Sources — Lane Kiffin meets with Ole Miss gamers amid hypothesis

Amid hypothesis he is leaving for the Auburn head-coaching job, Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin met together with his gamers Tuesday and guaranteed them that he hasn’t accepted a job at another college, sources instructed ESPN.

Kiffin as a rule does not reply to teaching rumors, however sources instructed ESPN that he felt as if he owed it to his gamers and their dad and mom to formally deal with the scenario after a report surfaced Monday by WCBI-TV in Columbus, Mississippi, that Kiffin deliberate to step down Friday and head to Auburn. WCBI-TV additionally reported that Auburn had but to formally supply the job to anybody.

“He instructed the gamers his focus was on Mississippi State and nothing else and that any experiences on the market about his accepting one other supply have been completely false,” sources instructed ESPN.

Ole Miss faces Mississippi State on Thursday evening of their annual Egg Bowl rivalry in Oxford.

Sources instructed ESPN that Kiffin and Liberty’s Hugh Freeze are on the forefront of Auburn’s teaching search. Auburn and Alabama play Saturday of their Iron Bowl rivalry recreation in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Cadillac Williams, a former star operating again at Auburn, has led the Tigers to 2 straight wins as interim coach after changing the fired Bryan Harsin.

Kiffin, in his third season at Ole Miss, guided the Rebels to their first 10-win common season a yr in the past. Ole Miss is 8-3 this season however has misplaced three of its previous 4 video games, together with a 42-27 setback final weekend at Arkansas, a recreation by which it trailed 42-6 at one level.

Kiffin was requested afterward about being considered as Auburn’s prime goal and stated he was excited concerning the future at Ole Miss.

“So I do not find out about all that stuff on the market, No. 1 [candidate] stuff,” Kiffin instructed reporters after the Arkansas loss. “Perhaps in the event that they watched the primary half, I would not be No. 1 anymore.”