What LSU football coach Lane Kiffin said about recruiting at LSU, Ole Miss

BATON ROUGE — The pitch Lane Kiffin has used to anyone would listen for the first few months he's been on the job with LSU footbal l is that the program, the university and the city of Baton Rouge is "just different. " And apparently when comparing his experiences thus far between his new job with LSU and his previous at Ole Miss , to him, there are some stark differences as it relates to attracting the top football players to his teams. In a profile piece published by Vanity Fair magazine Monday, Kiffin said the racial climate of Oxford, Mississippi, and the Ole Miss' connection to the Confederacy was a hindrance in recruiting .

LANE KIFFIN ON RECRUITING AT OLE MISS Lane Kiffin on how Ole Miss' racial history made it difficult to recruit Black players "'Hey, coach, we really like you. But my grandparents aren't letting me move to Oxford, Mississippi,'" Kiffin said players would tell him during recruiting. The Vanity Fair article then states the next day during a sitdown with Kiffin that he said he hoped his comment about Oxford and Ole Miss came across "respectful.

" "There are some things that I'm saying that are factual, they're not shots," he said. When speaking of recruiting players to LSU, Kiffin said the responses from recruits' parents and families have had a different tone. "That doesn't come up when you say Baton Rouge, Louisiana," the LSU coach said.

"Parents were sitting here this weekend saying the campus' diversity feels so great. 'It feels like there's no segregation. And we want that for our kid because that's the real world.