{"id":435408,"date":"2024-11-13T21:18:53","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T02:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/?post_type=article&#038;p=435408"},"modified":"2024-11-13T21:19:12","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T02:19:12","slug":"lane-kiffin-trolls-paul-finebaum-for-getting-him-fired-from-usc-job","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/ole-miss-football\/lane-kiffin-trolls-paul-finebaum-for-getting-him-fired-from-usc-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Lane Kiffin trolls Paul Finebaum for getting him fired from USC job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/coaches\/lane-kiffin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lane Kiffin<\/a> has been known to troll and speak his mind. The Ole Miss head coach recently appeared on the Paul Finebaum Show and gave the veteran analyst a hard time for &#8220;getting him fired&#8221; from USC.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t know, Kiffin and Finebaum have a long history. On College GameDay in 2013, Finebaum called Kiffin the &#8220;Miley Cyrus of college football coaching,&#8221; and said USC should fire him. Later that night, Kiffin was indeed fired. Kiffin also mentioned this incident to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/ole-miss-football\/lane-kiffin-playfully-roasts-paul-finebaum-over-series-of-missed-predictions\/\">Finebaum last July at SEC Media Days<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the pair were reunited and Kiffin couldn&#8217;t help but get another dig in.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know, you got me fired from USC,&#8221; Kiffin explained to Finebaum. &#8220;We&#8217;ve said that before, and now I&#8217;m saying, hey, I wouldn&#8217;t have been here to get the Georgia win if you wouldn&#8217;t have gotten me fired at USC.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Nothing to see here&#8230; just a normal interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lane_Kiffin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Lane_Kiffin<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/U3yMC0SknR\">pic.twitter.com\/U3yMC0SknR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Paul Finebaum (@finebaum) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/finebaum\/status\/1856801266846109759?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 13, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>After Kiffin departed from USC, the coach spent 3 seasons as an assistant at Alabama under Nick Saban. Kiffin then served as the head coach at Florida Atlantic for 3 seasons before landing the Ole Miss gig.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So again, I&#8217;m grateful for that, Paul. Thanks for that day, thanks for the Miley Cyrus comment,&#8221; Kiffin said jokingly.<\/p>\n<p>Kiffin picked up the biggest win of his coaching career in Week 11 when his Rebels took down Georgia. Now, Kiffin&#8217;s squad has a bye week in Week 12 before ending the regular season against Florida and Mississippi State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lane Kiffin joked with Paul Finebaum about the end of his USC tenure. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367784,"featured_media":435013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","tags":[],"class_list":["post-435408","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_types-news","teams-ole-miss-football"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/435408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}