Cam Newton slams Lane Kiffin about his comments on Ole Miss

Social media has been on fire recently after Lane Kiffin’s comments about Ole Miss in Vanity Fair.

Kiffin blamed their racist past for why it was hard to recruit great players there.

“Hey, coach, we really like you. But my grandparents aren’t letting me move to Oxford, Mississippi,” Kiffin said, top recruits would tell him about Ole Miss. “That doesn’t come up when you say Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Parents were sitting here this weekend saying the campus’s diversity feels so great: ‘It feels like there’s no segregation. And we want that for our kid because that’s the real world.”

His comments started a firestorm among SEC fans, especially among LSU and Ole Miss fans, with many people questioning Kiffin’s motives, including Cam Newton.

The former NFL MVP said Kiffin didn’t leave because of racism; he left because he was offered more money.

“You’re a liar. It ain’t about the money? It’s always about the money,” Newton said during the latest episode of his 4th & 1 podcast.

“LSU is a part of the tier one of the SEC, that’s what Lane knows. It’s going to take way more to perform at Ole Miss than it does at a LSU. The reports say that, annually, LSU is giving Lane Kiffin the opportunity to spend $25 million a year to acquire talent and to keep talent… If ol’ Lane Zachariah wants to get them [SEC] bonuses, he knows he’s got to go somewhere that can get him the talent that he needs.”

Kiffin has since apologized for his comments, but has the damage already been done?

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