00:00He came out, and he says this, Lane did, about Nick Saban,
00:05about the AD coming there and saying,
00:09Lane Kiffin said that in an interview with USA Today's Blake Topmeyer,
00:17so this isn't something he just said, like, off the cuff,
00:20said that Alabama made Nick Saban retire
00:23when he was asked about his own departure from Ole Miss.
00:26And so this is the beauty of Lane.
00:29He said that the AD came out and said,
00:31this isn't a marriage that's going to last forever.
00:34You could wish it, but it isn't going to be a feel-good story.
00:38Those don't happen.
00:39Maybe Nick Saban stayed at Kiffin.
00:41Actually, it didn't, because right at the end, they made him retire.
00:45And he was talking about how there's no feel-good stories in college football,
00:48the way that he had to leave LSU,
00:51or the way he had to leave Ole Miss to go to LSU was tough.
00:54But then he just throws in there, just off the cuff,
00:57that Nick Saban was basically forced to retire at Alabama.
01:03No, this is foul.
01:07This sounds like a classic little boy who cried wolf.
01:10I mean, I can't really fathom this because it's Nick Saban.
01:14I can't imagine someone coming in and saying,
01:16hey, your time is sort of over here,
01:20just with everything that he's done for that program,
01:22putting them literally on top of college football for, gosh, 15, 20 years,
01:27and then that's kind of how it ends.
01:28I just don't believe that one bit,
01:30especially with everything that happened whenever they hired Kalen DeBoer.
01:34There was a ton of backlash.
01:35Alabama is still a solid team, and people still doubt DeBoer.
01:39So I just don't think that, I don't know, I don't think that happened.
01:43I don't like Lane anymore sometimes.
01:46He just does.
01:47Well, and it's funny he said this.
01:49He's asked about his own departure still, leaving Ole Miss.
01:52And he's like, well, there are no Cinderella stories,
01:54you know, Disney stories in college football.
01:56And I joke, there's a line out of Cocktail, Tom Cruise movie.
01:59I don't know if you've seen it.
02:00Have you seen Cocktail Steel?
02:01I've never heard of that movie.
02:03Well, it's like right after Top Gun.
02:05You need to watch it.
02:06It's really good.
02:08And it says everything ends badly or else it wouldn't end.
02:11And I don't know if that's always true.
02:13I reference it sometimes.
02:17But that's kind of how it always is in college athletics.
02:20Like nobody ever really goes out the way they want to.
02:23And even when they try to, sometimes it doesn't,
02:25the story doesn't get a chance to get written the way that you want.
02:28And so I think Lane was saying, well, I wanted to coach at Ole Miss.
02:31I wanted to finish up and do the right things by them.
02:35They just wouldn't let me.
02:36Well, dude, you were going to LSU and you're going to try to take most of your players with you.
02:40So I get why they were doing, while they were doing that.
02:43They let you coach as long as you could.
02:45And then once you decided like, hey, LSU is like, you got to start doing this for us.
02:49We can't have you poach our players.
02:51I found it amazing that he threw that Nick Saban reference to where he was like forced out, essentially.
03:02Which publicly, I don't know if he's trying to take the heat off of him.
03:07Steal it, like force it back onto the Alabama fan base.
03:10Like directed at their athletic director and make him look like a better, like, hey, I'm a good guy because
03:15I didn't fire Nick Saban.
03:16And look at this AD who fired the winningest coach in college football history, basically.
03:20Like get on to him.
03:22But it's, I could see it being true, maybe.
03:29But Nick was still like at the top of his game at that point.
03:32And so in like two or three years, I could have seen it.
03:34I mean, he was in his early 70s.
03:36But it just doesn't really make all that intuitive sense that that would happen.
03:41And then for Lane to just throw it out there, like, I'm wondering if he's heard that or if he's
03:46just wildly speculating on it.
03:48I think he's just deflecting.
03:49It's that he's had a lot of heat on him recently.
03:52He's just trying to get the heat off of him.
03:54Get on Alabama.
03:55It seems like all these SEC schools are kind of throwing shade at one another.
03:59I think it's just another instance where Lane Kiffin at LSU is trying to, I guess, participate in that and
04:05throw a little shade at Alabama.
04:06And just get the story away from Lane Kiffin so he doesn't have to talk more and just dig himself
04:12a deeper hole.
04:14It honestly is it.
04:15Just get the story away from Lane.
04:17And that's kind of what it feels like what he does sometimes.
04:21Just get the story away from Lane.
04:23I will say something that will deflect all of this.
04:28And then nobody can sit there and come back at me.
04:33And nobody can sit there and do whatever.
04:35But, I mean, he was talking about that, between that, the Oxford comments.
04:39So, you think about the things that Lane said this year, this offseason.
04:42You know, talking about the Oxford comments, you know, and the racism there.
04:48And I was saying this about Nick Saban.
04:49I'm sure he, oh, the recruiting situation where he was trying to poach the guy from Clemson.
04:55Like, he's been embroiled still right at the heart of, like, some of the biggest things.
05:00And I don't know how much steam this is going to get picked up.
05:02Like, I just saw it either late last night or this morning.
05:06Like, man, this is something we've got to talk about.
05:07Lane's alleging that they forced out Saban.
05:10Forced out the winningest coach in college football.
05:12And all the fans now want to say fire DeBoer and bring back Saban.
05:15And so, by him doing that, I mean, they're probably blowing up the voicemail at the AD's office right now
05:25saying,
05:25you push this guy out here for Caelan DeBoer?
05:27And Caelan DeBoer has been a pretty good coach.
05:29But he hadn't been Nick Saban.
05:31And everybody there knows he hadn't been Nick Saban.
05:34And I just, the trolling status of him.
05:37I guess I told you, I used to always really like Lane Kiffin.
05:41And I found his, like, little quirks funny and interesting.
05:44But, like, with this, talking about another man's business and retirement,
05:47this might be the final straw where I'm like, all right, Lane.
05:51Like, I don't know if I can really be your guy anymore and support you.
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