Lane Kiffin blasts Hugh Freeze: Will try to steal The Grove NIL staff ‘like he’s tried all of our coaches’

Hugh Freeze decided to give a compliment to Lane Kiffin and Ole Miss on Wednesday discussing the job the Rebels have done in the NIL world. On3 ranked The Grove Collective as the No. 6 collective in college football heading into the 2024 season, setting Kiffin up to have a fantastic roster.

“I think in the new world, that’s become harder and harder to do and you’re constantly searching ways with this new way of transferring and NIL to figure out exactly how to do it,” Freeze said. “I think there’s some who are doing it well, if you look at like Ole Miss and Missouri, I think they’ve done some really good things it looks like and trying to use NIL to their advantage and they’ve been able to maintain a winning edge.”

Kiffin was next up on the call, being informed of the comments being made by his fellow SEC head coach. At first, he was appreciative of what was said but then decided to call Freeze out by saying he might attempt to steal The Grove Collective’s leader, Walker Jones, away from the program.

“That is nice of Coach Freeze to compliment our management of our collective,” Kiffin said. “I’m sure he’ll try to steal Walker Jones like he’s tried all of our coaches also.”

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