Kiffin and Ole Miss sued over mental health issues

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The former player suing Kiffin recorded the following conversation:

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"Ok, you have a f---ing head coach, this is a job, guess what, if I have mental issues and I'm not diminishing them, I can't not see my f---ing boss," Kiffin said, according to the lawsuit and the audio recording. "When you were told again and again the head coach needs to see you, wasn't to make you practice, wasn't to play a position you don't f---ing want to, ok? It was to talk to you and explain to you in the real world, ok? So I don't give a f--- what your mom say, ok, or what you think in the real f---ing world, you show up to work, and then you say, 'Hey, I have mental issues, I can't do anything for two weeks, but if you change my position I won't have mental issues.'

"I guarantee if we f---ing called you in and said you're playing defense, would you have mental issues?"

"I definitely would," Rollins said.

During the audio exchange, Rollins is heard saying, "I mean, you're acting like my issues aren't real."

"I didn't say they're not real," Kiffin responded. "You show up when your head -- when your boss wants to meet with you. It wouldn't have been like this. If you would've come here when you kept getting messages the head coach wants to talk to you, you say 'I'm not ready to talk to him.'"

"I wasn't," Rollins said.

"What f---ing world do you live in?" Kiffin asked.

"I don't see why you have to be disrespectful, honestly," Rollins said.

"Get out of here," Kiffin said. "Go, you're off the team. You're done. See ya. Go. And guess what? We can kick you off the team. So go read your f---ing 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, we can remove you from the team.

"It's called being a p---y," Kiffin said. "It's called hiding behind s--- and not showing up to work."

What do y'all think? Does this kid have a case or is he truly being a baby?
 
Probably both. This is how old school coaches would have likely handled someone like this. He should have shown up when summoned to meet with his coach, and if he was unhappy with his position he may well have hidden behind the issue of mental health.

However, we live in a different world and things you once could get away with don’t fly anymore. Kiffin knows this. The kid can win a case like this.
 
KIFFIN handled it well if the transcription is right. Kid needs to grow the öööö up.
I hate Ole Miss and do not like Kiffin but I agree with you. Of course, in the current effed up world who knows what will happen? Basically malcontents now have a lot of sway. I don't understand not communicating.
 
Probably both. This is how old school coaches would have likely handled someone like this. He should have shown up when summoned to meet with his coach, and if he was unhappy with his position he may well have hidden behind the issue of mental health.

However, we live in a different world and things you once could get away with don’t fly anymore. Kiffin knows this. The kid can win a case like this.
I'm with Kiffin on this. You show weakness where you have to show discipline and you risk the whole ship coming apart. The kid's a big crybaby but he can probably get a settlerment out of it and Kiffin a reprimand if they can't kiss and make up.
 
Meh, the school will pay him something just to settle the thing and make him shut up and go away. Colleges are too full of this crap today for them not to do this.
 
I hope this crashes down on Lane today and tomorrow and his team comes in unprepared and gets their asses kicked. I don't care legally one way or the other. I just want out of Oxford with a "W" and move on with the season.

True fact. We have never lost in Oxford
 
I’m on team Lane here. The “my mental health” is an overused crutch for whiny people to manipulate things to get what they want.
I don’t disagree in general but you’re also assuming this kid doesn’t have a real issue. We are only seeing one side of this. I’m not sure there’s a context here where a 50 year old guy calling an 18 year old kid a “pussy” is really productive or beneficial either.
 
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