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Talk of Champions

LIVE! From SEC Media Days: Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin

Talk of Champions

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4.7 β€’ 677 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 20 July 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Ole Miss on Thursday finally took its turn at SEC Media Days in Nashville.

But before the Rebels headed for the main ballroom β€” which has hosted coach and player representatives from all 14 league schools over the last four days β€” now-fourth year Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin stepped aside with local Rebel media to discuss a wide-range of topics, including the much-discussed and hyped quarterback competition back home in Oxford.



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0:00.0

Football fix

0:02.0

That's what we call a sack lunch

0:06.0

Mumb num num numnum

0:09.0

This off-season

0:12.0

Are you able to tell us if this is an open competition

0:15.0

What would you consider the state of the quarterback room?

0:18.0

Yeah, I'd say it's a really competitive room and it's in a much

0:24.4

better shape, which is our goal as a staff for an entire roster, but each position group

0:29.9

to try to make them more competitive and more balanced throughout each year. And that room is

0:35.7

by far the best it's been since we've been here and so we're

0:40.7

excited about camp coming up to see these guys fully healthy how would you assess kind of

0:47.2

Jackson's attitude ever since you know bringing in Spencer Sanders another talent

0:51.2

because you said how much he's improved in the spring but but his attitude towards, you know, that room getting more crowded.

0:57.6

Yeah, I think Jackson's done an amazing job.

1:00.0

He had a great spring from a play standpoint, from a leadership standpoint, from improvement,

1:06.7

throwing the ball better than he ever has.

1:09.6

So I think he's going to's gonna have a great camp.

1:13.5

Austin Simmons is a pretty unique situation. When he went out to class, was that conversation

1:19.3

you all had or was he just kind of like, hey coach I'm gonna be here this fall? No, there was a lot of

1:24.1

conversations with that and you, they had explored that option

1:30.3

and had kind of already been on track to do that at another school.

1:36.3

So they were headed that direction, but still it was open, they had not reclassified yet,

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