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Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin is always entertaining at SEC Media Days and open to answering almost any question thrown at him.
But this question about SEC boosters even sent out a red flag to Kiffin that kept him from answering Thursday.
Q. You mentioned boosters, and the most aggressive and richest boosters will get the best players. Where do Ole Miss boosters rank in the SEC and can you rate the two or three most impactful transfers you got?
LANE KIFFIN: I am not about to start putting rankings out on boosters from top to bottom in the conference (Laughter). God, I want to so bad, though (Laughter). The Commissioner said, remember, we’ve grown a lot and you don’t have to respond to every question to show everybody you have the answer. So I’m going to do that on this situation.
But like I said kind of before, you want to look at the best boosters in the country and eventually the schools that have the most money that decide to pay the players, just look at recruiting rankings the next few years. That will give you your answer.
Because again, it is what it is, guys, and you can’t fault them. You’ve got 18-year-old kids deciding where to go. The No. 1 thing they decide on is money, their salary. I think you guys would have done that when you’re 18. You can’t fault them. You see some kids, why is that kid going way over there? Going there because you’re making more money.
So you can’t fault them for that. That’s the setup that they are in.
