The Louisiana House of Representatives recently voted on a bill that could be positive for Lane Kiffin and his LSU Tigers.
The bill, which received an overwhelming 92-1 vote and was strongly backed by the LSU athletic department, enables the university to keep private how much it pays its athletes through public money, rather than making that information public.
House Bill 608 will next hit the desk of state Governor Jeff Landry, who is expected to give it his nod of approval, given how avid he is about LSU sports. The Legislative Session is set to end on Monday.
“These are now professional athletes getting paid more than many actual professional athletes,” Senator Greg Miller said. “We have lost sight of our priorities. We have jumped the shark on this, and I think it’s time that we just say, ‘Enough is enough'... But athletes who are getting paid millions of dollars, we’re not going to be able to see what they get paid because we’re trying to protect them. Who are we really trying to protect?”
Lane Kiffin is the perfect coach to run a black hat operation
Given Kiffin's personality and approach, it is easy to assume he likes what he sees here. And, in all honesty, the vast majority of college programs and head coaches across the nation would be in favor of the passage of this bill. After all, NIL is a highly controversial subject, especially regarding the pay-for-play aspect. How this decision is perceived by the public and by journalists who cover topics of this nature, however, may be a bit different.
And this is not the first time there has been a bill associated with Kiffin that he may like. In fact, there is another one that has even earned the name "Lane Kiffin Rule" because it is literally associated with him.
The bill is reflective of just how much of a ruckus it caused when Lane Kiffin chose to leave Ole Miss and not coach the team through a College Football Playoff, in which some believed the team had a real shot at winning a national title, and instead took the LSU job within a conflicting time frame.
Here's exactly what it says, in formal words, from an excerpt in the official document.
"An individual who serves, or has served at any point during a competitive season, as football athletic personnel for a varsity sports team for intercollegiate football at an institution shall not, during that same competitive season, perform for another institution any duties or responsibilities customarily associated with a head coach of a varsity sports team."
How are they going to enforce this? Well, that's going to be interesting to see, and there are almost certainly more debacles and controversies to follow this rule. And the bigger question is if it is even fair.
It's hard to blame Kiffin for what he did. Coming to LSU was not a lateral move, but rather a move to a program that has stronger recruiting power to pair perfectly with the type of recruiting ace that he has shown time and time again to be.
Can we really blame Kiffin for choosing to climb the ladder, as he rightfully deserves to do after he took Ole Miss from a lowly SEC program to one that had -- and still has -- a shot to compete for a national championship every year?
Regardless, the LSU faithful should be happy to have a coach like Kiffin at the helm, even if the Ole Miss faithful were jaded by his departure.
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