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Lane Kiffin, on SEC Network: “At Ole Miss, you can go 7-5, have 7-5 seasons, and you're good.” He is describing a program whose expectations he personally rebuilt, and then left.
The receipt: Ole Miss went 13-2 last season, 7-1 in the SEC, beat Georgia 39-34 in the Sugar Bowl and reached a national semifinal. Tiger Rag's Glenn Guilbeau, who covers LSU, pushed back on the quote in his own column.
The honest counterweight: before Kiffin arrived, 7-5 genuinely was a normal Ole Miss season. He is the reason that sentence sounds insulting now. He built the standard he is mocking, and that deserves…
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