Leaked audio shows Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin got into a tense exchange with player over mental health
Lane Kiffin has been hit with a lawsuit for the way he handled junior defensive lineman DeSanto Rollins. The Baton Rouge, Louisiana native claims he was kicked off the team for missing practices and meetings during a “mental health crisis.” He is now suing the university and Kiffin for failure to provide equal protection, racial and sexual discrimination, and multiple other allegations, according to the lawsuit.
Well, yesterday Front Office Sports published 46 seconds from the alleged meeting, which at times became contentious, and is the center of a September lawsuit Rollins filed against Kiffin and the University.
During the audio, Kiffin does the majority of the speaking, at times raising his voice and using profanity toward Rollins.
The full transcript is as follows:
KIFFIN: If you would’ve come here when you kept getting messages that Head Coach wants to talk to you, and you say, ‘I’m not ready to talk to him.’
ROLLINS: I wasn’t.
KIFFIN: Well, what (expletive) world do you live in?
ROLLINS: I don’t see why you got to be disrespectful, honestly.
KIFFIN: Get out of here. Go. Go. You’re off the team. You’re done. See ya. See ya.
ROLLINS: Cause I’m—
KIFFIN: See ya, go. Go. And guess what? We can kick you off the team. So go read your (expletive) rights about mental health, we can kick you off the team for not showing up. When the head coach asks to meet with you, and you don’t show up for weeks? OK, we can remove you from the team. It’s called being a (expletive). It’s called hiding behind (expletive) and not showing up to work.
Do you think Lane Kiffin is wrong for this? Or was he just trying to get the kid some help ?
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