ESPN’s Paul Finebaum and Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin have an interesting relationship.
Finebaum makes no apologies when it comes to slamming coaches. He even said recently these past few months since Nick Saban retired from Alabama he’s needed to find a new target and may have found one in Kiffin.
Kiffin has been on Finebaum’s show several times and gives as good as he gets, which was on display last week at SEC Media Days. The Ole Miss coach reminded Finebaum how he helped get him fired from USC on the airport tarmac.
“We were playing that night and you were on College GameDay and you had to make your big splash,” Kiffin said to Finebaum. “They were watching it because I know the other person in the room that was watching it with them. And you said what a joke I was, I’m the Miley Cyrus of college football coaching, and I should be fired. They looked at each other and later that night, I was fired.
“So you were wrong on that. I mean, you put me down with that. Really, I don’t know what you’re good at. You predicted Coach Saban was done. That didn’t happen. You basically said Miley Cyrus stinks and she’s still going.”
One person who noticed the rant was Deion Sanders Jr., who praised Kiffin for his takedown of Finebaum.
“Coach Lane Kiffin is my next favorite coach after my dad,” Deion Jr. said on Instagram
Last week during SEC Media Days, Finebaum called out Deion Sanders and the Colorado Buffaloes, saying the program was “irrelevant.”
That comment obviously didn’t sit well with Sanders and those associated with the program. Sanders responded to Finebaum on social media but this is par for the course for Finebaum.
God is good my brother & they mad mad! I sense a bit of anger & hostility. Lolololololol God bless @RGIII for always keeping it 💯 https://t.co/gR11UQmWd9
— COACH PRIME (@DeionSanders) July 16, 2024
While old-school coaches like Saban tried to ignore Finebaum, this is a new generation of head coaches who have no problem going toe-to-toe with the talk show host.
