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The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/harionfire on 2024-11-02 03:41:24+00:00.
Back in 2021, Lane Kiffin, Jimbo Fisher and Nick Saban were all asked what their thoughts on the fake injury situation were. Back during this time, Kiffin approached the SEC asking them to do something about it and was basically told “we’re not going to do anything”.
His quote when asked about it in 2021:
“It’s been talked about for years. … I said, ‘Well, I can tell you I don’t think you’re going to really stop that until you make it the guy has to stay out for so many plays.’ There’s gotta be a penalty to it. If you really want to change it, let the conference review it — look at the film,” stated Kiffin. “If they deem it to be an obvious faking of an injury, then there’s a penalty … a fine. Then, I promise you it would never happen anywhere.”
When he was brushed off about the issue, it’s my belief that that’s when he started to really lean into it. That seems to be how he does things. He has leaned very hard into the NIL environment despite his vocal opposition as to how it’s been implemented.
I’m emphatically in favor of this change. And I know Kiffin has gotten a lot of heat over it. But I wonder if there wasn’t some aspect to this we haven’t broadly considered: he might have been doing this for a reason beyond how we see it. This isn’t me defending the act, so for those of you that root for teams that this has affected, please take no offense. But this seems plausible because this all began after he had asked them to make a change and they blew him off.