Lane Kiffin Chooses LSU: A $91 Million Game Changer

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00:00And the biggest name on the board was Lane Kiffin.

00:02Where is he going to go?

00:03Is it LSU?

00:04Where is he going to go?

00:04Is it Florida?

00:05Will he stay at Ole Miss?

00:06Well, Joe, he chose LSU, and the ramifications for LSU getting him are what?

00:11Well, I think a legitimate winner, right?

00:14And national championship aspirations.

00:16Look at him, Joe.

00:18Back in Baton Rouge.

00:19I mean, it's a seven-year deal, $91 million,

00:22but they guaranteed potentially $25 million for a roster,

00:26something that Brian Kelly only had $18 million.

00:28What a difference a year makes, right?

00:30$7 million in the kiddie to potentially get elite talent.

00:34And we know that Lane Kiffin in today's landscape is one of the best recruiters

00:38in college football.

00:39He gets it.

00:40He elevates his players.

00:42He elevates his program and his staff, and that's why he's a hot commodity.

00:46Now, news came out of Baton Rouge late last night from Kiffin and the school.

00:50They paid their defensive coordinator, Blake Baker, $3 million to stay in Baton Rouge

00:57and take care of that defense.

00:58That's a huge addition because, again, you're going to lose a DC that has major talent

01:05like Harold Perkins and some other, you know, defensive backs and talent in the front seven

01:10that could potentially stay with Baker calling the shots on the defensive side of the ball.

01:15And, again, Tulane was thought to go after Baker in a big way to replace John Summerall.

01:20So, you keep the DC, you keep that defensive talent.

01:24Now you could build around it in the transfer portal, something that Lane does better than

01:29anybody right now.

01:30Finding young talent, especially on the offensive side of the ball.

01:35Again, 9.5 win total this year for 26.

01:39Last year, it was only 8.5.

01:41The back-to-back years with Brian Kelly.

01:43So, an extra win or two is what Lane Kiffin brings you.

01:47And I can tell you this, they're not going to get kicked in the chops by the likes of Texas A&M

01:52losing by 21, 22 points at home.

01:55That's not going to happen again.

01:56Yeah, major upgrade.

01:57And also, it just shows the amount of money that LSU has available to them

02:00to pay a coach like Brian Kelly to leave and then sign a massive deal for a new coach.

02:04And that doesn't even, like we sometimes, Joe, just talk about, oh, he's getting $90 million.

02:07Do you know how much the rest of that coaching staff is going to make if you tack it onto him?

02:10It's unbelievable because coaches don't say, give me all the money,

02:13and then I have a small budget for my assistant coaches.

02:16Massive budget down there in LSU, no doubt about it, Joe.

02:19I just want to bring in, he's very close to Eddie O, too.

02:22And Eddie O, potentially, it said he would, you know, love a return.

02:26You bring that type of talent, another major recruiter.

02:29And Ed Ogeron, back to Baton Rouge, you're going to have a fantastic NFL-caliber type of staff,

02:35and they're going to hit the ground running week number one come 2026.

02:40Now, somebody leaves a program to go to another program.

02:43We're talking about there with Lane Kiffin, Joe,

02:45which means somebody has to fill in for Ole Miss.

02:47Pete Golding, named head coach there.

02:49This is one of those where I look at it and say, boy,

02:51you had one of the innovators in college football as your head coach in Lane Kiffin.

02:55Now you go defensive.

02:56How does that work?

02:57Ah, but, you know, is that a panic move?

03:01Well, it's not a panic move.

03:03I mean, he came from Nick Saban's tree as well.

03:05He was a former co-defense coordinator under Nick Saban.

03:09He's an older guy.

03:10He gets it.

03:11But, again, you know, the brains potentially of that offense, yeah, it was Kiffin,

03:15but it was Charlie Weiss Jr.

03:16Now, Charlie Weiss Jr., potentially, he's coaching in the playoff,

03:21then going to join potentially Lane as the OC in Baton Rouge.

03:26You know, if you're Ole Miss, would you have rolled the dice with Charlie Weiss Jr.,

03:30knowing young gun, no prior coaching experience, but he's the brains of the offense?

03:37Would you have done that?

03:38Like, I'm just saying, I like Golden, but it seems like, I don't put it this way.

03:45I don't think Golden is going to have the success that Brent Venables has had at Oklahoma.

03:51By the way, shout out Brent Venables as well, because this season, looking at his schedule,

03:55I'm like, he's ready to get himself fired.

03:56It's not even his fault at this point.

03:58We're running him out of town.

03:59Yeah.

03:59And I'll just say this.

04:01I'm a huge proponent of Oklahoma.

04:04People say, well, I hear it on all other networks.

04:07Oh, their offense stinks.

04:08Okay.

04:09Were we talking about Notre Dame's offense last year with Riley Leonard?

04:13We were talking about the national championship caliber defense.

04:17Were we talking about Penn State's offense with Drew Auer that couldn't hit a wide receiver

04:21in a college football playoff game?

04:23No, we were talking about the rushing attack and the defense led by Abdul.

04:28Carter and that front seven.

04:29So I don't want to hear it about Brent Venables.

04:31He knocked off four opponents that were top 25 caliber teams.

04:36He knocked off Michigan with Bryce Underwood when they were a top 25 team at his place,

04:40covered, knocked off Missouri, covered as a top 25 team, went to Knoxville and Tuscaloosa

04:47and knocked off both when his back was against the wall, Tennessee and Alabama.

04:52Those teams had a winning percentage of basically over 600, Donnie.

04:56Come on.

04:56I don't want to hear it.

04:57He's done a great job and he has a quarterback that if we're looking at, he's a gunslinger

05:02in a big spot.

05:03Would you bet on Matier?

05:04I would.

05:05I would.

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