OXFORD, Miss. — Last year almost to the day, Ole Miss had an 8-1 team that was still alive in the SEC title race and the College Football Playoff when it traveled to Georgia to get a sense of where it stacked up against the nation’s elite. Ole Miss lost by 35.
After the game, a dejected Lane Kiffin was asked what would have to happen in the future for Ole Miss to be able to compete with the monsters of the SEC.
“That’s a good question,” Kiffin responded. “We have to recruit at a higher level. I’m not blaming (anyone). We have to coach better. But at some point, whatever those stats are — we have one five-star and they have signed 24 or something – those kind of show up at some point.”
Maybe that was when Ole Miss boosters took out their calculators, put them on the table, and started crunching the numbers for how much it would cost to change…
