Appearances

I’m the kind of person who believes in keeping up appearances—dress nice, don’t fight with the spouse in public, that sort of thing. College football is a whole different world. Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin accepted the head-coaching job at LSU but wanted to finish out the year with his current team, most likely bound for a postseason playoff berth. Nope, said the Ole Miss athletic director, maybe a little ticked that $9 million a year wasn’t enough to keep his coach, not when LSU offered a reported $13 million, totaling $91 million over seven years. Oh, and Louisiana governor Jeff Landry was busy behind the scenes making sure the old LSU athletic director was shown the door so a bright, new age could be ushered in. Louisiana, Mississippi—states where poverty goes to cut its teeth, and yet college coaches there can rack in the big bucks. Appearances be damned.