The Most Hated Man in College Football Explains Himself
Monday, May 11, 2026
My plot to turn Vanity Fair into a regional Mississippi sports magazine is working! Just kidding. It’s very convenient for my pet interests that Lane Kiffin is one of the highest-paid college football coaches in the country, and perhaps the most controversial figure in the sport right now: powerful and polarizing, classic VF fodder.
Contributing editor Chris Smith zipped down to Baton Rouge to talk to Kiffin about all that, how he feels about ditching the team he built at the University of Mississippi (which, spoiler alert, Kiffin doesn’t view as an act of desertion), and why he’s loving life in Louisiana, with a $91 million contract. Some of Kiffin’s comments are bound to inflame (as an Oxford native, I can say how wonderful my hometown and the people there are), but to Chris’s point in the profile, the man courts controversy; he can’t seem to help himself.
|
CLAIRE HOWORTH,
DEPUTY EDITOR
|
The nation’s “most polarizing coach” in college football explains himself to Vanity Fair.
|
|
|
From the star-studded jury to White Lotus season four filming, here’s what to expect from Hollywood’s 12-day stop in the French Riviera.
|
This time, it’s not AI: Pope Leo XIV was spotted wearing a pair of Nike’s Franchise Low Plus trainers in a new documentary.
|
In an exclusive excerpt from Steve Jobs in Exile, go inside the explosive board meeting that left Jobs in tears.
|
|
|
Comedian Martin Short has never carried a hit movie or a long-running sitcom—but his iconic oddball characters endure in the American pantheon of funnies, said David Kamp.
|
|
|
This e-mail was sent to you by VANITY FAIR. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, vanityfair@newsletter.vf.com, to your address book.
View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe
Copyright © Condé Nast 2026. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.
|
|
|
|
|
posted by Francis Dwight at 2:05 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home