July 14, 2025 • 13 mins
We hear from Ole Miss head Football coach Lane Kiffin
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Glad to have you with us.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Thanks again to Mike Hardball Harts for joining us during
the first part of the program. Mike will be on
tomorrow morning with Mark Henry the World's Strongest Band. That's
the morning kickoff seven am to nine am here on
thirteen hundred the Zone. Hey, I want to take the
opportunity while I have right now before we hear from
Lane Kiffin and tell you that you could you could
(00:29):
win a pair of tickets to see Ghost August fourteenth
of Moody Center. Not the movie with was it the
late Patrick Swayze?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
And to me Moore, is that the you know the
scene where they're making the what is that the pottery?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Yeah? The pottery? Yeah? That stayed with you. Huh. I've
never seen that. I've just heard about it.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Okay, all right, Yeah you look this up for us earlier.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Ghost is a band.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Yeah, I think it's heavy metal belief. Yeah, you're right. Okay.
So we've got a pair of tickets we're gonna give away.
And the way you do this, like we said, the
way you do it to enter is to download the
iHeart Radio app. If you haven't already done it, you
certainly do it and by the way, use it for
your presets. It makes things a lot easier to listen
to this program there on the presets. So you download
(01:22):
the iHeart Radio app, you search AM thirteen under the
zone and then there's a little red button with a
white microphone, and you tap it and you leave us
a voice message up to thirty seconds.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
You don't even have to take that long.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Just say that's our talk back feature, and you say, hey,
I heard on the Craigway Show I could win a
pair of tickets to see Ghost.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
So here's the keyword.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
There's a keyword every week, every day, all five days
this week. So today's keyword boom, as in a ghost
with boo. Now you've been talking to our promotion staff
about better keywords, haven't you.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Is boo not good? At least it's different? Well, it
is different, I'll give you that.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I mean, last week we're giving out Jason Alden tickets. Yeah,
and the keyword was yeeha oh boy.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Okay, Anyway, the keyword today is boo. So go to
AM thirteen hundred zone on the iHeartRadio app, tap that
little red button with a white microphone, you leave us
a message. You can be five six seconds. You can say, hey,
I want to be in the drawing. I heard on
the Craigway Show. Today's keyword is boo. You do that,
You're in the drawing. It's that simple, all right, let's
(02:33):
uh as we move forward here on SEC Football Media Days.
The four programs who were taking part in this today
were South Carolina, LSU, Vanderbilt, and Ole Miss. Just a
few minutes ago, Lane Kiffin finished up his initial address
(02:55):
to the media gathered here and here it is the
comments from the head coach of the Old Miss Bulls.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Link the honored to be here. You know, I don't
take this for granted.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
You know, there's only sixteen of these spots that we
get to hold and come up here, so I have
a lot of appreciation for that. The Commissioner has been phenomenal,
he just mentioned going into sixth year, and he's been
great to us, Keith Carter and Chancellor Boyce hiring us
(03:29):
five and a half years ago, and the Old Miss
fans in Oxford and how as he mentioned a lot
of personal things there and how awesome it's been. It's
really been an amazing five years personally and professionally there
in Oxford and I reflect on that, like life with
(03:51):
so many good things of gains and losses, you know,
with with my daughter Landry being there and now Knox
and Laila living there, really is a he mentioned the
kind of broke it all down, my brother and his
four kids living there, you know, it's really amazing. And
then with some losses there now losing both parents in
(04:13):
the last year has been very challenging.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
But you know, just thinking on the way.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Over here, you know about my mother and how grateful
I ahim to her, and it reminds me of coaches
wives and tall coaches wives in all levels, how you
really are the glue that holds everything together in these
families with coaches like my dad that worked so much
and the moms doing everything at home. And so just
(04:44):
really grateful to both my parents for that and feel like,
you know, they spent a lot of years and spent
a lot of time, you know, taking us to a
certain level. I think when you're now experiencing that, which
is strange of losing both parents, that you're really the
highest on the family tree now of what's left and.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
What that means about.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
You know, they go next door and I don't think
they leave you, I think they go next door and
they allow you to go to the next level. And
just coming off of you know, a couple of days.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
With family and.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
With Chris's kids, and you know, whether that was dancing
with my nieces at Morgan Wallen or then yesterday out
on the boat and seeing all the cousins playing with
each other, and how proud my parents would be of that,
and just really really cool to see things through a
different lens now and awesome that there's so many Kiffens
(05:43):
in Oxford to experience everything together. You know where I
think of our program, where we're at, and you know,
the last four seasons there, you know, since COVID, and
three of those four seasons the top twelve finishes. Well,
even the last fifty five years of Old Miss there's
(06:07):
been four top twelve finishes, so three of those to
be in the last four years, one in the previous
fifty one years. I think says a lot.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
About what we've been able to do.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Through the staff, through the players, through everybody involved, especially
the leadership above me over that time. The third most
SEC wins of all sixteen SEC teams. That's helped us tremendously.
You know, when we got there at Old miss you know,
we had to sell to recruits, Hey, when you come here,
(06:41):
this is what it's going to look like.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
We're gonna win.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
We're going to have first round picks, We're going to
have the most players drafted in school history.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
We're gonna.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Win eleven games in a season, win twenty one games
in the last two seasons. And so now that we've
done that, we've seen that impact, whether that's in transfers
coming in our high school kids that they've been able
to see that, and especially with the Mississippi kids to
stay home, you knowing that they can achieve and get
all these things that maybe previously they needed to look
(07:12):
to leave for. Okay, it's twenty twenty five team. I
think we have a lot of really good players coming back.
We added a lot through the portal, and it's been
a very competitive offseason. I think that the groundwork of
these last players over the last few years, what they've
(07:34):
laid and what they taught the players has been very beneficial.
Like we say in recruiting, you know, you get what
you see with us, there's not fluff and recruiting. We
don't put on this show. And then all of a sudden,
they get there and it's a different thing. And I
think that that's really helped us over time, for us
(07:56):
not to have many kids that are playing leave and
going to the port and for other kids to come
to us because they know that.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
And a lot of that.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Is to our culture and to our staff. So to
be able to keep our entire staff from last year
was very critical. That's not been the case a lot
of times in our years at Old MISF had to
replace a lot of really good coaches. I think we've
done a good job of putting together this roster working
(08:26):
within this cap. You know, if you go back to
retention of last year's players and then the portal guys
in December January, you know, we went into that operating
under this cap because you know, we were told this.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Was the settlement was most likely going to get approved
and how that would work.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
So you know, we get a lot of questions like
what's it like now, Well, we've been operating, we have
under this cap guidelines of what was coming and what
it was going to look like. So I think we've
done a really good job with that. It's obviously means
you can't as many players as you like at times
because you have to because.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
You have a budget.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
So we're obviously hopeful that you know that that'll be
rewarded by doing that. I think it's obvious people aren't
staying within that cap. So I think the whole thing
will be what what does that look like? And that's
what we don't know. You know, what does it look
like when you don't and what are the punishments for that?
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Do you win? And then that comes later. So that's
remained to be seen.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
But I've already got the questions about the cap and
what that what is that like now having to do that.
We've been doing that for a while, operating on that.
Very excited about this schedule coming up. You know, we
play nine games in Mississippi, so that's awesome for our fans.
(09:53):
Basically to have nine home games is amazing and for
Oxford to have have that for the businesses there is great.
So be a very competitive schedule and a lot of
work to do with all these new players in the meantime.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Yeah, so.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
There's the comments of Lane Kiffin, the head coach.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
I don't want did he say they have nine home games?
Nine for the hole miss Rebels.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
I have the pocket schedule out here, and that's crazy,
consider in Texas goes with three months without a home
game this year that they.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Did month of October. Month of October.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
They don't have on one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
eight three.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
I thought he said nine.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Georgia State, Arkansas, LSU to Lane. That's four, Washington State five,
South Carolina six, Citadel seven.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Florida eight, egg Bowlton not at home.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
M hm no, no, I'm South Carolina.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Sorry this one? That is nine? Okay, wow wow nine.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
From so they have they have one road game Kentucky
week two, but the first seven weeks of the season,
six of the seven they play at home. Wow, including
LSU at home, which is huge. Kentucky sorry, Arkansas at home,
to Land at home, Washington State at home. That's a
really weird mid season game. I guess because they play
(11:24):
Kentucky week two is why they're playing the Cougars of
Wazoo State.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Well in Washington State, as we know, also is in
that situation. They're kind of in that nether world right now.
They're in purgatory until the completely ramped up, new and
revised I won't necessarily say improved PAC twelve gets underway.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
The following year. So I guess that kind of makes sense.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
The state conference because every college in the pact, the
new PAC twelve is at State.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
That's right at State in the monitors except for Gonzach
them and that's basketball only. So you're right, Uh, that's
that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Uh okay, all right? Coming up?
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Yeah, look at that Georgia State, Arkansas, Tulane, l s U,
Washington State, South Carolina, Citadel Forta. I'm only counting eight here.
I thought he said nine. Anyway, I'm counting yeah, because
they started at Kentucky, at Georgia, at Oklahoma and a
Mississippi State.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Well, all those home games is why a lot of
people have ole Miss as kind of the sneaky dark
horse in the conference. But I think every season ole
Miss always is the sneaker, the sneaky darker.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
All right, coming up, speaking of scheduling, I want to
go back to something that that Greg Sankie was talking about, uh,
and and the scheduling thing and and the Big ten
versus SEC with regard to eight conference games or nine,
because there's some valid points made on both sides. When
(12:57):
we get to that coming up, when we can continue
from SEC football Media Days here in Atlanta, Georgia. Where
at the College Football Hall of Fame, here on thirteen
under the zone
Glad to have you with us.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Thanks again to Mike Hardball Harts for joining us during
the first part of the program. Mike will be on
tomorrow morning with Mark Henry the World's Strongest Band. That's
the morning kickoff seven am to nine am here on
thirteen hundred the Zone. Hey, I want to take the
opportunity while I have right now before we hear from
Lane Kiffin and tell you that you could you could
(00:29):
win a pair of tickets to see Ghost August fourteenth
of Moody Center. Not the movie with was it the
late Patrick Swayze?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
And to me Moore, is that the you know the
scene where they're making the what is that the pottery?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Yeah? The pottery? Yeah? That stayed with you. Huh. I've
never seen that. I've just heard about it.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Okay, all right, Yeah you look this up for us earlier.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Ghost is a band.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Yeah, I think it's heavy metal belief. Yeah, you're right. Okay.
So we've got a pair of tickets we're gonna give away.
And the way you do this, like we said, the
way you do it to enter is to download the
iHeart Radio app. If you haven't already done it, you
certainly do it and by the way, use it for
your presets. It makes things a lot easier to listen
to this program there on the presets. So you download
(01:22):
the iHeart Radio app, you search AM thirteen under the
zone and then there's a little red button with a
white microphone, and you tap it and you leave us
a voice message up to thirty seconds.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
You don't even have to take that long.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Just say that's our talk back feature, and you say, hey,
I heard on the Craigway Show I could win a
pair of tickets to see Ghost.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
So here's the keyword.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
There's a keyword every week, every day, all five days
this week. So today's keyword boom, as in a ghost
with boo. Now you've been talking to our promotion staff
about better keywords, haven't you.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Is boo not good? At least it's different? Well, it
is different, I'll give you that.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I mean, last week we're giving out Jason Alden tickets. Yeah,
and the keyword was yeeha oh boy.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Okay, Anyway, the keyword today is boo. So go to
AM thirteen hundred zone on the iHeartRadio app, tap that
little red button with a white microphone, you leave us
a message. You can be five six seconds. You can say, hey,
I want to be in the drawing. I heard on
the Craigway Show. Today's keyword is boo. You do that,
You're in the drawing. It's that simple, all right, let's
(02:33):
uh as we move forward here on SEC Football Media Days.
The four programs who were taking part in this today
were South Carolina, LSU, Vanderbilt, and Ole Miss. Just a
few minutes ago, Lane Kiffin finished up his initial address
(02:55):
to the media gathered here and here it is the
comments from the head coach of the Old Miss Bulls.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Link the honored to be here. You know, I don't
take this for granted.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
You know, there's only sixteen of these spots that we
get to hold and come up here, so I have
a lot of appreciation for that. The Commissioner has been phenomenal,
he just mentioned going into sixth year, and he's been
great to us, Keith Carter and Chancellor Boyce hiring us
(03:29):
five and a half years ago, and the Old Miss
fans in Oxford and how as he mentioned a lot
of personal things there and how awesome it's been. It's
really been an amazing five years personally and professionally there
in Oxford and I reflect on that, like life with
(03:51):
so many good things of gains and losses, you know,
with with my daughter Landry being there and now Knox
and Laila living there, really is a he mentioned the
kind of broke it all down, my brother and his
four kids living there, you know, it's really amazing. And
then with some losses there now losing both parents in
(04:13):
the last year has been very challenging.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
But you know, just thinking on the way.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Over here, you know about my mother and how grateful
I ahim to her, and it reminds me of coaches
wives and tall coaches wives in all levels, how you
really are the glue that holds everything together in these
families with coaches like my dad that worked so much
and the moms doing everything at home. And so just
(04:44):
really grateful to both my parents for that and feel like,
you know, they spent a lot of years and spent
a lot of time, you know, taking us to a
certain level. I think when you're now experiencing that, which
is strange of losing both parents, that you're really the
highest on the family tree now of what's left and.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
What that means about.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
You know, they go next door and I don't think
they leave you, I think they go next door and
they allow you to go to the next level. And
just coming off of you know, a couple of days.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
With family and.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
With Chris's kids, and you know, whether that was dancing
with my nieces at Morgan Wallen or then yesterday out
on the boat and seeing all the cousins playing with
each other, and how proud my parents would be of that,
and just really really cool to see things through a
different lens now and awesome that there's so many Kiffens
(05:43):
in Oxford to experience everything together. You know where I
think of our program, where we're at, and you know,
the last four seasons there, you know, since COVID, and
three of those four seasons the top twelve finishes. Well,
even the last fifty five years of Old Miss there's
(06:07):
been four top twelve finishes, so three of those to
be in the last four years, one in the previous
fifty one years. I think says a lot.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
About what we've been able to do.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Through the staff, through the players, through everybody involved, especially
the leadership above me over that time. The third most
SEC wins of all sixteen SEC teams. That's helped us tremendously.
You know, when we got there at Old miss you know,
we had to sell to recruits, Hey, when you come here,
(06:41):
this is what it's going to look like.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
We're gonna win.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
We're going to have first round picks, We're going to
have the most players drafted in school history.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
We're gonna.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Win eleven games in a season, win twenty one games
in the last two seasons. And so now that we've
done that, we've seen that impact, whether that's in transfers
coming in our high school kids that they've been able
to see that, and especially with the Mississippi kids to
stay home, you knowing that they can achieve and get
all these things that maybe previously they needed to look
(07:12):
to leave for. Okay, it's twenty twenty five team. I
think we have a lot of really good players coming back.
We added a lot through the portal, and it's been
a very competitive offseason. I think that the groundwork of
these last players over the last few years, what they've
(07:34):
laid and what they taught the players has been very beneficial.
Like we say in recruiting, you know, you get what
you see with us, there's not fluff and recruiting. We
don't put on this show. And then all of a sudden,
they get there and it's a different thing. And I
think that that's really helped us over time, for us
(07:56):
not to have many kids that are playing leave and
going to the port and for other kids to come
to us because they know that.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
And a lot of that.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Is to our culture and to our staff. So to
be able to keep our entire staff from last year
was very critical. That's not been the case a lot
of times in our years at Old MISF had to
replace a lot of really good coaches. I think we've
done a good job of putting together this roster working
(08:26):
within this cap. You know, if you go back to
retention of last year's players and then the portal guys
in December January, you know, we went into that operating
under this cap because you know, we were told this.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Was the settlement was most likely going to get approved
and how that would work.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
So you know, we get a lot of questions like
what's it like now, Well, we've been operating, we have
under this cap guidelines of what was coming and what
it was going to look like. So I think we've
done a really good job with that. It's obviously means
you can't as many players as you like at times
because you have to because.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
You have a budget.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
So we're obviously hopeful that you know that that'll be
rewarded by doing that. I think it's obvious people aren't
staying within that cap. So I think the whole thing
will be what what does that look like? And that's
what we don't know. You know, what does it look
like when you don't and what are the punishments for that?
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Do you win? And then that comes later. So that's
remained to be seen.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
But I've already got the questions about the cap and
what that what is that like now having to do that.
We've been doing that for a while, operating on that.
Very excited about this schedule coming up. You know, we
play nine games in Mississippi, so that's awesome for our fans.
(09:53):
Basically to have nine home games is amazing and for
Oxford to have have that for the businesses there is great.
So be a very competitive schedule and a lot of
work to do with all these new players in the meantime.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Yeah, so.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
There's the comments of Lane Kiffin, the head coach.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
I don't want did he say they have nine home games?
Nine for the hole miss Rebels.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
I have the pocket schedule out here, and that's crazy,
consider in Texas goes with three months without a home
game this year that they.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Did month of October. Month of October.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
They don't have on one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
eight three.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
I thought he said nine.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Georgia State, Arkansas, LSU to Lane. That's four, Washington State five,
South Carolina six, Citadel seven.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Florida eight, egg Bowlton not at home.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
M hm no, no, I'm South Carolina.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Sorry this one? That is nine? Okay, wow wow nine.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
From so they have they have one road game Kentucky
week two, but the first seven weeks of the season,
six of the seven they play at home. Wow, including
LSU at home, which is huge. Kentucky sorry, Arkansas at home,
to Land at home, Washington State at home. That's a
really weird mid season game. I guess because they play
(11:24):
Kentucky week two is why they're playing the Cougars of
Wazoo State.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Well in Washington State, as we know, also is in
that situation. They're kind of in that nether world right now.
They're in purgatory until the completely ramped up, new and
revised I won't necessarily say improved PAC twelve gets underway.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
The following year. So I guess that kind of makes sense.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
The state conference because every college in the pact, the
new PAC twelve is at State.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
That's right at State in the monitors except for Gonzach
them and that's basketball only. So you're right, Uh, that's
that's amazing.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Uh okay, all right? Coming up?
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Yeah, look at that Georgia State, Arkansas, Tulane, l s U,
Washington State, South Carolina, Citadel Forta. I'm only counting eight here.
I thought he said nine. Anyway, I'm counting yeah, because
they started at Kentucky, at Georgia, at Oklahoma and a
Mississippi State.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Well, all those home games is why a lot of
people have ole Miss as kind of the sneaky dark
horse in the conference. But I think every season ole
Miss always is the sneaker, the sneaky darker.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
All right, coming up, speaking of scheduling, I want to
go back to something that that Greg Sankie was talking about, uh,
and and the scheduling thing and and the Big ten
versus SEC with regard to eight conference games or nine,
because there's some valid points made on both sides. When
(12:57):
we get to that coming up, when we can continue
from SEC football Media Days here in Atlanta, Georgia. Where
at the College Football Hall of Fame, here on thirteen
under the zone
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