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Lane Kiffin to Ole Miss looks like it is happening. Rivals reporter Neal McCready said on Friday night that Kiffin will be Ole Miss’ next head football coach, though a deal is not officially signed. He says Kiffin will arrive in Oxford on Sunday, a day after FAU’s conference championship game, and be announced as the Rebels head coach on Monday. Kiffin is in his third season at Florida Atlantic and has coached the Owls to the Conference USA Championship Game twice. Kiffin taking this job makes me wonder what he is thinking. He will have to compete with Nick Saban at Alabama, Ed Orgeron at LSU, Gus Malzahn at Auburn and Jimbo Fisher at Texas A&M. He could not have picked a more difficult division. So why did he do it? Kiffin has never really done the rational thing during his career. He got into it with Al Davis in Oakland and was quickly fired; left Tennessee after just one season; took over at USC while the program was still under sanction; and couldn’t resist taking a shot at Alabama while the team's o
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