Several Ole Miss players have pushed back on Lane Kiffin’s parting claims that the players asked him to stay to coach them through the College Football Playoff, adding more potential controversy to an already messy split on his way to taking the head coaching job at LSU.

In his announcement on social media that he would be accepting the LSU gig, he claimed that his request to coach Ole Miss through the rest of the season was denied by the Ole Miss athletic director, Keith Carter, “despite the team also asking him to allow me to keep coaching them.”

Nevertheless, several current Ole Miss players disputed that in posts on social media.

It was sophomore offensive lineman Brycen Sanders who first posted on X, calling out Kiffin’s claim.

“‘Despite the team asking me to keep coaching’.

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