Lane Kiffin sends another strong sign he won't leave Ole Miss for Florida or LSU

Ole Miss football coach Lane Kiffin might have just broken his long-held ambiguity on taking up the Florida Gators or the LSU Tigers job.

Agreed, he didn't spell it out per se.

But even the littlest comment from him about the highly sensitive rumors is enough to cause an uproar, especially since he has remained notably elusive on the subject.

Instead of directly addressing the rumors, Kiffin's reply to ESPN analyst Marty Smith's opinion of him not leaving Ole Miss for any other school sent the fans scrambling to connect the dots.

"Love you (Marty Smith) like a brother," Kiffin tweeted to Smith's clip saying Kiffin has "found his peace in Mississippi."

What Marty Kiffin said about Lane Kiffin at Ole Miss

“Lane Kiffin is the prettiest girl at the dance. He is being mentioned at Florida and mentioned at LSU because he’s done such a fantastic job at Ole Miss,” Smith said to co-host Ryan McGee.

“And brother, as I look at this, for the life of me I can’t understand why Lane would leave Ole Miss.”

"And here's the key point, which you know having sat across from him very recently: He has found himself in Oxford, Mississippi. He has found peace. He has found the best version of himself."

"And there's genuinely no dollar figure that you can offer that is more valuable than the peace and the fulfilment that Lane has found personally in Oxford. So, unless he believes in his soul that he has a better opportunity to win a national title, Florida say or LSU say, I don't know why he'd leave," Marty further stated, explaining why he believes neither Florida nor LSU would be able to lure Kiffin away from Oxford.

This slight and almost indirect confirmation was all that the Ole Miss fans needed to continue standing up against the intense tweets of Florida fans asking Kiffin to come to Gainesville.

More than that, now the Rebel nation can properly focus on rooting for their team as a serious 8-1 college football playoff-contending team.