'We are excited he decided to come. He’s a very talented player with tremendous upside' - Lane Kiffin on Freshman QB Austin Simmons NealMcCready with more from Southeastern Conference Media Day:
Lane Kiffin was in his element Thursday at Southeastern Conference Media Days in Nashville.
“And now we are seeing you really can get paid three times if you want to. You can get paid coming out of high school. You can one-time transfer, go in, get the most money and get paid again. And then you can grad transfer and then get paid again. Eventually you'll not be able to do that, I would think, and have that leverage every semester to be able to do that. I've told them it's an awesome time for them.
“So they say revenue sharing would make it an equal playing field, which is what the NCAA always wants to do, make things an equal playing field. Well, obviously what we described with no salary cap and everybody operating off different budgets, that's not anywhere close. I don't know that that fixes it.
Kiffin said Oklahoma State transfer Spencer Sanders is “100 percent” healthy now after battling shoulder issues in the spring. He also had high praise for incumbent starter Jaxson Dart, who had a terrific spring for the Rebels. “I think I said at the beginning of free agency when this whole thing was set up that you were going to have some culture challenges as you flip your roster like this,” Kiffin said. “Some of it is under your control and some of it is not under your control because kids leave. It’s not ideal to have 40 scholarships of your 85 guys to be brand new. It was a challenge last year and I didn’t handle it well at the end.
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