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COLLEGE FOOTBALL IS RIGGED: Lane Kiffin just pulled off the most BLATANT cash grab in sports history, PROFITING from a team he ABANDONED. While Ole Miss players bled on the field, their former coach was counting a $250,000 CHECK from his NEW employer for THEIR win. This isn’t loyalty; it’s a SICKENING new low where coaches are paid to BETRAY.
In a SHAMELESS clause buried in his LSU contract, Kiffin secured a deal where HE gets PAID—up to ONE MILLION DOLLARS—for every playoff win his former team secures WITHOUT him. This isn’t a bonus; it’s a BRAZEN conflict of interest that exposes the ROTTEN core of amateur athletics. The very institution meant to champion school spirit now incentivizes managerial ABANDONMENT.
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LSU new head coach Lane Kiffin speaks at South Stadium Club at Tiger Stadium on Dec. 1, 2025. (Matthew Hinton/Imagn Images)
Insiders are FURIOUS, calling this a “parasitic payout” that turns student-athletes into unwitting cash cows for departed executives. As Kiffin offered a hollow “congratulations” on social media, the reality is clear: he’s LAUGHING all the way to the bank, his loyalty auctioned to the highest bidder. Meanwhile, the new Ole Miss coach, Pete Golding, is left to clean up the mess, desperately trying to manufacture “swag” for a program whose soul was just SOLD.
This is MORE than a scandal; it’s a BLUEPRINT for how modern sports executives VIEW the games: as a cynical, exploitative marketplace. The message to every player and fan is DEVASTATINGLY clear: your sweat, your tears, and your tradition are just someone else’s quarterly bonus. If this is the future of college football, then the very concept of ‘team’ is officially DEAD.
Tulane football coach Jon Sumrall, left, and Mississippi football coach Pete Golding confer prior to the first half of the first round of the NCAA College Football Playoff, Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025, in Oxford, Mississippi. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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The system isn’t just broken—it’s actively rewarding the betrayal at its heart. As the checks clear and the press conferences drone on, ask yourself one harrowing question: what else are they getting paid for that we don’t know?
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Fox News’ Chantz Martin contributed to this report.
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