Lane Kiffin chooses LSU
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The Rebels' head coach is always entertaining standing in front of a microphone and Saturday night was no exception.
Kiffin could have made history at a place that lifted him up as much as the other way around. Instead, he became a coaching cliche.
Kiffin is one of college football's top coaches. He has won 55 games in six years in Oxford and this season has guided Ole Miss to what is all but certain to be its first College Football Playoff appearance.
In light of the long, lurid and ludicrous history of the coaching carousel, what is it about the Lane Kiffin saga that threatens to drive college football’s hive mind to new heights of madness? The money?
New LSU football coach Lane Kiffin landed in Baton Rouge Sunday night to a crowd offering cheers of joy. A line of Tigers fans waited in anticipation outside the gates of the landing spot for his private plane. “L-S-U! L-S-U!” the fans chanted as Kiffin walked from the private jet to an SUV.
Lane Kiffin was proud of his Ole Miss team playing clean and making plays in the win over Mississippi State Friday. The two teams got into a bit of a scuffle in the first half of the Rebels’ 38-19 win in the Egg Bowl.