Tim Brando Blasts Lane Kiffin Over Ole Miss Diversity Remarks

Lane Kiffin drew fire this offseason after telling Vanity Fair that Ole Miss lost recruits due to a lack of diversity on campus while he coached there. He also said parents of recruits preferred LSU's campus because "it feels like there’s no segregation."

The next day, Kiffin walked back the statements. He said he meant no ill will toward Ole Miss and described his words as factual, not attacks on the school.

College football commentator Tim Brando rejected the apology. The Louisiana native spoke with OutKick's Dan Dakich about Kiffin's interview.

"I'm up to here with it, Dan," Brando said. He noted that Kiffin chose a wide, liberal audience for the interview, which would run with the comments and stereotype the South as it always does.

Brando argued this disproves Kiffin's claim of no harm intended. He said Kiffin knew what he was doing and to whom he was speaking.

"For those of us that were alive when John F. Kennedy was killed, and Martin Luther King was killed, and understand what the Jim Crow South was about," Brando said, "I'm a part of it, we don't need to be reminded of it, we lived through it. Where the hell was Lane?"

Brando called the remarks wrong for reigniting old tensions. He has daughters enrolled at both LSU and Ole Miss and warned the rhetoric could cause trouble down the road.

"When you start talking about these kinds of issues, you can't expect all of the fans to perceive it the way he wants them to perceive it," Brando said.

Brando reserved harsher words for Kiffin's apology to On3 the day before. "And that God-awful apology he tried to submit to On3 yesterday... was a pathetic response," he said. "It's offensive period. Don't go there."

Brando pinned the comments on Kiffin's narcissism. "His own narcissism would not allow him to get through that interview with, once again, not trying to justify abandoning a team that he was coaching that was on the precipice of playing for and maybe even winning a national championship."

"You got the job. You got the $91 million. Shut up! We've heard enough," Brando added.