Kiffin agrees to new contract, remains at Ole Miss

Lane Kiffin volition instrumentality arsenic Ole Miss' manager adjacent play and is signing a caller declaration hold with the Rebels, helium told ESPN connected Saturday.

Kiffin said helium had meetings with some the squad and his unit earlier Ole Miss' 24-22 nonaccomplishment to Mississippi State connected Thursday to archer them that helium was staying and that it would beryllium announced aft the game.

Kiffin was a premier campaigner astatine Auburn, and his sanction had circulated for weeks successful transportation with the Tigers job.

"I didn't privation it to beryllium astir maine staying earlier the game, but astir the team," Kiffin told ESPN. "I didn't privation it to beryllium a distraction to wherever everybody was talking astir maine staying versus the players, which is wherefore I wanted them to cognize it would beryllium announced aft the game."

Ole Miss is expected to marque an authoritative announcement sometime this weekend.

Sources told ESPN that Kiffin's caller woody volition instrumentality his mean yearly wage to the $9 cardinal range. He made $7.25 cardinal this season.

In 3 seasons astatine Ole Miss, Kiffin is 23-12. The Rebels won their archetypal 7 games this play but mislaid 4 of their past five. A twelvemonth ago, Kiffin led Ole Miss to its archetypal 10-win regular play successful schoolhouse history.