The aftermath of Lane Kiffin walking out on an Ole Miss team that he faithfully built in broad daylight is just starting to unfold.
Every meltdown emerging from Kiffin's very predictable move is ripping the reputation he built in the Sip to shreds.
Paul Finebaum fires off on Lane Kiffin
And, again, very predictably, Paul Finebaum went off the hardest on Kiffin. It felt like an absolute no-punches-barred round from Finebaum on ESPN's First Take.
"It’s just so typical of Lane Kiffin to do something so utterly destructive. And that's what he did. It's hard to believe, really, almost anything he said in that interview, if he wanted to coach these kids, as he put it. He could have. The simple answer is, he would have remained the Ole Miss head coach," Finebaum said.
For that matter, Kiffin could have done that a long time ago if he wanted to. The simple answer is, he didn't, despite having a College Football Playoff appearance on the line.
And that is exactly what was the most infuriating part about Kiffin's exit: he strung Ole Miss all along, and destroyed the castle he built overnight.
"It’s just so typical of Lane Kiffin to do something so utterly destructive…Lane Kiffin trying to blame others, trying to blame the adult in the room is so comical." – Paul Finebaum pic.twitter.com/QVIqAcPNBc
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) December 1, 2025
The "utterly disgraceful" thing to do, as Finebaum puts it is just him repeating his old patterns. Kiffin's history is all the proof of just how little time it takes for Kiffin to burn down all bridges.
"Lane Kiffin trying to blame others, trying to blame the adult in the room is so comical," Finebaum added, probably referencing Kiffin's tweet throwing AD Keith Carter under the bus for not letting him coach in the College Football Playoff.
Agreed, Kiffin wanted a job, and he took it. No big deal in there. But the real problem was how he handled it, right from the moment the rumors started till the moment he boarded the plane to Baton Rouge.
So, it's not accepting another job that botched Kiffin's reputation, as much as how he dealt with it did.
