Ole Miss QB Trinidad Chambliss publicly disagrees with Lane Kiffin's claims about racism in Oxford

Tim Brando joins Dan Dakich on Don’t @ Me to deliver a scorched-earth takedown of Lane Kiffin’s controversial claims that Ole Miss's "segregated" feel and complicated racial history hindered his recruiting.

Lane Kiffin is no stranger to making headlines. The new head coach of the LSU Tigers starts his career in Baton Rouge in just two months' time, but even after his controversial and contentious exit from Ole Miss, he had some bizarre complaints about his time in Oxford.

In an interview with Vanity Fair in May, Kiffin addressed some of his reasons for the move, including the most unexpected one: Black family members being concerned about racism in Mississippi in 2026.

"'Hey, coach, we really like you. But my grandparents aren’t letting me move to Oxford, Mississippi.’ That doesn’t come up when you say Baton Rouge, Louisiana," he said in the interview. "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.'"

He later added that his remarks about Ole Miss were "factual."

TIM BRANDO JOINS DAN DAKICH, EVISCERATES LANE KIFFIN FOR HIS RACIALLY CHARGED VANITY FAIR COMMENTS

"I just hope [comments] comes across respectful to Ole Miss," he said. "There are some things that I'm saying that are factual, they're not shots."

Lane Kiffin of the Mississippi Rebels before the game against the South Carolina Gamecocks at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium on Nov. 01, 2025 in Oxford, Mississippi. (Justin Ford/Getty Images)

Unsurprisingly, reactions on social media to Kiffin's claims were not positive. And there were many of them. To the point where Kiffin later apologized, telling On3, "I really apologize if anybody at