The KIFFIN SAGA! Lane Kiffin Introduced Monday in Baton Rouge as the NEW HC of the LSU Tigers-

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00:00Anyway, Texas was not the story of the weekend,

00:06although Sark has been on everything to talk his team up, as he should.

00:11He was on Cal Herd, said,

00:12I unequivocally believe we should be a playoff team,

00:15as he should fight for his team.

00:18But Lane Kiffin in the SEC was the big story,

00:21and he just had his introductory news conference in Baton Rouge with LSU.

00:27Here is Lane, this just happened.

00:31Here is Lane getting introduced as the head coach of LSU.

00:36I'm very honored to be the head coach of LSU.

00:40I can sum it up by saying this, this place is different.

00:43And having watched this place for a long time,

00:46having been on the other sidelines in this stadium,

00:49this place is different, and that's why we're here.

00:51We have a lot of work to do with that.

00:52But I'm very grateful for the opportunity to lead one of the elite programs

00:57in all of sports.

00:59Leaving Ole Miss was an extremely difficult decision.

01:03And in that, we tried every single thing possible

01:06to continue to coach the team through the playoffs

01:09and to continue to coach the players.

01:11In the end, that was their decision, and we totally respect that

01:15and appreciate the time and energy that we tried to figure out a plan

01:19to do the best thing at the time for those players.

01:22The last six years of my life have been the best six years of my life,

01:25and I owe that to all the players, all the assistant coaches,

01:29and the people of Oxford.

01:30But the opportunity at LSU, as I said before, is just different.

01:34It is just different.

01:36Best job in college football.

01:37Well, I'm sure the Ole Miss people feel great having to hear that.

01:42But the last six years were the best six years of his life.

01:45Clint, I know a lot of people are – I think a lot of the Lane issues

01:49come from a lot of stuff Lane has done in the past,

01:54and even a little bit here.

01:57But to me, Lane Kiffin took a better job.

02:01And I've sat here with you, Clint.

02:02You have covered college football in the SEC for years,

02:05and you think LSU is at worst a top five job in the league

02:11or in college football that people covet?

02:15It's one of the best jobs when you talk about the ability to recruit,

02:19the players, the money.

02:22They're going to give him a budget of $25 million.

02:24It's been reported for NIL to go out and get players.

02:27Listen, he took a dream job.

02:32And the way that the college football schedule and the dates come about,

02:40it forces him to make a decision to either take the dream job in that place

02:48or be the one that looks like an a-hole for leaving players

02:54in the middle of the season.

02:56And I don't think he's an a-hole for leaving the players

02:59in the middle of the season.

03:01I think the schedule and the dates force him to even look more of an a-hole

03:05than Lane Kiffin needs.

03:06Lane doesn't need help being an a-hole.

03:08And this scheduling makes him feel that way.

03:11And he didn't screw the players.

03:12It's like those players were going to leave him.

03:15Lane would have been a fool to not take this job.

03:19Absolute fool.

03:19I mean, people can talk about other coaches staying

03:23and using it just to get more money at their respective spot.

03:29This is a different animal in so many ways.

03:34If you're interested in winning national titles,

03:38he just removed some immovable hurdles, if you will,

03:44that exist at Ole Miss.

03:45The path is so much easier to get a championship-caliber program,

03:55players, support, everything around it at LSU

03:59than it is in 99.9% of places.

04:02I mean, it's just different.

04:04I agree with you, man.

04:05It's just different.

04:05You get a chance to not only become one of,

04:08if not the highest-paid coach in football,

04:10and you get to do it there, yeah, you've got to take that one.

04:12Yeah, and it's just a tough situation,

04:17and I think this is a situation, Clint,

04:20we're going to run into a lot more, right,

04:22to steal a word that Tyler said.

04:25Hey, man, if your team is going to the Pop-Tart Bowl

04:29or the Cheez-It Bowl or the Duke's Mayo Bowl

04:34or the Citrus Bowl, whatever, that feels different than,

04:38all right, man, there are 12 teams that have a shot to go

04:41and play for a national championship,

04:43and we're going to start to run into that

04:46because whenever teams like LSU and Florida

04:49or Penn State are looking for new coaches,

04:52they're probably looking for coaches

04:54that are either at the same level as them

04:56or maybe just below like an Ole Miss.

04:59Well, Ron, the beautiful thing about this,

05:02the beautiful thing about the Lane Kiffin saga, if you will,

05:05is that I believe college football will change

05:09for the better in response.

05:12I don't know how the NCAA doesn't put some kind of guardrails

05:17in place to keep this from happening, right?

05:19You always say, like, they allow it, they allow it,

05:21they allow it, then all of a sudden

05:22something really extreme forces you to change.

05:25I think this is that.

05:27They're going to have to change the schedule.

05:28Nick Saban's on college game day talking about it.

05:31Obviously, we're listening to Lane Kiffin.

05:33Clearly, you can see what happens to the program,

05:36the kids, the fan base, the student body,

05:39the administration, the University of Ole Miss.

05:42I mean, it's – the good thing is I think

05:47we're going to see some change.

05:49It's got to be, man.

05:50Well, it's not – this isn't one of those

05:52where you're asking for change that takes money

05:54out of kids' pockets or takes money out of coaches' pockets.

05:57Like, those are going to be very difficult.

05:58Like, changing NIL and it's – and kind of like what it is,

06:02that's not going to happen.

06:03That's going to take time and some real controversy.

06:06But saying, hey, man, a coach and a player cannot leave

06:10until the college football playoffs are wrapped.

06:13You hand – the minute you hand a trophy to somebody,

06:15a national championship trophy to somebody,

06:16then everybody – all is fair.

06:18And recruiting, too.

06:19All of them, yeah.

06:20Players and coaches.

06:21Yes.

06:21Signing day needs to be moved back because what –

06:24what is it?

06:24Early – was it January?

06:26Well, you can –

06:26During the bowl season.

06:27You can do what you want.

06:28You can do what you want with signing periods for high school athletes.

06:32I don't care what you do with them.

06:33I'm – the transfer portal and the coaches being able to –

06:39or being forced into positions to make decisions like this

06:42has got to change.

06:44Like, you can't – you can't have kids threatening

06:47and holding programs hostage for more money

06:49before the damn college football playoffs start.

06:52You can't have coaches exiting the building for teams that have worked

06:56all year long to get to the college football playoffs

06:59and they're assured they're locked in.

07:02Hell, they may have a – they got a home – they got a home field game

07:04the first – or at least they would have had a home – a home game

07:07in the college football playoffs.

07:09You can't have this happening.

07:10I think this is just so extreme.

07:11I think the – I think the NCAA ends up responding,

07:15and I think that it ends up impacting transfer portal as well,

07:18which is going to end up being beautiful.

07:19Yeah, I hope so.

07:22It is – it is – it is wild.

07:25It is wild to me that this has just been – it's been –

07:29hey, man, we've got a situation where a season happens

07:32where just by the dates there's a potential of –

07:36you don't get – you don't finish out your season.

07:38It's a shame, but it's a shame, Ron.

07:41It's so dysfunctional, the NCAA is,

07:46is that you didn't see this coming.

07:48You didn't make changes before it got to this.

07:51Like, you could have done this a year ago and said,

07:53look, this is what we're going to be up against if we leave it the way it is.

07:55We've got to get this fixed.

07:57But they don't.

07:58And they allow teams that have – their programs have fallen to a point

08:02where they're firing guys and paying them $50 million to leave.

08:05Those teams, those programs, different programs year in, year out,

08:09those programs are – I mean, impacting, crowning a champion every year.

08:17It's not just this year with Lane Kiffin.

08:18This is just the outlier.

08:19I mean, it's every year.

08:20Yeah.

08:21It's rough.

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