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Lane Kiffin and Paul Finebaum have been beefing since Kiffin’s days at Tennessee and USC. After all these years the jousting between them continues.
Over a decade ago, Kiffin was called “the Miley Cyrus of college football” during a live broadcast just hours before the USC football coach was fired on the tarmac at LAX after the Trojans’ 2013 loss to Arizona State, a moment neither Kiffin nor Finebaum have forgotten about to this day.
“Really, I don’t know what you’re good at,” Kiffin said as he trolled Finebaum on Finebaum’s eponymous show. “You’ve predicted Coach (Nick) Saban was done; that didn’t happen. You basically said Miley Cyrus stinks, and she’s still going.”
Cyrus has continued to be among pop music’s most enduring stars of the past decade, and Saban not only was not done at the time of Finebaum’s prediction many years ago, but ended up winning additional national championships.
“Oh, yeah yeah. When you got me fired at USC,” Kiffin told Finebaum. “I got myself fired at USC. But you didn’t help.
“You really didn’t, but it is a true story that the athletic director (at the time, Pat Haden) and the school president were on that trip. We were playing that night, and you were on College GameDay and you had to make your big splash. And they were watching it, because I know the other person in the room that was watching it with them.
After leaving USC Kiffin became the Alabama offensive coordinator under Nick Saban before leaving to to be the head coach at Florida Atlantic.
In 2020, Kiffin took the head coaching job at Ole Miss, which went 11-2 last season and is expected to be a national championship contender in 2024.
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Author : Trojans Wire
Publish date : 2024-07-19 08:13:19
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