BREAKING FROM LSUODYSSEY: OLE MISS ALLEGEDLY FIXED TRINIDAD CHAMBLISS' LEGAL PROCESS TO KEEP HIM FROM LSU

Aug 23

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By LONN PHILLIPS SULLIVAN

It wasn't money that kept Trinidad Chambliss away from following his Head Coach, playcaller, and quarterbacks coach to LSU...it was an alleged corrupt guarantee by Ole Miss brass backed by no small shortage of evidence.

According to multiple sources who've spoken to LSUOdyssey over the past months, Ole Miss' retention of starting QB Trinidad Chambliss wasn't the storybook moment the university has hailed it to be.

In the wake of Lane Kiffin's departure and the rollercoaster mad dash from Ole Miss to retain assistants and players (ahead of their College Football Playoff run), the University of Mississippi's athletic department brass allegedly approached QB Trinidad Chambliss, who they felt was on his way out...leaving Oxford to follow the program's most successful coach & now sworn nemesis: Lane Kiffin.

But Ole Miss had a plan, claiming "Kiffin couldn't guarantee" Chambliss another season, specifically regarding what Ole Miss' Athletic Director allegedly called "Baton Rouge's racist justice system", claiming he would "never get another year in a Louisiana court room".

On the other hand, Ole Miss argued that if Chambliss stayed in Oxford, the Rebels would make a 6th year of eligibility happen, assuring him of a quick and easy resolution to his eligibility case for 2026....with the full endorsement of the entire state of Mississippi behind him.

On February 12th, of course it was former Ole Miss law student graduate Judge Robert Whitwell who swung the gavel and gave Chambliss his injunction, tearfully & emotionally calling out the NCAA for "acting in bad faith" by not giving Chambliss a medical red shirt earlier in his collegiate career.

Everyone already knew what happened in that court room was corrupt, however, this new knowledge of an alleged guarantee, a promise that made sure Chambliss didn't follow Lane Kiffin and Charlie Weis Jr to Baton Rouge, demonstrates how corrupt Ole Miss was willing to make a legal process in order to hold on to their quarterback...not just hoping to keep him for another season, but desperate to keep him away from LSU.

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