Lane Kiffin doubled down Monday on comments he made earlier Monday at SEC Media Days, suggesting he wasn’t trolling Auburn coach Hugh Freeze earlier this summer.

Kiffin was explaining to Finebaum how the SEC Network analyst always seems to put him on the hot seat.

“I had you for half a second going to Auburn,” Finebaum said, adding to the hilarious exchange. “By the way, I don’t feel bad about what I said about you based on what you said about Hugh Freeze recently.”

Last week, Kiffin posted on X and directed those post to Freeze.

“First of all, I haven’t said one bad thing about High Freeze,” Kiffin countered. “I said something about he’s doing great in golf. His handicap is way down. That’s awesome, man.”

He then explained what he says was taken out of context.

“I’m a Hugh Freeze fan, then people say I posted a fishing picture at Hugh Freeze. They think I’m talking about golf. No, I’m not. It’s because if you know the history … he posted a picture of a 2-pound bass and was flexing at me. I was like, ‘Wait a second here.’ I sent a pic of a 50-pound fish in saltwater.”

Kiffin’s comment echoed what he told the gathered media Monday at SEC Media Days in Atlanta.

Freeze’s golfing earned criticism during June after Auburn’s 2026 recruiting class suffered a handful of decommitments. From June 1 to June 24, a period in which Auburn saw three players decommit, Freeze logged 10 rounds of golf, according to the USGA’s GHIN database.

He addressed that criticism on David Pollack’s “See Ball Get Ball” podcast last week, downplaying the effect it has had on recruiting.

Meanwhile, the Ole Miss coach’s unscheduled appearance on “The Paul Finebaum Show” didn’t disappoint as he and Finebaum broke down their at-times dysfunctional friendship.