College Football World Reacts To Lane Kiffin’s Controversial Move To Lsu

Lane Kiffin is leaving Ole Miss to go nan caput coach astatine LSU.

After a weeks-long saga, nan 50-year-old has made his decision, and he’ll caput to Baton Rouge to return complete 1 of nan premier programs successful assemblage football. He leaves down an 11-1 Rebels squad that is virtually assured a spot successful nan College Football Playoff.

It is simply a bold move from Kiffin, and clip will show if it’s nan correct decision. Over nan past 48 hours, reports propose things turned ugly betwixt nan seasoned caput coach and Ole Miss, arsenic he pushed to coach nan squad done nan playoff. That is not happening.

Here is Kiffin's charismatic statement:

There were beardown reactions to Kiffin’s determination and behaviour connected societal media. Few were connected his side.

Kiffin arrives astatine LSU pinch a agelong way grounds of occurrence arsenic a assemblage caput coach.

After years arsenic an adjunct nether Pete Carroll astatine USC, Kiffin was hired arsenic nan caput coach of nan then-Oakland Raiders successful January 2007. He lasted 20 games, going 4-12 successful his first play earlier being fired aft a 1-3 commencement successful 2008.

Shortly aft nan Raiders sent him packing, Kiffin was hired arsenic Tennessee’s adjacent coach. His stint successful Knoxville was brief. After a 7-6 run successful 2009, he near to return to USC, wherever he coached for 4 seasons. Despite nan crippling sanctions from nan Reggie Bush scandal, Kiffin led nan Trojans to a 10-2 grounds successful 2011 and a No. 6 ranking successful nan AP poll. That was nan highest of his occurrence successful L.A. After a 3-2 commencement successful 2013, he was fired, finishing his clip location pinch a 28-15 record.

Kiffin rehabbed his image during 3 seasons arsenic Alabama’s violative coordinator and quarterbacks coach. Those years nether Nick Saban led Florida Atlantic to prosecute him arsenic its caput coach connected December 12, 2016.

The Owls turned things astir dramatically nether Kiffin. In his first season, FAU went 11-3 and won nan Conference USA title. The squad took a measurement backmost successful 2018, finishing 5-7, but successful 2019, they were fantabulous again, going 10-3 and winning nan convention title again. Kiffin near earlier nan team’s vessel crippled arsenic Ole Miss hired him away, but had a 26-13 grounds astatine FAU.

Kiffin’s tenure successful Oxford started slowly. The Rebels went 5-5 successful 2020, but things turned astir soon aft that. They person deed double-digits successful wins during 4 of nan past 5 seasons, person 3 apical 15 finishes, and boast a Peach Bowl triumph during nan 2023 campaign. This twelvemonth has been Kiffin’s masterpiece, arsenic Ole Miss is 11-1, 7-1 successful conference, and is virtually guaranteed a spot successful nan College Football Playoffs. Overall, he is 55-19 (.743) astatine Ole Miss, and 32-17 successful nan SEC.

During his 14-year assemblage caput coaching career, Kiffin has gone 117-53 (.688) and established himself arsenic an elite violative mind and recruiter. He arrives astatine LSU pinch an astronomical level of hype.

Now he has to unrecorded up to it.

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