Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin is the most important identify within the present school soccer hiring cycle, and LSU is the workforce most linked with making an attempt to lure him away. Not solely is Kiffin’s determination on his future looming, however LSU is reportedly getting ready to current him with an enormous provide that goes properly past his personal private compensation.
LSU getting ready huge contract and NIL provide for Lane Kiffin
According to a report from Yahoo’s Ross Dellenger on Friday night time, LSU officers are finalizing a suggestion that would at the least tie Kiffin for the highest-paid head coach in school soccer.
The provide, which has not been finalized, could possibly be as a lot as $90 million over seven years.
The most important issue within the reported provide, nevertheless, could possibly be the promise of great NIL roster commitments that would exceed $25 million.
Dellenger says the NIL portion could possibly be crucial figuring out issue for Kiffin.
This report additionally comes on the identical day Ole Miss athletic director Keith Carter said an announcement on Kiffin’s future will come on Nov. 29 following the workforce’s annual Egg Bowl recreation in opposition to Mississippi State.
All of this appears fairly ominous for Ole Miss if it had any hopes of conserving Kiffin.
Saying the precise day a call can be made with out additionally having a brand new contract extension in place looks as if the college is aware of what’s coming. Particularly if LSU is getting ready that form of provide with that form of NIL dedication.
Kiffin has been at Ole Miss for six years and helped flip this system right into a nationwide energy. He has gained at the least 10 video games in three consecutive seasons (and 4 of the previous 5 seasons) and is at the moment as much as No. 6 within the newest School Soccer Playoff rankings. So long as they don’t lose to their in-state rivals subsequent week, there’s a good likelihood a playoff berth can be on the best way for them.
That success is what makes him such a sizzling candidate for job openings in LSU and Florida. Each SEC faculties are out there for a high-profile coach, and particularly LSU following the Brian Kelly expertise.
LSU looks as if the much more seemingly vacation spot for him, not solely as a result of cash, but additionally attributable to the truth that it looks as if a possibility for quick success.
