Joel Klatt claims Ole Miss, LSU are both offering Lane Kiffin a 'blank check'

One of the biggest storylines of the college football season has revolved around the future of polarizing Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin. He’s the hottest name in the sport.

Kiffin, who has been with the program since 2020, has the Rebels on the verge of making the College Football Playoff for the first time in school history. Meanwhile, LSU and Florida have both parted ways with their head coaches (Brian Kelly and Billy Napier) mid-season and reportedly have all eyes on Kiffin as a replacement.

Ahead of No. 7 Ole Miss‘ clash against Florida this Saturday, FOX Sports‘ Joel Klatt claims that both Ole Miss and LSU are offering Kiffin a ‘blank check’ to lead their programs into the future. Klatt also revealed that Florida is not quite in that same boat.

“There’s an old coaching adage out there that the quickest way to be defeated is to be distracted,” Klatt said. “I think that the biggest threat to Ole Miss down the stretch is distraction. And that distraction in the form of their future head coach. I don’t know where Lane Kiffin is going to end up. I know that Ole Miss is basically telling him, ‘Hey, it’s a blank check. You tell us what you need to stay here, and we will do it.’ I have that on good authority.

“I also have, on pretty good authority, that LSU is prepared to do the same thing for Lane Kiffin. They’ll basically tell him, ‘The keys are yours.’ Florida is a job that I think Lane would prefer over the other two, from what I’ve been told, and they are not quite in the same boat as Ole Miss and LSU in terms of ‘here, the sky is yours and name your price.’ There are more strings.”

Kiffin reveals job status rumors haven’t been brought up this week

This week means a little bit more to Kiffin and his program, as they fell to Florida 24-17 last season in Gainesville. Because of this, Ole Miss‘ head coach revealed during his Monday press conference that those rumors haven’t even come up this week.

“I haven’t even talked about it to them, and I think I’m pretty close to the players, where they walk by or they say something, you know, like, if it was on their mind, they’d make a joke or something,” Kiffin said. “I don’t think it is. They’re very focused on what to do.”

“Again, I said it’s a different age nowadays, like when I addressed it a couple weeks ago. I certainly don’t think it was a distraction since. We won at Oklahoma, South Carolina, and played really well last week. This is kind of the world that we’re in.”

Ole Miss has just two games remaining in its season (Florida and Mississippi State). If they can win both of those games, the Rebels are more than likely in the College Football Playoff. Distractions regarding his job status are likely the least of Kiffin’s worries right now.