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Bianchi: Lane Kiffin’s Ole Miss contract is a sad blueprint for college football’s broken system

Can we please stop pretending college football is anything other than a billion-dollar clown show held together by buyout checks, booster fantasies and athletic directors who negotiate contracts with all the fiscal discipline of a drunken lottery winner?

And nowhere is the absurdity louder, dumber, or more perfectly distilled than in the latest coaching mania surrounding Lane Kiffin — the hottest name in the “Who Wants to Overpay a Coach?” sweepstakes now captivating Gainesville and Baton Rouge.

This isn’t a Florida story. It’s not an Ole Miss story. It’s not even a Lane Kiffin story.