Trinidad Chambliss Just CALLED OUT Lane Kiffin

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Trinidad Chambliss claps back at Lane Kiffin. You'll hear it next. Locked on lsu. Here we go.

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Okay, let's get it. It is Locked on lsu, your team every day. I'm your host Matt Moscona. Today's episode is brought to you by fanduel. The biggest stage in world soccer is here. Let there be goals on FanDuel. Visit FanDuel.com to get started now. Lane Kippen several months ago made now infamous comments to Vanity Fair magazine, you might recall, and it created a firestorm in May for several weeks as people reacted to those comments. And if you have forgotten effectively, Lane Kiffin was describing prospective old miss recruits and conversations that he had saying, quote hey coach, we really like you, but my grandparents aren't letting me move to Oxford, Mississippi. That doesn't come up when you say Baton Rouge, Louisiana. That's the crux of what Lane Kiffin said to Vanity Fair, referring to the the very tenuous racial history in in Mississippi and then obviously the connections to to the Rebels and the Civil War and all the things that we own. Whatever. Anyway, those conversations got an awful lot of play nationally as you'd imagine. What turned out chambless this weekend was down in Thibodeau for the Manning Passing Academy. And part of the Manning Passing Academy is not only when the college quarterbacks counsel the are the counselors for the younger players and then the college quarterbacks have their opportunity to go shine on the field, go through drills, and then there's also a media availability for all the quarterbacks in attendance. Well, John Blau, who's new on the LSU beat, covering LSU for NOLA.com times speaking and the Advocate, he replaced Wilson Alexander, who took a national job at all three. John Blau got this video. The audio is a little shaky, echoey here, but. But it's, it's intelligible. You'll be able to hear it.

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This was Trinidad Chambliss, when he was asked his reaction to Kevin's comments.

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I mean, you know, he said what he said, me, personally, I don't, I don't agree with it. When I came down on my visit, he showed me nothing but love. The people in Mississippi and Oxford showed me nothing but love. And one thing that I can really take away from my visit and the reason why I did commit to Ole Miss is I asked my family what they genuinely thought about the visit, what they thought about the people, if they trusted what they were actually saying, if they were going to be true to their word. And they said, yeah. They said, I feel like this is the right place. And my mom's super religious, too. She just had a good feeling. We prayed on it and that was the main thing. Like I said, like, I don't think that, you know what he said, truthful, honestly, I thought that, you know, Oxford community is nothing but love and they care about their people no matter what they look like, brown, black, purple, yellow. You know what I mean? So I felt like, you know, Oxford's home is a great place.

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I think that there's a lot of truth in what Trinidad Chambliss said. I. I've been Oxford. I know plenty of people who live there from there, and it is a wonderful place. It's a, it's a charming southern town. It's, it's clean, it's safe, it's got good schools, there's a SEC university there. There's a lot of great things about Oxford. I think it's a great place to raise a family if you have, you know, young children. I also think that what Trinidad is damn dabbling with, there is a little bit of revisionist history because there's nothing to agree or disagree with with respect to what Lane Kiffin said. Because Lane Kiffin wasn't giving you his opinion. Lane Kiffin was relaying conversations he had with families of recruit or with recruits about their family's opinions. There was nothing for you or me to agree with or disagree with at all. That is Lane Kiffin sharing an account or accounts that he had with recruits that affected his ability to get players to campus. Some, not all, some. And I think that's the, the point. So when Trinidad Chambliss is saying, I personally don't agree and the people at all, this has been nothing but great to me, fantastic. And I want that for everyone. I, I, I love the fact that we're at a point in our country and certainly in, in the, the Deep south, where we don't have to have conversations as often about the, the color of a player's skin or anything. Like, like just, are you a good player? I think, you know, are you a good person? Those are the things I think we all want, right? Naturally. Well, I think we've made, we're not perfect, but we made strides. But we can't lose sight of what Lane Kiffin said and how it is being interpreted. And that's, that's really the crux. And if you're an everyday, you've heard me say it before, like, I don't like revisionist history. It's the old story about how you caught the fish that was, that was this big, and by the time you tell the story 100 times, the fish is this big. Well, like, that's kind of how this is, is being interpreted a little bit. Lane Kiffin didn't say it's hard to recruit to Ole Miss because people there are racist. That's not what he said. What Lane Kiffin said was he had recruits tell him, coach, my grandparents are not going to let me go to Oxford, Mississippi. You weren't there for that conversation. I wasn't there for that conversation or conversations. Lane was. So do you think he's being truthful? And if you do. Okay. And quite honestly, if, and I don't. Wherever you're watching, listening, my guess is by the nature of the fact that you're listening to or watching this show, you have some tie to LSU in the South. If we're being completely honest, is it hard to believe that a person from another part of the country might have certain preconceived notions about a small Southern town? I, I mean, it's not, it's not that hard to believe. This isn't a political show. I'm not, I, I will never go down, down that road. I, it, I don't care how you vote conservative Democrat. It genuinely does not matter to me one iota. But throughout this country there are, there are factions where people have stereotypes and conceptions and misconceptions about places. So whichever recruit or recruits might have said that's Lane Kiffin, it doesn't mean it's true that. That that's how people are treated in Oxford. I think it's not. But it also doesn't mean that it didn't happen that somewhere someone has that concept, that preconceived notion about the south and Southern towns. So that's the part that we can't let get away from this whole thing. As people interpret or misinterpret what Lane's saying or said, and narratives get the spot, it gets spun because the quotes are in black and white. Hey, coach, we really like you, but my grandparents aren't letting me move to Oxford, Mississippi. That doesn't come up when you say Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Lane's not saying that I couldn't recruit here because people are racist. That's not what he said. He said there were recruits who would relay that to me, and he gave you a quote. So make of that what you will. Hopefully the story goes away and we can all just focus more on football, which is getting closer and closer. And that's actually something that Trinidad Chambliss did talk about in that Q A. And I do want to get to that as we continue. So stay with us here. It's locked on lsu, your team, every day. The biggest stage in world soccer is here, and every match feels like it has the potential for a memorable moment. One goal can completely change the energy of a game. It can shift momentum and alter the outcome in an instant. Well, that's what makes tournament soccer so exciting. From the opening whistle to the final kick. And now FanDuel is giving fans another reason to stay locked into every match. With every goal pays. 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Start your 7 day free trial right now and get closer to your team without the interruptions. Click the link in the show notes to claim your free trial. So Trinidad Chambliss met with reporters there at the Manning Passing Academy, and in addition to his time at Ole Miss, he also talked naturally about Lane Kiffin and LSU and Charlie Weiss. The game coming up. Hat tip to our friend Chesa Boucher from wbla a donation in Baton Rouge for this audio. Despite the fact that Trinidad Chand had a a a beef with Lane Kiffin saying what he did now, and that's maybe that's the other part of it. You can have an issue with Lane Kiffin airing the dirty laundry, so to speak, saying what he said. But let's not misconstrue what he said. But even in spite of that, Trinidad Chambla still has a lot of respect for Lincoln.

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I would say that, you know, he's, you know, really well with, you know, how he knows his X's and O's. You know, Kiffin's been, you know, in the coaching game for a while. He sees things that other coaches really can't see, which I give him props to because, you know, he'll talk to me after playing practice and I'll be like, dang, like I know you see that, or okay, that's a really good concept he'll draw on the board.

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And that's so interesting because that dovetailed into this comment where Chambliss was asked about playing LSU on September 19th. Oh, yeah. Super grateful for, you know, Coach Weiss

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and the staff that was at Ole Miss and I was at lsu. Kiff, you know, that gave me opportunity. They gave me a shot. But, yeah, I'm just super excited to, you know, kind of go up against them. I think it's going to be like a chess match.

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Throughout that whole game.

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They obviously, you know, run our offense that we run at Ole Miss, and they got a great DC over there as well. So I'm just super pumped up and excited to play them and we'll see them again. I'm going to give Coach Weiss a big hug when I see him.

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Listen, I think I've never met Trinidad Champlain. I hope to have the opportunity to do so at SEC football media days this year in Tampa. But he seems like a genuine guy.

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He has gone through an awful lot. Now you go in the. The Division 2 route all the way to Ole Miss where he's a backup, and now you're having the opportunity to. To be arguably the. The best quarterback in college football this year, maybe a Heisman contender. There was one part of that which I do think is. Is notable where, and I don't know they necessarily meant anything by it, but when Trinidad Chambla says, you know, it's gonna be a chess match, they run our offense that we run at Ole Miss. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, Trinidad. Because it is Lane Kiffin and Charlie Weiss's offense, and you functioned very well in that offense a year ago, and they're gone, and you brought in someone that you hope and you think might be able to call plays and run that offense. We'll see. No, I also believe a giant part of the reason why that offense had as much success as it did a season ago is because Trinidad Chambliss is an outstanding football player. And his improvisational skills, ability to extend plays is exactly the type of quarterback Lane Kiffin needs in this offense, and it's why they were outstanding. And LSU is going to rely on Sam Levitt to fill a similar role. And if he can, I think LSU's got a chance to be a playoff team this year. If you can't, then it's going to be really disappointing. But make no mistake about it, Trinidad, they're not running your offense. You are running their offense and the masterminds behind it who go on the whiteboard and see things at practice that you didn't even see. Yep. They're in Baton Rouge now, and I Do agree with them. It will be a fascinating chess mass match on September 19th in Oxford, Mississippi from the present to the future. And we do have a thought on Brian Kelly's new, new, new gig coming up here in a second as well. But if you notice this weekend, LSU quarterback commit Peyton Pop Houston really showed out in a big, big way at the opening finals up in Oregon. And listen, he, he won the most outstanding player, which they actually call like the alpha dog is the award, but it's the mvp. And he also won the long throw competition. It was a 67 yard pass that he threw in the long, long ball competition. Also threw a 67 yard touchdown pass to Eastern Royal. Love to see that a little bit more. I think, you know, Peyton Houston is, is such a fascinating character and test case in this era because one thing is undeniable. This is, this has nothing to do with Peyton Houston. What I'm about to say is nothing to do with Peyton Houston. It is an undeniable fact that LSU's quarterbacks who've had the most success over the last 15 years have all been transfers. Okay, you can go back to Zach Mettenberger or Danny Etling. We know Burrow and Daniels, two Heisman winners transfers. Right. We all know that before Garrett Nussmeier, the last quarterback to sign with LSU and finish their career with LSU were, were Jordan Jefferson and Jarrett Lee that did it in the same season in 2011. And then Mettenberger, of course took over in 2012. So I mean, you're talking about nearly 15 years between opportunities of players that signed with LSU out of high school and finished their career with the Tigers. So math tells you Peyton Houston is probably not going to finish his career at lsu. Like, that's not a knock on him. It's, it's just the reality of, of recruiting in college football today. If you can go get an experienced veteran quarterback, you do it. And generally if you're a young player and you're stuck behind veterans, you leave. I'm not saying that's what's going to happen with Peyton Houston. Again, this has nothing to do specifically with him. It's just the reality we all understand in college football. The thing though, that maybe gives me a little bit of optimism that Houston could be a guy that sticks and stays is, you know, he committed to LSU early in this process and has stayed committed. And I, you know, I've even had conversations with folks that even as of listen, the old staff made a decision to offer Peyton Houston. And while we've had all the Conversations about Elijah Haven and other. I mean, look, Malachi Ziegler's in the state. I mean, Colton Nussmeier was in this class. I mean, there was a lot of options that we talked about in the former staff made the. The decision to offer Peyton Houston and he committed. And the new staff came in and honored that commitment and didn't flip and recruit anyone else. Which tells you there was synergies among those staffs and what they saw in Peyton Hous. And you're starting to see a lot of that promise and potential in all of these elite camps, the opening of the Elite 11, all of it. So. But what I think is even more interesting on top of that is the sound that keeps echoing in my head is the sound bite I played for you so many times here of Lane Kiffin talking about recruiting character guys, because, you know, and I could play it again. But you've heard, you've heard me played a million times. And it's Lane Kiffin effectively saying, I challenge our guy to guys, to recruit guys with great character. It's always matter. But it matters more now because if you face adversity, most freshmen do, you can leave. And they want guys that are going to stay. So there's two components to that. Number one, you're not going to pay guys, they're going to sit the bench. And number two, you want guys that are going to be willing to come, stay, weight, grow, develop, you know, build that foundation of the program. And the fact that Peyton Houston has stayed commute committed even when LSU went and brought in three transfers in this most recent portal class, all with multiple years of eligibility remaining, you know, with two, three and four years of eligibility remaining, respectively, and for him to stay committed in this class, knowing full well that LSU is not going to dump a ton of money into the high school quarterback position. As a matter of fact, I had a conversation with someone very close to this situation who told me that when LSU honored Peyton Houston's commitment, they'd still not had the financial, the money, the nil conversation with Peyton Houston when Kiffin and his staff got here and, and brought Houston for a visit. So it's not, this is not a thing for Peyton Houston where he's looking for the biggest bag because most certainly he could go somewhere else and get that as a freshman, but it sure feels like this. And if, if you follow him on social media, I mean, he is celebrating every commit and he is acting very much as LSU's biggest drumbeat and recruiter and part of his backstory you know, as a, as a guy who transferred schools to find, you know, an opportunity in high school, sort of speaks to some degree of perseverance that he's had to go through in his high school career. But a mature young guy who clearly has great physical ability that both coaching staffs like that have allowed him to show out at at things like the opening and Elite 11. The, the knock on Peyton Houston always is going to be that he's 510 and that he's never going to be 6 foot 4. So, but that's okay. We just got done talking about Trinidad Chambliss and so it, it can work with, with shorter quarterbacks. The question is, are we going to get to see it work at lsu? Will Pop Houston come to lsu, wait his turn and then ultimately thrive like we've seen guys do in a different era? But in this era that's few and far between, maybe Houston will be the one, the one to buck that trend, follow the path that that Nussmeier did, waiting his turn and finally getting it at lsu. Well, I mentioned the former staff offered Peyton Houston. That was of course, Brian Kelly's staff. Brian Kelly has a new job, as we well know. And we'll discuss that next on Lockdown lsu. It's your team, everybody. Every day.

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so Brian Kelly will in fact call college football games for CBS this season. And Front Office Sports was the the one to, to break that news or first report that. And I think it's, first of all, I think it's, I think that is a great opportunity for Brian Kelly. I think he will thrive in that role. He, you know, Brian Kelly's a guy that has had and a, I think he's, he's fantastic with the media. The, the, the tiff after the Florida game with Michael Cobble notwithstanding. The point being, this is a guy whose background was in politics. He's a very good communicator, he's candid, he's very forthright and press conference, even talk about injuries and all that sort of stuff. And just when you look at his, his career having coached at the Division 2 level and then at all levels of the power, what's now the Power 4 or the FBS, from, you know, Central Michigan to Cincinnati to Notre Dame to lsu, I mean, a season ago when he was in the game still, he was the winningest active coach in college football. He went to 214 playoffs, a BCS championship game. We can focus on how it ended at LSU and it ended badly, obviously, but that doesn't negate the, the three decades of success he had as a head coach and experience which is going to make him, I think, a very valuable resource in the booth. And again, I think he's very comfortable on camera in front of a mic. I think he'll do outstanding. What's interesting is remember the old 230 CBS game that was the SEC on CBS, which is now the Big Ten? Well, Gary Danielson has retired, so Charles Davis is moving into that chair alongside Brad Nestler to call that Big Ten game. So that left a vacancy on a three man booth to call Mountain west games. So Brian Kelly it is, I assume there is going to end up calling Mountain west football games. And remember, the Mountain west is now even watered down further because a lot of those Mount west teams are in the newfangled Pack 12. So I don't know what games and what schools Brian Kelly's going to call, but again, he's coached at a smaller level and certainly I think can have a great appreciation of that. I think what's probably more interesting for LSU fans is less the component of Brian Kelly calling Mountain west games and more what this means for Brian Kelly's bias. Remember, LSU has agreed to pay the full $54 million for Brian Kelly's buyout. And every job that Brian Kelly gets mitigates that number. So yes, working for CBS calling games and also working on the CBS Sports Network studio coverage and CBS Sports Network weekdays program Inside College Football that will offset LSU's buyout. What LSU owes Brian Kelly, now that's not going to be a giant number, but I think what probably should stand out the most is in this hiring cycle, Kelly did not get serious consideration for any job, which probably speaks to the fact that he's not likely to return to College football. He's 64 years old and as we've talked about, he, he was seemingly not, seemingly he was not in love with this era of college football. And the day Brian Kelly got fired on this very show, I told you this, that this is, I'm gonna pull this clip. This is, I love the Internet. It's receipts. It's both good and bad. But I played, I said this on the show the Sunday Brian Kelly got fired. And I could say to you now that I have heard rumblings if Brian Kelly would be interested in doing TV and even that maybe Brian Kelly's agent has been shopping for TV opportunities. So that was the day Brian Kelly got fired. And that is something that I heard during the season, I believe. I want to be clear, this is speculative on my part. I believe Brian Kelly was not, not enamored with this era of college football, was probably not going to finish out his contract at LSU and likely would have gone and done television. I think last year was an old all in moment for LSU behind Nussmeier. All the money in that portal class, the million dollar match that Kelly did to try to go win a championship, it didn't work. Now, I obviously don't know that maybe one day Brian Kelly will talk candidly about that. On the record, I have no idea. I'm being, I'm being honest, I'm being completely speculative, but I do trust my information that Kelly's agent was shopping him for TV opportunities. Now maybe that's just doing what a good agent does, which is go get your client opportunities and leverage and whatever. But while you're in the middle of a contract to start having those, those rumblings, those whispers is interesting. And so it shouldn't be any surprise that Brian Kelly now is doing television. And I don't know, I genuinely don't know that I see a path back to coaching for Brian Kelly, at least not at the major power four level. And if he only wants to win a national championship, there's 12 to 15 jobs where it feels like that's possible. And I don't know that those 12 to 15 jobs are going to be interested in hiring Brian Kelly at 64 or 65 years old. So might be used to seeing Brian Kelly coming into our living rooms via the television here. Two, four. All right, that's gonna do it for us here on today's episode of Locked on lsu. Thanks so much for hanging out with us here. Do me a favor. If you're listening on podcast, please subscribe on your Favorite podcast app, Radis Leave a review if you're on YouTube, smash the like button. Subscribe to the channel, Hit the bell so you're notified whenever we post a new video. 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