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Logan Newman

‘Sustainable,’ ‘Professional sport’: 5 things Lane Kiffin said about NIL, NCAA

The college football season is long over. Class of 2022 recruitment has closed. Class of 2023 is still slow. Yet name, image and likeness has continued to headline the college sports cycle.

About a week after Nick Saban, Jimbo Fisher and Deion Sanders got into a middle-school-esque argument about who buys players, who doesn’t, and who is toeing the line of NIL rules, Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin sat down with Sports Illustrated for a discussion about NIL and how collectives are being used.

Among his messages: The NCAA should move to a professional model. After all:

“We’re a professional sport,” Kiffin said to SI. “And they are professional players.”

Here are five notable pieces of his Q&A with the outlet.

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