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LOOK: Lane Kiffin arrives in Omaha for College World Series

Wade-Peeryby:Wade Peery•06/18/22
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Ole Miss head football coach Lane Kiffin hasn’t been shy about voicing his support for the Rebels’ baseball team in this year’s NCAA Tournament. On Saturday, he made the trip to Omaha, Nebraska to support their baseball team in the 2022 College World Series. Auburn and Ole Miss face-off on Saturday night at 7:00 PM EST.

Check out his picture below with his family.

The Ole Miss baseball team punched their tickets to the College World Series this year for the first time since 2014. The Rebels advanced to Omaha after completing a sweep of the Southern Miss Golden Eagles in the Hattiesburg Super Regional by a combined score of 15-0.

As for Kiffin, he’s a social media darling and knows how to generate buzz day to day better than just about any other head coach in college athletics. He’s also not been shy at all about sharing his opinion on NIL and the transfer portal in the past year.

Kiffin not confident SEC transfer portal deadline will change

While speaking about a proposal to move the SEC deadline for intraconference transfers, Lane Kiffin wasn’t confident the change would pass.

The SEC currently requires all transfers within the conference to be final before Feb. 1 in order to be immediately eligible for that season. The new proposal put forth by Alabama would have the SEC move that deadline to May 1 — lining up with the NCAA transfer portal rules and eliminating the special deadline date.

“Lane Kiffin guesses Alabama’s SEC rule change proposal will not pass that would push the intraconference transfer deadline from Feb 1 to May 1,” stated ALdotcom’s Mike Rodak. “Kiffin: ‘Someone kind of joked, they’re not going to put their spring game on TV’ because they’d be showcasing their players to poach.”

The proposal from Alabama would allow schools in the SEC to recruit transfer players much later into the offseason, after the beginning of spring. Currently, the SEC deadline lines up with national signing day, leaving students who wish to transfer out of their schools with very little time if they wish to remain in the SEC.

Kiffin expressed that he would rather keep the deadline how it is — but added that he wouldn’t speak for any other schools on the issue.

On3’s Austin Brezina and Nikki Chavanelle also contributed to this article.