Deion Sanders' oldest son, Deion Jr., aka Bucky Sanders, shared approval of Lane Kiffin after the Ole Miss head coach verbally assaulted Paul Finebaum live on ESPN airwaves by saying Kiffin was his second favorite coach behind Coach Prime.
“Coach Lane Kiffin is my next favorite coach after my dad," Deion Jr. said on Instagram (h/t Essentially Sports).
Kiffin told Finebaum that he isn't aware of what the Birmingham-based radio host is good at; still angered by Finebaum comparing him to Miley Cyrus in 2013 before he was fired from his head coaching job at USC.
“We were playing that night and you were on ‘College GameDay’ and you had to make your big splash," Kiffin said to Finebaum at SEC Media Days (h/t The Clarion-Ledger). "They were watching it because I know the other person in the room that was watching it with them. And you said what a joke I was, I’m the Miley Cyrus of college football coaching and I should be fired. They looked at each other and later that night, I was fired.
“So you were wrong on that. I mean, you put me down with that. Really, I don’t know what you’re good at. You predicted Coach Saban was done. That didn’t happen. You basically said Miley Cyrus stinks and she’s still going.”
Paul Finebaum took shots at Deion Sanders' Colorado Buffs first
Bucky is merely defending his father and family from Finebaum -- who has repeatedly attacked Coach Prime and his Colorado program since the 2023 season ended. In one instance, Finebaum said Sanders was a celebrity coach.
In another, Finebaum tried to drive a wedge between Coach Prime and his youngest son by suggesting that the team Deion built would ruin Shedeur's chances of winning the Heisman Trophy.
Deion Jr. is merely responding to Finebaum's attacks in a subtle way to support a coach his father used to coach in the same state as. There was enough initial fire from Finebaum to the Sanders family to warrant it.