Ole Miss' run the semifinals of the College Football Playoff should be filled about storylines about the coaches who stuck around as Lane Kiffin left the team stranded to go to LSU.
Instead, each week has been filled with endless and ongoing speculation about which coaches are in Oxford helping the team prepare, which ones have stayed behind at LSU, and which ones are juggling both jobs.
Practices have become must-attend events for media simply to share which coaches are in attendance.
The latest reports today shared that tight ends coach Joe Cox and wide receivers coach George McDonald are the only two assistants that had been coming back to Ole Miss that will now remain with Lane Kiffin and LSU. Those two will not be in attendance for tomorrow's game against Miami, according to multiple report today.
While Charlie Weis Jr. has been public about the challenges that have come with recruiting and navigating the portal for LSU while also developing game plans to lead the Rebels to a national title, the tug-of-war of the other coaches between Kiffin and Ole Miss has been an understandable point of frustration among the Rebels fan base who don't want to let a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity with this roster slip away.
The storyline that has captivated the country was mentioned on the set of ACC Network earlier this evening, and the mere mention of it had former Florida State and Texas A&M head coach Jimbo Fisher shaking his head.
Asked for his thoughts after the timeline surrounding Lane's departure from Oxford was rehashed, Jimbo didn't mince words.
"It's selfish," he opened his remarks saying. "That's what it is. It is stupid."
"Here is why I say that. He wanted to coach, but didn't get his way. So he said 'Everyone get on the plane with me, or you don't have a job.' So he makes them all go."
"Then, he gets down there and takes a PR hit, because now it looks bad that you really don't care about the kids. So then he says 'Okay, you can go back.' But here is where he screwed up...he thought they were going to lose to Georgia," Fisher said, before mentioning the timing of the transfer portal opening up.
"Now he's got egg on his face because the real Lane came back out. If those guys were allowed to coach the first game they should be allowed to coach forward because those kids are doing something that you may get one time in your life to ever do. That team, and those guys, get one time."
"If you took all the assistants at the beginning and said they can't go back, then that's fine. You set the rules of the game. But you don't go changing the rules in the middle of the game."
"As a coach, it's the hurting of the kids that pisses me off."
Fisher goes on to concede that the back-and-forth of the assistants is easier in today's college football landscape because everyone is allowed to coach in practice, a change from the time when he leading the Aggies and Seminoles programs.
Hear Fisher's full thoughts in the clip.