “Top 10” job to win big is dying. You can make the playoff in a lot of places now that you couldn’t a few years ago. I mean Texas Tech is much closer to the playoff than UF. So rattling off their BCS prowess isn’t really a selling point.
What you mean is that Texas Tech is closer to making the playoff and getting the shlt kicked out of them in the quarterfinals. There are serious contenders and unserious contenders that will make the playoff every year.
 
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POTUS

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What you mean is that Texas Tech is closer to making the playoff and getting the shlt kicked out of them in the quarterfinals. There are serious contenders and unserious contenders that will make the playoff every year.
This feels like cope because our rival is gonna make it. If we were making the playoff no one here would be talking like this. Yes, the first round was lopsided in the first year of the playoff. That’s too small a sample size to make sweeping declarations.
 

Drebin

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This feels like cope because our rival is gonna make it. If we were making the playoff no one here would be talking like this. Yes, the first round was lopsided in the first year of the playoff. That’s too small a sample size to make sweeping declarations.
Why would you put words in my mouth? I don't care whether Ole Miss makes it or not. I'm not one of those guys.

If we were making the playoff we would have earned it because we played an SEC schedule. When you get a G5 school, Arizona State, and SMU in the playoff, you know that all the teams in there aren't the best teams in the country.

Take Arizona State last year. They made the playoff but nobody took them seriously as a threat to win a natty. Every team from the SEC who went was a realistic threat though.
 

POTUS

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Why would you put words in my mouth? I don't care whether Ole Miss makes it or not. I'm not one of those guys.

If we were making the playoff we would have earned it because we played an SEC schedule. When you get a G5 school, Arizona State, and SMU in the playoff, you know that all the teams in there aren't the best teams in the country.

Take Arizona State last year. They made the playoff but nobody took them seriously as a threat to win a natty. Every team from the SEC who went was a realistic threat though.
I don’t know man. ASU certainly looked like they belonged when they took Texas to the brink.
 
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RocketDawg

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He makes $9 mill now at OM so that’s not really a lucrative. Deal especially since OM is gonna match anyone. I think Bama, LSU, Miami and Texas are about the only ones he would leave for.
Correct, but Florida is also pretty well respected from a sports standpoint. "Only" a $2M raise, something over 20%. :) Maybe Florida needs to sweeten the deal, offer him 13 or 14, not mention better weather, especially in the winter, a larger town but not huge, a more storied program, etc. Admittedly, though - Kiffin has sort of a similar personality as OM's students and supporters.

Remember - both Dan and his wife allegedly loved Starkville, but wouldn't take a substantial raise to stay, and left at the drop of a hat. So you really never know what Kiffin will do.
 

anon1768925248

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Ole Miss being good is the only thing that motivates our boosters, so that is the silver lining to them having Kiffin. That being said, I expect Florida to go all in for him. It is a better job than Ole Miss but who knows what Kiffin will do. That documentary looked like a way to show elite jobs that he has cleaned his act up and can handle a big job. But maybe his daughter will make another slide show.
 

dawgstudent

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which the longer he doesn't sign - the more pressure it creates. I don't get why he would come out with a public statement about it unless it's imminent.

 

RocketDawg

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Florida =no state tax. Longer contract. This isn't a comparison to Mississippi. It's only a matter of is that where he wants to be.
Just a guess, but isn't Kiffin one of, maybe the, highest salaried person in Mississippi? Prestige from that standpoint. He's certainly one of the best known.
 

TheDawg-Pound

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Sure, but the idea that you need to go to a “Top 10” job to win big is dying. You can make the playoff in a lot of places now that you couldn’t a few years ago. I mean Texas Tech is much closer to the playoff than UF. So rattling off their BCS prowess isn’t really a selling point.
TT isn't in the SEC. Harder to make it in the sec not being a top then than when in BIG 12
 

RocketDawg

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My thought until something changes drastically is , I believe he will end up signing a massive extension but with another small buyout. I think he is wanting LSU, bama , Texas

if LSU spirals and fires Brian Kelly, then it’s all hands on deck for ole miss cause I’d bet money he would be in Baton Rouge before the sun set that day.
Gainesville is a much more desirable place to live than Baton Rouge, in my opinion.
 

Barkman Turner Overdrive

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Why would you put words in my mouth? I don't care whether Ole Miss makes it or not. I'm not one of those guys.

If we were making the playoff we would have earned it because we played an SEC schedule. When you get a G5 school, Arizona State, and SMU in the playoff, you know that all the teams in there aren't the best teams in the country.

Take Arizona State last year. They made the playoff but nobody took them seriously as a threat to win a natty. Every team from the SEC who went was a realistic threat though.
Tennessee was never a realistic threat.