Ben Garrett. He covers

Ole Miss for

the On 3 Sports Network. You can follow him on Twitter

at Spirit Ben. He joins us now on

the Higginbotham hotline

to follow up a little bit of this

Lane Kiffin Vanity Fair article

that we spent some time discussing earlier

in the week. And then also some of the things

happening with Pete Golding on the recruiting trail.

Ben, let's start with this Vanity Fair article and some of the comments made by Lane Kiffin.

What did you leave reading that article thinking about how and why some of the things were said from the former Ole Miss Head Football Coach?

Yeah. Well, first of all, enjoy coming on with you guys thank for inviting me back on man and it's been something

obviously we've been talking about the old miss spirit and on my show talk champions all week and

uh i think i've come to the conclusion that and and i could be completely misguided but uh knowing

lane and having covered the man for six years and,

and how he kind of manipulates the media in this, like, he knew what he was doing using that kind of

language and that kind of imagery.

But for me, I think it speaks more to his just insecurity about his own roster at $40 million right now.

You know, you hear him talking about year two and year three.

He wouldn't do anything but talk about his roster.

And, you know, there's no, you know, too low for Lane.

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