There are increasing whispers that Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin will leave the Rebels after the current season to take another job. Reports have linked him to potential vacancies at Florida and LSU. The speculation is fueled by reports that Kiffin’s family toured facilities in Baton Rouge and is planning a visit to Gainesville.

To the surprise of absolutely nobody, ESPN sports opinionist Stephen A. Smith analyzed the situation regarding a potential vacancy at Ole Miss and made it about race.

“Listen, I’m going to bring it home: He’s in Oxford, Mississippi. OK? Let’s get this out of the way,” Smith said during a segment of ESPN’s “First Take” on Wednesday. “Now listen ladies and gentlemen, I’m going to say it, y’all can’t say it.”

“Leave it to me. I’ll say it! The brothers ain’t trying to come to Oxford, Mississippi for the most part, compared to Gainesville or Baton Rouge, Louisiana,” he argued. “Let’s just call it what it is.”

Finebaum rips Smith about Ole Miss comments

Paul Finebaum, a colleague of Smith’s at ESPN, strongly criticized the remarks on his radio show, calling them “clearly racial” and “completely incorrect.”

“Completely incorrect” is basically Smith’s entire career in a nutshell.

Finebaum contends that Stephen A.’s remarks unfairly evoked the segregated past of Oxford and Mississippi while ignoring how the South has changed.

“He clearly made it racial,” Finebaum said on his radio show. “He clearly said, in his words, ‘The brothers do not want to go to Oxford, Mississippi,’ which has been proven to be completely incorrect.

“I’ve been to Oxford a million times, and I think it’s terribly unfair to bring up echoes of yesteryear, the ’60s, and try to portray Oxford as that type of place today. It’s not,” he continued. “The south has changed.”

Finebaum said that ripping on Oxford while claiming “brothers” prefer Florida and LSU “was just baffling to me.”

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It’s what he does

This is nothing new for Stephen A. Both being “completely incorrect” and injecting race into every story he possibly can. It’s how you know somebody is not very bright. To seek out the lazy, tired response to every single story.

Just weeks ago, Smith ripped the Miami Dolphins for mutually parting ways with longtime general manager Chris Grier after a quarter century with the organization.

“This is BS. That’s the first fire? Really? That’s what we’re doing?” Smith fumed. “It was about Tua (Tagovailoa), it was about Mike McDaniel. And the brother gets fired first?”

Smith missed the fact that A) Grier was with the club for 25 years, they definitely did not release him for being black, and B) McDaniel is still the coach, and he’s biracial.

It wasn’t all that long ago that Smith accused the Washington Commanders of hiring Kliff Kingsbury as their offensive coordinator because he’s not black.

Now, it’s denigrating the entire city of Oxford in his feeble-minded analysis of Ole Miss.