Lane Kiffin's greatest Ole Miss accomplishment might be an off-the-field one

Ben Garrett and Steven Godfrey each have a long, tortured history with Ole Miss football.

Garrett, though, has taken in every single snap of just the second 6-0 start to a season for the Rebels since the 60s. Godfrey — who, these days, is a national college football reporter — has gotten, at best, a two-quarter look in 2022.

No matter. Godfrey has seen enough to heap praise on the job Lane Kiffin has done going on three seasons in Oxford, including 17 wins in his last 20 games as head coach.

But he’s not just talking about program and roster-building here.

Or the yeoman’s work Kiffin’s done as a next-level brand-builder for a program now completely fashioned in his image.

(His dog is now the unofficial mascot!)

Kiffin has also completely changed the off-the-field culture, too. Godfrey explained in today’s edition of Talk of Champions, a podcast in association with the Ole Miss Spirit.

“Greater accomplishment than literally anything Lane Kiffin has ever done with a headset,” he said.

But Godfrey didn’t stop there.

He added, “I really would applaud this staff for the management of the roster here, specifically at quarterback, because we’ve seen a litany of this. We’re seeing this, actually, in bulk across the country, where guys, after four games, groups of guys are saying, ‘I’m good. I’m actually done I’m not going to play anymore.’ And telling the coach this.

“(The Ole Miss coaches) did it as well as they could in the era that they’re in. I was really impressed.”

Plus, more thoughts from Godfrey on Kiffin’s approach to what could have been a messy Ole Miss QB situation, as well as the seemingly-inevitable coaching change at Auburn.

On a scale from 1-10, how worried should Ole Miss fans actually be about the threat from the Plains?

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