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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I think this is foul, and the people who suffer
the most from this is the kids. And so the
idea that Lane Kiffen will no longer be able to
walk these young boys, these men out onto the field
for the next three or four weeks is a travesty
in my opinion. A lot of these kids will end
up inevitably transferring, and now old miss has to rebuild
and started all over again, and so and so begins
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the cycle once again of we were here and now
we're here. We were here, and it's just I feel
bad for the kids, though.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Now Lane Kiffen shuck up the coaching world over the weekend, Rodney.
But before we get into that, I have to get
into Trayvon Boykin and his Russell Wilson Thanksgiving story. Because
Thanksgiving is supposed to be a time where people come
together family friends, you know, it's it's very intimate, and
obviously Russell Wilson felt close enough to him to invite
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him over, only for Trayvon to then get on a
podcast and call it weird.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
So I think how your family and your ecosystem celebrates
holidays will dictate what you determined to be weird or normal, right,
like I live in Los Angeles, California. It's home with
a transplant. So that means that most people in LA
who are not La Natives don't spend the holidays with
their family, and rarely do we even get the opportunity
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to spend it with our real friends if our real
friendship group is not in Los Angeles, which is my case.
So I think it was kind of foul a Trayvon
Boykin to exploit Russell Wilson's family and friend history for
the purpose of being on this podcast, because you may
not have asd like why didn't you ask Russ about that?
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Like you if you would have asked Russ, like, yo,
where your family and friends? Like where's where the people
who would normally be at Thanksgiving at in my family?
Where are they at?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
For you?
Speaker 1 (01:52):
And if rus would have gave them an answer that was,
you know, less than ideal than cool. But you know,
if you just coming on a podcast blab in your
mouth because that was different than what your norm is,
I think that's corner yourself.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Yeah, and then went as far as to call you know,
baby future bad. He said that the only people that
were there were Sierra's dad and the children and then
some chefs, and I think that like as athletes, right, like,
sometimes Thanksgiving obviously doesn't look like anybody else's Thanksgiving, because
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you may have practice, you may have to go in
for meetings, you may have to play on Thanksgiving Day.
And so maybe Russell has this this thing with his
family where it's like, Okay, maybe Thanksgiving isn't good for me.
I'm gonna do just something really intimate, and then Christmas
everybody can come up and maybe the rest of his
family is doing something with Thanksgiving. You know where they
live or where they're from or whatever, you know what
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I mean, Like for me, like my family came up
for Thanksgiving, but I won't see them for Christmas. So
for him to think so highly of you to invite
him into the fold where it is very intimate, where
he doesn't have a lot of family there, and for
then you to go on a podcast and call it weird,
I'm like you just trying to like we're I don't
even know where he were, who was he playing for?
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Like what are you doing right now? Because obviously this
is all you have to do. And Russell has a
beautiful family and you just decided that she was going
to wake up one day and talk about that.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
I see a violation to trust. It's a violation of trust.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Man, Like, if I invite you into the sanctity of
my home, don't talk about what goes on in my
four walls, you know, unless something like super nasty or
super crazy happens.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
But no, if I invite you into the fold.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Of my home with my family, my children there, and
then you turn around and you make public fodder out
of that, that's corneas.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Tell to me, I don't respect that. That's not real.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
I believe in masculinity, you know, to the standpoint that
there are certain rules and certain decorums that we as
been as supposed to operate with, they operate by, and
that for sure is a violation like do not one,
don't ever talk negatively about my children or my family.
But two, you know, if I invite you into my home,
respecting out of that space. You know what I'm saying
that the podcast thing gets a gets a little convoluted.
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People just get on certain spaces and platforms and just
say whatever they want. And you know, fortunately and unfortunately
Russell Wilson is not anybody who's gonna be able to
do anything about this. He's not you know, he's not
going to approach the situation with any level of like ferocity.
So you know, Trayvon guests to just do this and
get away with it essentially, except you know, now people
will know going forward not to invite that negro over.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
You can't even invite him.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
And then the thing is, where was your family at
where were your friends that you had? Nobody you had
to go over there? Okay, So anyways, we previewed Lane
Kiffin at the top of the show. Let's get into
it now. My gosh, Lane Kiffin is not the head
coach at LSU. I'm sorry, it's not your boy, the
honey Badger. But it's okay. But the timeline was so
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crazy on this Rodney because if you remember last week
the ad Keith Carter and Ole Miss said Lane is
not going to give us an answer until after the
egg Bowl. I thought that was strange, Like, okay, if
he's gonna say, he would have just announced that he stayed.
I knew he was gone. Then the egg Bowl comes,
they win the egg Bowl. Handedly great. They were supposed
to meet after the egg Bowl. They did not. The
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next day Saturday, they met all day they met all day,
I don't even think they came to a conclusion that day.
I think Sunday is when Lane officially let them know
that he was going to go to Baton Rouge, and
Keith Carter released a statement saying like, yeah, you're done,
like effective immediately You're done. And that has like people
in a frenzy because people are divided on whether or
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not Lane should have been able to continue to coach
because Old Miss could potentially have this historic season that
they've never had before and now he has to just
drop everything. That is crazy for me to think about,
because like, you put all this work into this, and
because you want a better opportunity, you got to just
let it go. And if they go onto the National
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Championship game, something Old Miss has never done before, you
just got to look at home.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Yeah, though I don't know that LSU is necessarily a
better situation than Old Miss, And I'm saying that, like,
I know, LSU is a more gaudy university, right, it's
higher up the totem pole. But I think the lack
of pressure at Old Miss created the environment that Lane
Kiffen has been able to thrive in for this particular season,
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and I think under the lights of LSU, if you
do not perform year in year out, that least gets
extremely short. As far as him having to be forced
out before the season is complete, I think this is foul.
And the people who suffer the most from this is
the kids, right like these are people who have bought in,
who have committed to the idea, the concept of.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
This coach, and you know, the football locker room is
very different.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
These men, they have their own birthright fathers, for sure,
but there is somewhat of a father son relationship that
gets cultivated in football locker rooms, which is very different
than any other kind of locker room. And so the
idea that Lane Kiffen will no longer be able to
walk these young boys, these men out onto the field
for the next three or four weeks is a travesty.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
In my opinion.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
A lot of these kids will end up inevitably transferring,
and now old Miss has to rebuild and started all
over again, and so and so begins the cycle once
again of we were.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Here and now we're here.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
We were here, and it's just I feel bad for
the kids, yo, I feel bad for them.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yeah, because that's like you mentioned that that's ultimately it's
who is hurting the most.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Did you see the fans? Did you see the fans
booing him give him the finger as he boor to
his private jet. Did you see that.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
They said that they're calling him a hole. They said,
you can't turn a hole into a housewife. You know,
it's crazy how people switch.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Up on you.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
But for me, this was not a surprise. I think
that Lane really is waiting for that Alabama job, to
be honest, But I think that Old Miss was just
an opportunity for him to get back into the SEC right,
because you know, he was down at FAU for a
couple of seasons, did well there, he got the Old
Miss gig.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
But if you.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Watched his demeanor the whole time he was there, he
wasn't really happy. Like Old Miss. They like to drink,
they like to party the students section. There was a
lot of times where after the game he was begging
fans to stay at the game. He's like, why are
y'all leaving to go tailgate? Like I want y'all to stay.
They're not doing that at all at LSU, right, Like
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LSU's one of those those schools where, like the fans
are gonna be there if they're winning or losing. That
it's just crazy. But Old miss is never going to
have the resources to get over the hump in the
SEC because for years they were in the West where
you had to get through LSU, you had to get
through Alabama, maybe Auburn sometimes, you know what I mean, Like,
it was very tough on the West. You know, I
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had to throw that in there. It was very tough
on the West. And so he they could they don't
have the resources. We're at LSU. They came in and
was like, we're gonna give you a number. This is
your recruiting number. Like I'm sure his mind was like, Okay,
I can do so much more. I can get so
many guys in. Because now all obviously it's all about
the money.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
But what is Lane Kiffin one, let's talk about.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Doc Like, not as a head coach. We know that
he's won as an offensive coordinator when he was at Alabama,
and obviously we know that that coaching staff was stacked with.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
What has link Kiffen won as a standalone man on
his own island? What does he want.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
One? A few egg bowls?
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Yeah, so this is something as well.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
And that's what I'm saying. And I think that that's
why he feels like he has to go bigger, because
there's a better opportunity for him to win at LSU
then it was at Ole Miss. Yeah, that's what to do,
I think.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
I don't know, Yeah, just to make that decision now,
Like if there was a kid who wanted people would
kill a kid. If a kid wanted to transfer in
the middle of the season and it was like, you
know what, right right before the twin him the starts, Hey, actually, y'all,
I'm good. I'm gonna go over here and head to
Miami and I'm gonna kick it with them throughout the
rest of the season because next year that's where I'm playing.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
People would kill that kid that under the bus, but.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
The university would do the same thing if that. If
a kid decided that he was going to hit the portal,
you're gone immediately. We're taking your housing, we're taking your car. No.
Like you remember, we had the we had the guys
on that did the Blue Chippers right from Louisiana and
they where they were talking about the kid that was
at Texas A and M and he said that he
was going to hit the portal and they took everything
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from him. He couldn't even finish the semester because he
had nowhere to live, he had no car to drive.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
My point is that there is a transfer window, and generally,
like transfers do not announce intent to transfer before the
season is out. That's all I'm saying like that, this
is it's a rarity of that happens for the kids.
And if a kid would, like you just said, even
insinuate that he was looking to transfer or leave a program,
then he would be killed for it. So I don't
unders why why we're even making Lane kip and make
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this decision at this point in the season, Like this
is crazy. So the problem is this is like leaving
your wife while she's why she's eight months pregnant.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
She's eight months pregnant. You can't just lever. That's what
this is. Baby about to be born.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
The issue is you have early signing period and everybody
wants to get ahead of the eight ball. I did
a short on this a couple of weeks ago because
I was like, why are all these teams firing head
coaches so early in the season. Is because they're trying
to get ahead and that's what they're trying to do
at Ole Miss. They're like, Okay, we got to figure
out who is going to be the coaching staff of
the future. We got to go and find a head
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coach when all of them have been picked over by now,
because we got to start recruiting because signing day. You
have early signing Day in this month, and then you know,
you got the one in February, and so they're trying
to get ahead of it. And they know that there
are going to be a lot of kids that are
going to follow him to LSU. Your coaching staff is
going to follow him to LSU. So their thought process
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is really like this the rest of the season, we
don't even care about. We're trying to get ahead of
next year.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
It'll be interesting to see also, who ends up as
the head coach at Penn State. Just want to throw
it out there.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
They fired James Franklin and it feels like the coaching
carousel has skipped over Penn State, which says a lot
about that program where they stand, how people view them,
and so I just want to throw that out there.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
It is going to be very interesting to see how
well Lane Kiffin does at LSU because he's getting so
much more money in his pocket as well as money
towards recruiting if he does not win at LSU. I
think that's gonna be a wrap for Lane because he's
gotten a lot of opportunities as a head coach.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
A lot mediocre white men.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
God, they get to respawn as many times as they want,
as many times they want.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
But this is a pretty long statement. Let's go ahead
and wrap this thing on up. Y'all. Let us know
your thoughts on Traybon BOYCND.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Violating the privacy of being invited into a man's home
by going on a podcast and talking negatively about Russell Wilson.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Was he out of bounds? Should he get his ass books? Y'all?
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Let us know in the comments section, and then also
let us know how you feel about Lane Kiffin departing
Old Miss.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
For LSU in the middle of the season. We look
forward to hearing your comments here.
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