Hello, friends. Welcome inside at least for me, Ben Garrett, the Riverland Roofing Studios. Riverland Roofing for all your rooping needs, 66624-4-4-2-97. We're live here from the Riverland Roofing Studios, waiting on Ryan Scott Rippey, who wrote a great story yesterday, a very pointed and targeted story yesterday about the whole Lane Kiffin situation titled,

What is Lane Kiffin chasing? So waiting on Rippy to come in, but wanted to go ahead and fire up the live stream. Thank you for joining us. If you haven't already subscribed, review, Talk of Champions, and iTunes, wherever you get your podcast. And when you do, leave a five-star review. We're brought to you by, of course, Riverland Roofing, 662-644-4-2-297, Riverlandroofing.com. A few, if any, are doing more for Ole Miss and the name, image, and likeness space than Riverland Roofing. And I know Billy and them are busy off right now as all this lane stuff happening, trying to get some answers for themselves. So thank you for joining me.

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Could be.

Could be.

But as of this morning, we're still in the same place, still in the exact same place.

Lane is in the decision-making process.

We got his press conference at 1230.

So whenever I get done with Rippy, I'll have to race over to Oxford from here in New Albany and go ask some questions. But yes, I'm headed over that way. One of the questions I'm going to ask him point blank is if there's anything you could change about how the last few weeks could play out in your role in it, what would that be? But if you all have some suggestions, man, we're all ears. I'm now welcome my guy.

Brian Scott Rippy into Talk of Champions, the box next to the box, and he's got some nice, like, Sports Illustrators in the background. See a little Trey Elston up there. Hey, Rip. What's up? How are you? It's an honor to spend my lunch break with you, man. I'm good. well dude you can't write fire like that yesterday not expect some people want to talk to you

you know what I mean? Oh, I appreciate it. I was, I meant it genuinely. But, yeah, it's all, all good. My mother-in-law designed this space behind me. So she'll be, she'll be pleased that you complimented it. Yes. You tell her that. You tell us she did a great job because I know you and I figured if we're up to you, it'd be like bare walls. You know what I mean? Very, very basic, right? I'm colorblind. I don't have a prayer. Wait, are you really colorblind? Yeah, partially. How did I not know that? I mean, it's not at like a top of the resume thing where I'm like, my name's Brian Ripett. I'm colorblind, but, uh, yeah, I guess, I guess if it ever came up, I'd have to mention it. Oh, well, that was really friggin funny. Rip, all right. So let's jump into it, man. I got to get to Lane's press conference at 1230. You've got to get back to actual work.

You wrote about this last night, just your whole take of the Lane Kiffin situation. What is Lane Kiffing chasing? And I read the whole thing. And, man, I would encourage all of you to go to Ripy Substack. Rippy Wrights. He's so good at this. Baby bro is like so much better at writing than me, man.

And I love reading this stuff.

And, man, I think you really expressed or at least brilliantly conveyed for a lot of people, the feelings of a lot of people, right? Old Miss fans in particular going through this right here. Now, first and foremost, where do you kind of see the Lane Kiffin situation? And then we're going to dive in some other stuff. Yeah, I don't, I mean, I have no idea what's going to happen. I wrestle with like two different aspects of it. Is like, is this guy actually going to leave a playoff team to go somewhere else to what he perceives is a better job? I mean, it'd be one thing, like, if he'd made the playoff here and they didn't have the horses to compete, but he's, he's never done this. I don't, I don't understand how you can, like, feel as if you've reached a ceiling at a place before you, like, ever actually, like, reach the next mark. It doesn't make any sense to me. So is he actually going to have the

stomach to do that? Because all of this goodwill he's built up over the last few years and

talking about how he's changing all that would go out the door immediately. That'd be a pretty

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