For the last 10 days, as the regular season of college football has come to a close, a rumbling earthquake has been building — the main tremor of which struck, with a ground zero in Oxford, Mississippi, on Sunday.
The Ole Miss Rebels’ head coach, Lane Kiffin, who may have built the most overachieving team in college football history with this year’s playoff-bound 11-1 club that was picked to finish in the middle of the pack in the SEC, opted to flip his allegiance to LSU. And the reaction to Kiffin’s departure has been… well…
No, really. This is what it looked like at the airport in Oxford as Kiffin, his family, and a few members of his coaching and support staff boarded a pair of private jets for a trip to the new professional destination…
The utterly insane reaction by Ole Miss’s fans to the defection of the most successful football coach they’ve had since Johnny Vaught is actually quite understandable.
And absolutely awesome. We’ll get to that in a minute.
What needs to be understood is that there really aren’t any bad guys here.
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