There was more than one plotline unfolding Saturday during Ole Miss’ win over LSU.
Appearing on the “Nonstop” program Monday following the Rebels’ 24-19 victory, Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin expanded on the off-field storyline that captivated the internet in the lead-up to the SEC clash: daughter Landry’s relationship with Tigers linebacker Whit Weeks.
“I don’t know if I would have handled it as well when I was younger, but that’s part of where I’m at, and I just embrace things, just like the portal or kids, social media,” Kiffin told Kirk Herbstreit and Joey Galloway.
“So, the TV copy was playing yesterday… and I saw the Whit stuff and the throw up and all that, I was just like, ‘This is really a movie or something, this made for TV,’ when the announcers are talking about it, ‘Landry’s romance with Whit Weeks,’ and they show his family in the stands and then he’s throwing up like 50 plays in the first half to try to tire him out, and he gets hurt and he comes back, and I’m like, ‘I feel like I’m watching a movie here.'”
Days before Saturday’s clash in Oxford, Landry made her romance with Weeks, a junior out of Watkinsville, Ga., Instagram official.
As Landry’s Instagram post spread around social media, Kiffin, 50, responded to one comment on X about his daughter’s personal life with the message: “Take the over.”
Weeks, who was caught on camera tossing his cookies in the first half, had three solo tackles against the Rebels.
Kiffin said he was unable to connect with Weeks after the game.
“I did go to try to find him, but he was already up the tunnel [at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium], and you know what it’s like on the losing side, you don’t really want, ‘Hey man, great job,'” Kiffin said.
The coach, now in his sixth season at the helm at Ole Miss, offered similar sentiments about Weeks on Wednesday’s installment of “Pardon My Take.”
“Whit’s a great kid, great family, so I look at it is, hey, how blessed are you that they’re in a good relationship with great people,” he said.
Undefeated Ole Miss will return to action on Oct. 11. against Washington State.