"He has decided yet again to see how far into the campfire he can stick his face, and this time has chosen a bessemer furnace to test his hide. Put another way, Kiffin has brought the concept of heatedly saying the word "hoe" back into mainstream conversation, which is more than can be said for any other coach in any other job."
"LSU is the 11th coaching job Kiffin has had in this century, including his assistant's gigs. It is also almost certainly the job that will break him, because LSU football is the place where insanity goes to get its doctorate. In that sense, it's an ideal fit for Kiffin, who is the perfection of shamelessness before he is anything else. Nothing interests him quite as much as the full-length mirror."
"Or did we forget that the governor of Louisiana, the supremely loopy Jeff Landry, helped fire the last guy, the finely toxic Brian Kelly, and also the athletic director who hired him, and then tried to wiggle out of Kelly's $53 million buyout before backing down when Kelly lawyered up? Or that Landry soapboxed about the obscenity of coaching contracts more or less until the moment he signed off on Kiffin's shorter deal (seven years) for more money ($90 million plus)?"
Lane Kiffin has accepted the LSU head coaching position while leaving the team he led into the college football tournament to tend to the new job instead of recruiting. He prioritizes self-promotion and shameless spectacle over traditional coaching duties. LSU represents a volatile, high-pressure environment where political interference and transactional decision-making prevail. Governor Jeff Landry helped remove Brian Kelly and challenged Kelly's $53 million buyout before retreating. Kiffin agreed to a shorter seven-year deal reportedly worth over $90 million. Recruiting at elite SEC programs is treated as a financial and institutional operation rather than a coach-driven process.
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