Jemele Hill Savagely Ends Rex Ryan’s ESPN Career Over His Ridiculous Take

Jemele Hill has called Ryan Rex out for being hypocritical following his take on Lane Kiffin’s move from Ole Miss to LSU.

Kiffin announced his departure from Mississippi on Sunday, bringing an end to weeks of speculation, which even boiled over in a confrontation with a reporter that could have gotten physical.

That same reporter has since made claims of the program throwing Kiffin’s clothes out, given that he’s now public enemy No. 1 over there.

The head coach will continue to face criticism over the move, but Rex Ryan, a former coach himself, has defended the decision.

“Big picture take is I don’t blame Lane Kiffin for going after it. I mean, look at the landscape of college football, which I think is absolutely abysmal. Not just the calendar, but the fact you let kids bail all the time. Free agents. You know what? I’m gonna make more money if I go to this place or whatever?

What is the difference? To people that are killing Lane Kiffin, he’s the one that built that program. He’s the one. His leadership. His talent as a football coach and the guys he hired all that time of stuff,” he said on ‘Get Up!’ this week.

Rex Ryan Says Anyone Would Do What Lane Kiffin Did, Jemele Hill Disagrees

Jemele Hill (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images
Ryan also suggested that it’s easy to villainize Kiffin right now, but that anyone would have done the same in his place.

“So, look, does he look like a monster? It’s easy for all of us to say, ‘Oh hell no. He should’ve stayed.’ All that kind of stuff,” he continued.

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“That’s not the real world, because everybody that’s saying it would have chased that job at LSU and the way more money and everything else that that job brings. So, to me, no. He is not the monster in this case.”

Hill, who’s very much in tune with the sports landscape despite her departure from ESPN, has since taken to social media to rip Ryan over his comments.

She suggested that the former New York Jets head coach had no place defending Kiffin if he was going to criticize players for the same thing.

“Rex Ryan really sat there and defended Lane Kiffin and in the same breath criticized college players for leveraging similar opportunities. Lane Kiffin has done this multiple times. Brian Kelly and another coaches have done it, too. They were doing this before NIL ever came into play. Thee hypocrisy,” she wrote.

Of course, she’s hardly the first person to criticize Ryan in recent weeks. The ESPN analyst often finds himself in such a position with his takes, especially when discussing Shedeur Sanders.

He was never going to be ignored after speaking up for a coach.