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Where Lane Kiffin goes, chaos will surely follow. The new LSU Tigers head coach tried to convince fans that he’d turned over a new leaf at Ole Miss. But it’s now abundantly clear that is untrue.
Kiffin officially left Ole Miss high and dry on Sunday, threatening the Rebels along the way and using up years and built-up goodwill within a matter of days.
However, Kiffin’s toxic exit from Oxford is par for the course for the former boy genius, who has since become one of the best head coaches in the country. In fact, it would have been weird had Kiffin not left Oxford under dubious circumstances.
But where does Kiffin leaving Ole Miss for LSU rank in his lengthy list of hilarious head coaching departures? We’re counting them down.
Kiffin is now a 50-year-old seasoned vet in the coaching world. But it wasn’t that long ago that he was in his mid-30s and considered a can’t-miss young head coaching prospect in both the NFL and college.
He received his first head coaching job with the then-Oakland Raiders in 2007 at the age of 32. But Kiffin lasted less than two full seasons in Oakland before an absurd exit after a falling out with owner Al Davis.
Little did anybody know that would become the norm for a man who is now one of the most polarizing figures in all of American sports.
The one time Kiffin did things the perceived “right way’ was in 2019 when he left Florida Atlantic University to come to LSU.
Kiffin spent three seasons in Boca Raton, amassing an impressive 26-13 record, including a pair of double-digit-win seasons and Conference USA championships.
Following the second of those championships, Kiffin departed FAU for Ole Miss, having raised the Owls from the bottom of the conference to the top during his short stay.
After crashing out at his first three stops as a head coach, Kiffin landed at the best place he could have possibly ended up: The Nick Saban School for Retread Coaches Trying to Save Their Career.
Saban hired Kiffin as Alabama’s offensive coordinator in 2014 and the pairing immediately found immense success. Bama won the SEC championship all three seasons that Kiffin was in Tuscaloosa and claimed a national championship in 2015.
In 2016, Kiffin’s name began circulating for several head coaching jobs. He eventually accepted a job to become the new head coach at Florida Atlantic University. Kiffin remained on staff at Alabama and intended to finish the season before leaving for FAU.
However, on January 2, 2017, three weeks after accepting the Florida Atlantic job and just before the national championship game, Saban fired Kiffin, replacing him with Steve Sarkisian.
Saban reportedly was unhappy with Kiffin’s lack of focus on the game, instead turning his attention to...
