Paul Finebaum scorches Lane Kiffin for playing 'victim' card

There’s no action on the field just yet in college football, but there’s plenty in the dialogue department. Lane Kiffin’s highly controversial departure from Ole Miss to LSU has kept the offensive-minded head coach firmly in the spotlight, and squarely on the radar of ESPN college football analyst Paul Finebaum.

On a recent episode of “The Paul Finebaum Show”, he took issue with Kiffin’s perceived need to communicate that he has been wronged in some way.

“What’s really interesting about this, Earl, is that Lane Kiffin is the one who betrayed Ole Miss,” Finebaum said. “Lane Kiffin is the one who left a bunch of broken hearts, and he’s acting like the aggrieved one here…. He just couldn’t resist going as low as possible. He’s a smart guy. He knew that line. He could back it up because it’s been said before, but he also knew how controversial it would be. It’s in his DNA.”

Finebaum was alluding to Kiffin’s comments about not being able to recruit as well as he had hoped when he was at Ole Miss.

It continues a run of critical comments by Finebaum about how Kiffin has handled his departure from one SEC school to another, and it seems unlikely Finebaum will turn down the heat anytime soon.

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