Jake Paul takes jab at Lane Kiffin after LSU lures coach away from Ole Miss

Boxer Jake Paul took a jab astatine Lane Kiffin aft the assemblage shot manager decided to leap astatine the accidental to instrumentality the LSU Tigers’ occupation and permission the Ole Miss Rebels connected Sunday.

Kiffin made the determination hours aft Ole Miss defeated the Mississippi State Bulldogs successful their Egg Bowl rivalry crippled and virtually solidifying a spot successful the College Football Playoff. Paul was among those who believed that Kiffin made a mistake.

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Ole Miss Rebels caput manager Lane Kiffin throws a shot earlier the crippled against the Oklahoma Sooners astatine Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium connected Oct. 25, 2025. (Kevin Jairaj/Imagn Images)

"Lane Kiffin wtf did you conscionable bash specified an L," helium wrote connected X. "Feel atrocious for the players man…"

Ole Miss players didn’t look to beryllium excessively breached up by Kiffin’s move. Offensive lineman Brycen Saunders appeared to beryllium excited that Pete Golding was promoted from antiaircraft coordinator to caput manager arsenic the squad prepares for the College Football Playoff.

"LFG! @KeithCarterOM champion AD successful the nation, and couldn't beryllium much excited to play for Coach Golding," Saunders wrote connected X.

Kiffin released a connection connected his determination to permission Ole Miss for LSU.

He said that helium wanted to manager Ole Miss done the remainder of the season, but was denied by Carter.

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Jake Paul punches Mike Perry during their cruiserweight combat astatine Amalie Arena connected July 20, 2024, successful Tampa, Florida. (Julio Aguilar/Getty Images)

"After a batch of supplication and clip spent with family, I made the hard determination to judge the caput coaching presumption astatine LSU," Kiffin said successful a statement.

"I was hoping to implicit a historical six-season tally with this year's squad by starring Ole Miss done the playoffs, capitalizing connected the team's unthinkable occurrence and their committedness to decorativeness strong, and investing everything into a playoff tally with guardrails successful spot to support the programme successful immoderate areas of concern. My petition to bash truthful was denied by Keith Carter contempt the squad besides asking him to let maine to support coaching them truthful they could amended support their precocious level of performance. Unfortunately, that means Friday's Egg Bowl was my past crippled coaching the Rebels.

"While I americium looking guardant to a caller commencement with a unsocial accidental astatine LSU, I volition everlastingly cherish the unthinkable six years I spent astatine Ole Miss and volition beryllium rooting hard for the squad to implicit their ngo and bring a title to Oxford."

Ole Miss caput manager Lane Kiffin answers questions from the property aft a assemblage shot crippled betwixt Mississippi State and Ole Miss astatine Davis Wade Stadium successful Starkville, Mississippi, connected Friday, Nov. 28, 2025. (Ayrton Breckenridge/Clarion Ledger / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

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Kiffin was 55-19 successful 74 games with Ole Miss. He led the schoolhouse to 11 wins doubly since taking implicit the occupation successful 2020.

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