LSU Ready to Make Lane Kiffin One of College Football’s Highest-Paid Coaches

Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin’s name remains in the rumor mill despite the team’s current College Football Playoff push.

Kiffin is reportedly a top target for LSU and Florida, both of whom fired their head coaches in the middle of the season and are looking for a new figurehead to lead their programs.

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LSU is at the top of the list, namely due to its outsized monetary resources and strong recruiting pipeline. Florida, on the other hand, has similar potential, but it has been years since it last challenged for a National Title.

Kiffin has rebuilt Ole Miss into an SEC powerhouse that will make the playoffs barring a total implosion. While he has made the team into a dynamo, there is only so much NIL money and the tools the school has to attract top talent.

Thus, as LSU and Florida come knocking, the former USC head coach is left mulling his contractual options.

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Per College Football insider Ross Dellenger of Yahoo Sports, Kiffin is in line for a massive payday from one of the three interested programs, including his current team.

“It is believed that all three programs stand to pay him at least $11 million annually in deals that stretch at least six years,” Dellenger wrote on Yahoo Sports.

“In Baton Rouge, Kiffin’s contract would likely make him, at the very least, tied with the highest-paid coach in the country, Georgia’s Kirby Smart at $13 million. That also includes around a $30 million guarantee for the football roster (revenue-share + NIL).”

Ole Miss, while wanting Kiffin to stay and finish out his rebuild, is not going to sit idly by and be yo-yoed by its head coach. Instead, multiple reports indicate that it has given him an ultimatum, forcing him to decide by the season finale against Mississippi State.

Kiffin has disputed the report, but the message from the organization is clear: they want to know sooner rather than later to prepare and make the appropriate decisions.

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