The coaching carousel always circles back to Nick Saban. For years, we’ve been promised the “next Nick Saban” from his legendary coaching tree. Kirby Smart actually delivered at Georgia with back-to-back national titles, while others like Jimbo Fisher flamed out spectacularly. But now Stephen A. Smith just went on record saying Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin has “the potential to be another Nick Saban.” And it’s worth paying attention to.

Smith dropped that bomb during a discussion about Kiffin’s future on ESPN’s First Take. “The brothers ain’t trying to come to Oxford, Mississippi, for the most part, compared to Gainesville or Baton Rouge, Louisiana,” Smith said bluntly on air. “Let’s just call it what it is. You look at the job that Lane Kiffin has done at Ole Miss, it’s phenomenal.

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