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They Lobbied Ole Miss on TV | Nobody Mentioned the Shared Agent
On November 29, College GameDay spent a segment arguing that Ole Miss should let Lane Kiffin coach the Rebels through the playoff — after he had already agreed to take the LSU job. Nick Saban made the case. Kirk Herbstreit made the case. What nobody on that broadcast mentioned is that Saban, Herbstreit and Kiffin are all reported clients of the same agency, CAA, where Jimmy Sexton runs football.
This is not a conspiracy take, and the show says so out loud. Awful Announcing, which wrote the toughest version of this story, concluded that ESPN does not have a Jimmy Sexton problem — it has a…
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