Lane Kiffin's son faces Arch Manning-style scrutiny after eye-opening high school blowout
We're getting down to the nitty-gritty portion of the high school football season. This time next month, the playoffs will be in full swing across the U-S-of-A.
That means we're in the stretch run. Some teams are making one final postseason push. Others are resting up for November (and hopefully December). We have districts up for grabs, at-large bids at stake, and seeding implications everywhere.
Which brings us to Louisiana, where none of that really happened in Friday's game between University Lab and Collegiate.
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For those who don't know, Knox Kiffin — the son of LSU head coach Lane Kiffin — plays QB for University Lab. The junior has offers from several schools already, including Syracuse, Missouri and Georgia Tech. He's still young, but getting better, as you're about to see.
I've taken it upon myself here at OutKick to highlight at least one high school football play/ player/ story each and every Saturday during the season. These guys are all about to be millionaires with the silly NIL rules, so we might as well get ahead of the curve and start identifying them early.
So far this season, we've seen (arguably) the country's top running back do incredible things in Tennessee on multiple different occasions, a wild Hail Mary in Florida, an entire California team get suspended because the mascot shot the bird to some fans, and a giant running back in Kentucky.
Today, we're gonna check in with Knox Kiffin and the Cubs, who are both going viral today for absolutely destroying a team, 62-0, Friday night:
Lord have mercy, what a mismatch. I've covered a lot of high school football over the years, and I don't know that I've seen so much talent disparity on the same field.
Well, that's probably not true. I've definitely seen games like this one where it's pretty evident from the opening kick that we're about to get a running clock. But still...
Look at that pass rush Knox is having to face! That's stunning. I'm not knocking the throw, which was dropped in the bucket, but what's the deal there? Why aren't those guys even attempting to rush the quarterback? I don't get it.
And how about the hit at the goal line on the second touchdown pass? That receiver sends that poor defender into next week at the pylon. Brutal.
This will naturally raise questions about Knox Kiffin in the same way it does about Arch Manning. Every time Arch has a bad game, old videos from the competition he faced in high school go viral because he wasn't exactly facing the '85 Bears.
Right on cue, look at the first comment under the above post:
"This dude is the next arch manning, lmao. What’s this competition he’s playing against?"
Like clockwork.
It's probably a fair point to raise given how bad it looks. I get it.
But, also ... Knox has looked pretty darn good at times this season. He's also got a pretty decent teacher in his ear, despite what some may think of Lane Kiffin.
I think he'll be OK.